South Carolina Civil War Documents – 1861-1865

Confederate States of America

• Ordinance of Secession - 1860
  

• Provisional Constitution of the Confederate States of America - 1861
  

• Constitution of the Confederate States of America - 1861
  –  Additional information about CSA Constitution
  

• Letter from General Simons of the 4th Brigade, SC Militia to SC Governor Pickens to - January 1, 1861 - scroll down for summary
  

• Ironclad attack on Fort Sumter - April 7, 1863
  –  Report of General Roswell Ripley
  –  Report of Alfred Rhett, 1st SC Artillery
  

• Documents relating to Florence Stockade
  –  Daniel Chandler letter - Prison Camp, Florence, South Carolina - December 24, 1864
  

• Johnson's Island Autograph Book of Lt. Samuel Dibble - names and hometowns of 221 Confederate prisoners of war
  

• Sketch of the War Record of the Edisto Rifles, 1861-1865 - William Valmore Izlar
  

• William Drayton Rutherford Papers - 1858-1894 - University of South Carolina
  

United States of America

• Union Army Code of Conduct - Civil War - 1861-1865
  

• Casualty list of the 54th Massachusetts - Fort Wagner, South Carolina - July 18, 1863
  

• Documents relating to Florence Stockade
  –  David G. James's - Recollections of Florence, South Carolina, stockade - September 1864
  

• James Laughlin Orr diary - 1865