Upcountry South Carolina goes to war

By Melissa Walker

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

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