A scrapbook by Erastus W. Everson (1837-1897) documenting his time spent serving in the Union Army during the American Civil War (1861- 1865); the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands during the American Reconstruction Period (1865-1877); as a librarian at the University of South Carolina and a newspaper editor.
On the back of a Suffolk County Deputy Sheriffs' Office Court House document, a description of news was given that relate to the panic after President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated on April 14, 1865.
