South Carolina Digital Collections Adds Civil War Documents You’ve Most Likely Never Heard of

If you’re a researcher interested in South Carolina research, you most likely very familiar with the collections at the South Carolina State Library. Of late they have been working with the Relic Room to scan and digitize hundreds of documents from the Colin J. McRae Papers, Huse Audit Series. Huse was a Confederate purchasing agent for the breakaway states’ Ordinance Department in Britain. The collection contains original invoices and correspondences that list goods and services purchased from England by the Confederate military.

Following is a teaser from an article posted August 28, 2018 at 1063word.radio.com:

This is the first digitization project the library has done for the Relic Room…

So far, about 600 items have been scanned. Dame said they are about halfway through the process. About 170 documents are currently online…

This is one of dozens of collections the library has digitized for state agencies and curated, which can be viewed for free. Click here to see the South Carolina Digital Library.

Read the full article.

Thanks to ResearchBuzz for the heads-up.