Manuscripts Department
           Library of the University of North Carolina
                         at Chapel Hill

                 SOUTHERN HISTORICAL COLLECTION

                             #2567-z
                 WALLACE AND GAGE FAMILY PAPERS
                            Inventory

Abstract:      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.

Online Catalog Terms:
   Afro-American politicians--History--19th century.
   Bennett, Samuel H., fl. 1878.
   Estates (Law)--South Carolina.
   Gage family.
   Ku-Klux Klan (1866-1869)--Trials, litigation, etc.
   Reconstruction--South Carolina.
   Scrapbooks--South Carolina.
   United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Veterans.
   Wallace, Daniel, 1801-1859.
   Wallace, William Henry, 1827-1901.
   Wallace family.

Size:  16 items (1 folder).

Provenance:    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.

Access:        No restrictions.  In part, microfilm.

Processing Note:   This collection was processed with support
                   from the Randleigh Foundation Trust.  

Copyright:     Retained by the authors of items in these papers,
               or their descendants, as stipulated by United
               States copyright law.