"A color scan of a scrapbook page with a letter and annotation. The letter from the Bureau written by Major J.E. Cornelius orders Everson to James Island, SC to complete a census focusing on ability and poverty. Everson is to settle the claims of Freed people holding possessory titles for land on the island and instruct those Freed people who have not contracted work to do so or they must leave. Everson's annotation mentions that a full report and the proceedings regarding the ""settlement of these 'land titles' under which freedmen had located '40 acres for each adult"" under Sherman's order No. 15 and refugees could be found in his book of retained copies of reports."
Result found on the following page of: Erastus Everson Diary 1861-1893
"A scrapbook page with copies of two letters and two endorsements. The first letter is from Everson to H.W. Smith A.A. General regarding validity of land titles held on Royall Plantation. It is unclear to Everson whether or not, under ""Special Field orders. No. 15,"" individuals who hold titles but do not live on the land are considered to be holding valid land titles. In effect, can parties hold titles by proxy? This is a common problem. The endorsement response from Bvt Major General Robert Kingston Scott and H.W. Smith declares that titles cannot be held by proxy, individuals must be living on the land for the title to be valid. The second letter from Everson to Smith concerns an incorrect last name on a land title and questions whether or not the title is still valid. The endorsement confirms that it is. "
Result found on the following page of: Erastus Everson Diary 1861-1893
A color scan of a scrapbook page with two letters from Major J.E. Cornelius. The first informs Everson that he is to refer to general order No. 9 Head Quarters Assistant Commissioner of Bureau for South Carolina for his conduct while on James Island. Cornelius requests a detailed report of action taken so far by military authorities with regard to General Sherman's Special Field order No. 15 in removing Freedmen from lands and also sick Freedmen and women from hospitals. The second letter mentions that Cornelius has sent Lieutenant Green to Charleston for rations for four hundred people and if Everson can find him he may retain some for people on James Island.
Result found on the following page of: Erastus Everson Diary 1861-1893
A color scan of a scrapbook page with a letter and an annotation. The letter from H.W. Smith discusses land and housing disputes and restoration. Everson's annotation discusses how, with restoration of plantations, the door has been opened for the settlement of land titles and job opportunities--which many freedmen refused.
Result found on the following page of: Erastus Everson Diary 1861-1893
A color scan of a scrapbook page with a letter, endorsement and Circular. The letter is a copy from Everson to Major H.W. Smith on the subject of Mr. Clark, his restored plantation, and the matter of removing a freedman from the plantation. The endorsement from Brevet Major General Robert Kingston Scott and H.W. Smith and calls for his removal after being paid for all work done that season. The Circular calls for statements regarding matters of property, clothing, camp and Garrison Equipage. [The remainder of the circular is pasted to the page and is unreadable.]
Result found on the following page of: Erastus Everson Diary 1861-1893
"A color scan of a scrapbook page with two copies of letters from Everson and two Endorsements from Brevet Major General Robert Kingston Scott and H.W. Smith on the matters of labor and land disputes on Lawton Plantation, Clark Plantation and Mullichamp Plantation while considering ""Special Field orders. No. 15"" issued by General William Sherman."
Result found on the following page of: Erastus Everson Diary 1861-1893
"A color scan of a scrapbook page with a special order, copy of a letter, an endorsement and annotations by Everson. The special order from the Bureau appoints Major J.E. Cornelius as Acting Sub Assistant Commissioner for Johns, James, Wadmalaw, Edisto, Morris and Folly Islands thereby relieving James Chaplin Beecher. Everson is to report immediately for instructions. There is an annotation next to the order where Everson writes of Beecher's patriotism;being a chaplain in the Navy in China prior to the war;his half-brother Henry Ward Beecher; Plymouth Church Chapel; and his suicide. The correspondence is from Everson to Major H.W. Smith A.A. General regarding a land dispute on James Island. Everson included an annotation that this and a few additional cases are included to show the murkiness of ""Special Field orders. No. 15"" issued by General William Sherman. The endorsement is by order of Brevet Major General Robert Kingston Scott and H.W. Smith deeming a land title not legal. "
Result found on the following page of: Erastus Everson Diary 1861-1893
A color scan of a scrapbook page with two letters. The first is from the Bureau and is a request for a report of a plantation owned by J.C. Seabrook. The second letter requests that Everson visit James Island because there are some cases that need his help like labor disputes on newly-restored Clark Plantation. There is a brief annotation by Everson mentioning a Captain [William A. ?] Nerland who died as Clerk of Courts in Barnwell County, SC about 1877; he had been elected in the Reconstruction after state government.
