Milling papers
Subtitle: personal correspondence, 1861-1864
By: Milling, James S.
Contributors: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project); University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library
Edition: Electronic ed.
Publisher: Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Chapel Hill, N.C.]
Language: eng
Subjects: Agriculture; History; Slavery; Plantation life; Social life and customs; Social conditions; Personal narratives; Confederate Personal narratives
Other titles: Southern homefront, 1861-1865.
Work titles: Papers
Description: Letters written to James Milling in Louisiana from relatives and friends, including his father, David, in Fairfield District, S.C., and his wife near Camden, S.C.. Chief topics include plantation life and slave relations; the South Carolina home front during the Civil War; and business and agriculture concerns during the Civil War.
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This electronic edition is part of the UNC-CH digitization project's database, Documenting the American South. It is part of the collection The Southern homefront, 1861-1865.

Text transcribed and annotated by Kristofer Ray. Text encoded by Christie Mawhinney and Natalia Smith.

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Transcribed from: Papers, 1852-1883. Transcript of selected personal correspondence 1861-1864. Originals (#3583) are in the Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services supported the electronic publication of this title.

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Physician and planter in Fairfield District, S.C. In 1859, Milling moved his slaves to a plantation in Bossier Parish, La., where he spent much of his time while his wife (and cousin) Mary W. Milling and their children remained with her family near Camden, S.C. In 1866, Mary and the children moved to Louisiana.
Table of contents: title: Business and agriculture; title: Homefront; title: Military and politics.