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Hathi Trust
E-text of books, many are full-text with no restrictions. Excellent source for books published after conflicts prior to 1950. Largest collection is pre-1923. Search by topic or keyword to locate books. Also includes government reports.

Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)

More than 180,000 English-language and foreign-language books, pamphlets and broadsides in all subjects from the United Kingdom and the Americas, between 1701 and 1800.

Featured Print and Microfilm Library Materials

Documents of the American Revolution: 1770-1783
Offsite Storage Facility ; E203 .G68 1972 (21 volumes) Contains summaries and full text of surviving correspondence between the Colonial Office in Great Britain and the North American colonies in the years preceding and during the American Revolution.
Records of ante-bellum southern plantations [microform] : series B. selections from the South Carolina Historical Society
Records and correspondence from reels 1-3. Thomas Porcher Ravenel papers -- reel 4. Thomas Porcher Ravenel papers (cont.). Henry Ravenel papers -- reel 5. Thomas Walter Peyre plantation journal. Samuel Barker...

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estate account books. Gourdin-Gaillard family papers -- reel 6. Gourdin-Gaillard family papers (cont.) -- reel 7. Gourdin-Gaillard family papers (cont.). "Richmond" Overseer journal -- reel 8. Alonzo White slave auction book. John B. Milliken plantation journals. Paul D. Weston papers -- reel 9. Paul D. Weston papers (cont.). John Sparkman plantation book. Joshua John Ward plantation journals. Dr. Andrew Hasell medical account book. Reverend Alexander Glennie parish diary. Thomas Aston Coffin plantation book. Daniel Webb plantation book -- reel 10. Daniel Webb plantation book (cont.). Glover family papers.
War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies
Online at Making of America. Print copies in Offsite Storage E470 .U6 1985.
Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from South Carolina
Digitized service records from the National Archives.

Films on Demand

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