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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Wallace and Gage Family Papers #2567-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from and lent for filming by Mrs. Morris Bush of Birmingham, Ala., in November 1943, and Mrs. D. H. Wallace of Greenville, S.C., in October 1954.

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• African American politicians--History--19th century.
• Bennett, Samuel H., fl. 1878.
• Estates (Law)--South Carolina.
• Gage family.
• Ku Klux Klan (19th cent.)--Trials, litigation, etc.
• Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)--South Carolina.
• Scrapbooks--South Carolina.
• United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Veterans.
• Wallace family.
• Wallace, Daniel, d. 1859.
• Wallace, William Henry, 1827-1901.

Chiefly papers of William Henry Wallace (1827-1901) of Union County, S.C., Confederate brigadier general and state legislator, pertaining to the estate of his father, Daniel Wallace (1801-1859), U.S. representative, 1848-1853, and to Reconstruction, including a letter, 1878, about the race question in South Carolina, from Samuel H. Bennett, a black politician. Also included are an undated circular regarding the trial of reputed members of the Ku Klux Klan under anti-Klan laws; a scrapbook containing clippings; and other items pertaining to Confederate veterans, to members of the Wallace and Gage families, and to other topics.