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Title: Orderly book of the 2nd South Carolina Regiment, 1778, Aug. 14 - 1779, Dec. 28
Creator: Marion, Francis, 1732-1795, author
Contributor: Snowden, Yates, 1858-1933, former owner
Marion, Francis, 1732-1795
Motte, Isaac, -1795
Date Created and/or Issued: 1778
1779
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Manuscripts
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Description: Regimental orderly book of the 2nd South Carolina regiment, covering the period from Aug. 14, 1778 through Dec. 28, 1779. Note on the inner front cover: "Yates Snowden, 1877."
The 2nd South Carolina was organized in summer 1775 at Charleston to consist of ten companies from eastern South Carolina. On Nov. 4, 1775, it was adopted into the Continental Army and assigned to Southern Department. Until Francis Marion took over the command of the regiment on Sept. 23, 1778, it had been under command of William Moultrie (June 1775 - Sept. 1776 and Isaac Motte (Sept. 1776- Sept. 1778).
Extent: 133 leaves, 20 cm., bound volume
Identifier: mssHM 625
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll7/id/22188
Language: English
Subject: Marion, Francis, 1732-1795--Archives
Motte, Isaac, d. 1795
Moultrie, William, 1730-1805
United States. Continental Army--Archives
United States. Continental Army--History--Sources
United States. Continental Army. South Carolina Regiment, 2nd--Archives
Savannah (Ga.)--History--Siege, 1779--Sources
South Carolina--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Sources
United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Sources
United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--American forces--Sources
United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Regimental histories--South Carolina--Sources
Military records United States Revolution, 1775-1783
Orderly books United States Revolution, 1775-1783
Source: Orderly Books of the American Revolution.
Manuscripts, Huntington Digital Library

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