Living a Big War in a Small Place: Spartanburg, South Carolina, during the Confederacy

Index

“12 We Wonders,” 84; full text of, 89–90 13th Regiment, 17 5th Regiment, 16 Abbotts, Henry, 70 abolitionists, 7, 9 Aiken, South Carolina, 91 Alderman, Mr., 41 Allen, Chain, 70 Alley, Henry, 14 Alston, South Carolina, 80 “An Act for the Better Ordering and Governing Negroes and other Slaves in this Province,” 68 Anderson [slave], 53 Anderson District, 11 Anderson, F. B., 70 Ann [slave], 75 arson, 57, 61, 62, 63, 64 Bennet, Buck, 22 Beverly, W. D., 71 Bivings, A. W., 70 Bivingsville cotton mill, 13; announcement on selling yarn, 35; sells to highest bidder, 34 Blake, William Kennedy, 70, 91; on foraging, 92; on village militia group, 14–15; on Union soldiers in Spartanburg, 40–43 Blake, Willie, 40 Bob [free person of color], 57 Bobo, Simpson, 8, 16, 67 Bomar, John, 34, 35 Boney, 77 Bonner, B., publishes notice on destitute soldier’s families, 29 Boyce, Rev. James P., 38, 39 Boyd, Dr., 14, 15 Boyd, J. J., 70 Bragg, Braxton, 30 Broad River, 3, 81 Brockman Guard, 17 Brockman, Benjamin, 16 Brockman, Capt., 17 Brutus, 84, 88, 90 Bumpus, A., 71 Burgess, Polly, 52 Caesar, Julius, 88 Camden, South Carolina, 81, 91, 97 Camp Johnson, 56 Camp, William, 12 Cannon, Gabriel, 8 Capel, 27 Capers, Mr., 15 Capers, T. L., 27 Carlisle, James H., 8 Carolina Spartan, 16; advertisement for salt in, 31–32; defends manufacturers, 33–34; defends slaves having skilled jobs, 49; letter to defends Congressman Farrow, 38; on distillation of grain, 32; on Dr. G. H. King, 84; on fifth column movements, 12–14, 86, 100; on growing food, 31; on Negro misconduct, 47; on possible slave insurrections, 13; on slave gift for soldiers, 24; on speculation, 33; on supplies for soldiers, 23; on slave insurrection, 45; on iNdex 114 Index Carolina Spartan (continued) slave support for Confederacy, 24; on trial of Benjamin Finch, 85–86; publishes list of companies from Spartanburg in 1861, 16; publishes sales of slaves from 1864, 54, 97; publishes sentences of Magistrates and Freeholders Court from 1864, 54; regularly publishes lists of soldiers killed during 1861, 17 Carpenter, J. Q., 17 Carter, J. G., 70 Cash, Briant, 70 Catherine [slave], chapter five; petition on behalf of, 62; sentence of, 62; trial of, 61–62 Chancellorsville, 16, 38 Chapin house, 40 Charleston, South Carolina, 17, 19, 38, 91, 93, 97; effort in to ban Negroes from skilled jobs, 49 Charlotte, North Carolina, 18 Chattanooga, Tennessee, 28, 30 Cheraw, South Carolina, 97 Cherokee County, 3 Cherokee Guard, 17 Chester, South Carolina, 91 Choice, William, 70 Christene [slave], 56 Church Street, 40, 41 churches, distribution of, 7. See also Spartanburg District Clay, Henry, 8 Cleveland, B., on tax in kind, 28–29 Cleveland, J. B., 54, 70 Cleveland, Mrs. Jesse, 24 Co. K, 3rd Regiment, SCV, 84 Cole, Dick, 41 Colleton District, 93 Columbia, South Carolina, 23, 39, 62, 80, 91, 97 Commons House of Assembly, 68 Company O, 17 Compton, W. P., 17 Confederacy, 1; government of blamed for troubles, 1, 76; money of worthless, 32; need for home made goods in, 22; recognition of, 30; reluctance of inhabitants to think in terms of the community, 29; military strategy of, 36–37 Confederate bonds, 6 Confederate Congress, passes conscription law, 20; passes Pres. Davis’s 1863 austerity measures, 39; second election of, 38; urges people not to grow cotton, 30 Confederate government, 13, 76. See also Confederacy conscription law, age requirements of, 20 Converse College, 93 Converse, Dexter, 13, 34 cotton, grown on small farms, 6; sea island, 3; short staple, 3 Cowpens, battle of, 3 Curtis, William, 8 Davis, Jefferson, 40; opposition to, 8, 39; urges people to not grow cotton, 31 Dean, Dr., 80, 81 Dean, Hosea J., 8 Democratic Party, 8 Deserters 1, 11; increase of, 36 Donaldson, Anna, on conditions at Spartanburg Female College, 92 Duncan, D. R., 17 DuPre, Warren Prof., 14, 66, 70 Edom [Harris slave], 75 Edwards, Billy, 22 Edwards, Oliver E., 8, 16, 17 Elford, J. M., on tax in kind, 28–29 Elihu [slave], 19 Eliphus [Harris slave], 78, 80 England, 30 Falk, Edgar, 56 Fanning, Fred, 70 Index 115 Farrow, James, 8, 15; represents fifth congressional district, 38 Farrow, T. Stobo, 70 Farnandez, Lemuel, 65, 70 Fifth congressional district, 38–39 Finch, Benjamin, 33, 84; trial of, 36 Finger, Joseph, 8 Fingerville, South Carolina, 14 Finley, D. G., 71 First Baptist Church, 37 Fleming, W. H., 70...