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Date:: 1864
Description:: List of volunteer firefighters of city engine number 6, including their names, ages, description, occupation, and residence. Donated to the Charleston Museum by Charles Pequette, 1925

Date:: 1864
Description:: List of volunteer firefighters of city engine number 7, including their names, ages, description, occupation, and residence. This copy is missing one name due to a tear in the page, but the information is available in the second copy. Donated to the Charleston Museum by Charles Pequette, 1925

Date:: 1864
Description:: List of volunteer firefighters of city engine number 7, including their names, ages, description, occupation, and residence. This copy is alphabetized, but omits most of the firefighters' full first names. Donated to the Charleston Museum by Charles Pequette, 1925

Date:: 1864
Description:: List of volunteer firefighters of the city's Hook and Ladder Company, including their names, ages, description, occupation, and residence. Donated to the Charleston Museum by Charles Pequette, 1925

Date:: 1864
Description:: List of volunteer firefighters of city engine number 5, including their names, ages, description, and occupation. This copy does not include the firefighters' street of residence. See Copy 2. Donated to the Charleston Museum by Charles Pequette, 1925

Date:: 1864
Description:: List of volunteer firefighters of city engine number 6, including their names, ages, description, occupation, and residence. Donated to the Charleston Museum by Charles Pequette, 1925

Date:: 1864
Description:: Caption: 'Quarters of the Union officers exposed to the Federal fire in Charleston.--sketched by one of the Officers.--[see page 550.]' [full date August 27, 1864.]

Date:: 1864
Description:: List of volunteer firefighters of city engine number 9, including their names, ages, description, occupation, and residence. Donated to the Charleston Museum by Charles Pequette, 1925

Date:: 1864
Description:: Caption: 'Diagram of monitor, "Weehawken," sunk in Charleston Harbor, December 6, 1863.--[see next page.] a. Overhang protecting propeller.--b. Rudder.--c. Hatches.--d. Engineer's store-room.--e. Engine-room.--f. Fire-room.--g. Boilers.--h. Coal-bunker.--i. Turret-chamber.--k. Turret.--l. Pilot-house.--m. Men's quarters.--n. Officers' quarters.--o. Captain's cabin.--p. Anchor-chamber.--r. Ventilator.--s. Anchor-well.--t. Ram.--u. Lockers for stores.--v. Smoke stack.--1,2,3,4,5. Water-tight bulkheads.' [full date January 2, 1864.]

Date:: 1864
Description:: Kate Ferguson, wife of Samuel Wragg Ferguson, writes to her husband's godmother. This undated letter was apparently written after Samuel Ferguson's promotion to brigadier general in the Confederate army. She relates how "Ferguson's command is now resting from his last terrible raid" and that "Capt Nugent and William Barker have not yet returned from Deer Creek." 4p.

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