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Mary Crawford Hill McCants Papers

Mary Crawford Hill McCants

出版	1850
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=pFzGtQEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

Letters written to Mary Crawford from William Mays Hill at Tanglewood Plantation in Edgefield District (S.C.) also express his anxiety about smallpox in Columbia while updating his fiancé on war preparations in that region of the state. On 20 December 1860, the day South Carolina seceded, Hill attended a "large war meeting of all the neighbors," and reported that "Edgefield has one thousand men ready for the field & will be reviewed in a few days by the Gov[ernor]." On 4 January 1861, while leaving Edgefield District (S.C.) for Columbia to be married, he commented on the bellicose mood of the community, which felt "very warist, hearing the drum & seeing the artillery company leave for Charleston," but also apprehensive that they were about to begin their life together in such a "trying time ... Smallpox, war, &c., &c."