Letter from John Coles Singleton, Columbia SC, to daughters, Mary and Rebecca, Charlottesville, VA. Singleton writes of an elaborate ceremony honoring the Palmetto Regiment of South Carolina volunteers for their service in the Mexican War. (Mary Singleton would later wed Robert W. Barnwell). August 1, 1848.
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