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The Lynches of South Carolina : from Reconstruction to Redemption /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lynch (Family : 1818- (Author)
Other Authors: Curran, Robert Emmett (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Knoxville : The University of Tennessee Press, [2026]
Edition:First edition.
Series:Voices of the Civil War series
Subjects:
Lynch (Family : > 1818- : > Lynch, Patrick Neison, 1817-1882) > Correspondence.
Lynch family > Correspondence.
Catholics > South Carolina > History > 19th century.
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) > South Carolina.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / Michael P. Gray
  • Lynch Family Genealogy
  • "Everything Starts Anew Now": January-May 1866
  • "Practice Free, Times Hard, Money Very Scarce and Getting Scarcer": June-December 1866
  • "In All Probability This Will Never Be a State Again but Be Part of a Kingdom": January-June 1867
  • "You Have No Idea of the Scarcity of Money Here": July-December 1867
  • "These Attacks I Think Indicate Consumption": January-June 1868
  • "The Rub with Us Now Is Wether We Can Get the Necessaries of Life": July-December 1868
  • "I Feel as if I Were in the Embrace of a Boa Constrictor": January-June 1869
  • "Sr Borgia Believes the World Is Near Its End": July-December 1869
  • "Rev Dr Meriwether Hopes It Is Not True You Have Not Gone for the Immediate Definition": January-June 1870
  • "No Man Seems to Know Whether He Is Standing on His Heels or His Head": July-December 1870
  • "How Long, O Lord, How Long?" January-June 1871
  • "It Looks Like Antebellum Times": July-December 1871
  • "To Me It Appears More Difficult to Regain Than to Have First Gained": January-June 1872
  • "The Idea of a Religious Invoking a Malediction on the Head of Anyone!" July-December 1872
  • "The Taxes Seem to Carry Everything Before Them!" January-June 1873
  • "Our Privations Are So Great That I Think Our Enemies Would Take Pity on Us" : July-December 1873
  • "I Am at the Mercy of Creditors": January-June 1874
  • "The Wind Seems to Be Veering Now": July-December 1874
  • "Our Blessed Little Angel Breathed Her Last on Monday Morning": January-June 1875
  • "Our Poor Hearts Are Broken": July-December 1875
  • "No One Thinks Her Converted": January-June 1876
  • "Very Much Enthusiasm Prevails for the Success of the Democracy": July-December 1876
  • "God Is Good!" January-June 1877
  • "Everybody Seems Pleased with the Return of Home Rule": July-December 1877
  • "There Is No Mistake That Farming Is Ever a Failure": January-June 1878
  • "When You Shall Live at Home, Your Diocess Will Become a Perfect Hotbed of Catholicity": July-December 1878
  • "This Deprives Me of the Last Frail Plant I Had to Lean On for the Support of My Family": January-June 1879
  • "Just Now Everything Looks Gloomy": July-December 1879
  • "I Fear I Am Lost in the Labyrinth": January-June 1880
  • "The Pope Did Not Do Right Towards Bishop Lynch": July-December 1880
  • "The House Would Fall Down If You Had Not Been Its Prop and Support": 1881-1882.