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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:: 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: 'Christian IX, Present King of Denmark.--[see next page.]' [full date January 2, 1864.]

Date:: 1864
Description:: Caption: 'Camp of the New York One Hundred and Third before Charleston.--from a sketch by Colonel W. Heine.--[see page 85.]' [February 6, 1864.]

Date:: 1864
Description:: Caption: 'The siege of Petersburg--the Fifth Corps awaiting the order to advance, July 30th, 1864.'

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:: 1864 Letter from James B. Heyward to Frank Myers concerning an ongoing dispute about a rental agreement and the use of present currency. 1p.

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.

Date:: 1864
Description:: 1864 Letter to Mr. James B. Heyward from F.M. Fickling, representing Mr. Frank Myers, concerning rental payment for property that Heyward is leasing from Myers. The letter references the ongoing dispute between Heyward and Myers concerning the use of Confederate currency to pay the rent. 2p.

Date:: 1864
Description:: Three receipts for confederate bonds issued to the holder under the "Act to reduce the Currency." All of the receipts are notarized on the reverse and two of them are, in return, transferred to pay taxes. 6p.

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