Upcountry South Carolina goes to war

Description:

Chronicles through correspondence the lives and concerns of prominent families in piedmont South Carolina during the late-antebellum and Civil War eras. The 124 letters presented here were written by members of the Anderson, Brockman, and Moore families of Spartanburg County, neighboring planter-class families united by their shared Scots-Irish ancestry and their membership at Nazareth Presbyterian Church. --from publisher description

subjects: Correspondence,  Sources,  Country life,  Social conditions,  Agriculture,  Rural families,  History,  Moore family,  Country life, united states,  Agriculture, united states, history,  Spartanburg county (s.c.),  South carolina, history, sources,  South carolina, social conditions

People: Moore family,  Anderson family,  Brockman family

Places: South Carolina,  Spartanburg County,  Spartanburg County (S.C.),  History

Times: Civil War, 1861-1865,  19th century