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Ramsay retreats to Columbia.
Previously, at the bar of the hotel, I received
a letter from Ramsay, dated yesterday, and
evidently written in a hurried, flurried manner.
It commenced by requesting me not to men-
tion its contents to any one stated that last
evening he had received notice that he had better
go North added that Carlyle knew nothing
about this that he (Ramsay) had sent to some
English friends in Philadelphia to send him
some guarantees that he had sent to F to
get him to write saying that he declined
writing for the Press that the fellow had
promised to say nothing about it to anyone,
if he made his record all right, but after
my telling him, this morning about a man
getting tarred and featheredx he had deter-
mined to go to Columbia until the replies came
that he hoped to be back on Wednesday
furthermore asking me to make excuses at
dinner-time, to say he had a letter cal-
ling him to Columbia hoping that Mixer
wouldn t charge him while he was away
saying that, should they want his room, would
I have his trunk lifted into mine reitera-
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| Title: | Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries, Volume Fifteen: page one hundred and fifty-four |
| Description: | Regarding Ramsay leaving Charleston. |
| Date: | 1861-02-10 |
| Subject: | Carlyle; Gunn, Thomas Butler; Mixer; Journalism; Ramsay, Russell (Buckstone) |
| Coverage (City/State): | [Charleston, South Carolina]; Columbia, [South Carolina]; Philadelphia, [Pennsylvania] |
| Scan Date: | 2010-05-20 |
| Volume |
| Title: | Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries, Volume Fifteen |
| Description: | Describes Gunn's experience as a correspondent for ""The New York Evening Post"" in Charleston, South Carolina, in the aftermath of South Carolina's secession from the federal government, including a conflict between A.H. Colt and Mr. Woodward, a visit to Sullivan's Island, John Mitchel's tale of assisting with the lynching of an abolitionist, attending a celebration in honor of Benjamin Mordecai, Will Waud's arrival in Charleston, the scene in Charleston the day the ''Star of the West'' was fired upon by the Morris Island battery, pistol and rifle practice with various Charlestonians, a rumor in New York about his having been tarred and feathered in Charleston, a visit to the quarters of the ''Richland Rifles,'' witnessing a slave auction, and a visit to Colonel Bull's home. |
| Subject: | Boardinghouses; Books and reading; Civil War; Gunn, Thomas Butler; Journalism; Military; Publishers and publishing; Secession; Slavery; Slaves; Travel |
| Coverage (City/State): | New York, New York; Charleston, South Carolina |
| Note: | Thomas Butler Gunn was born February 15, 1826, in Banbury, England, and came to New York in 1849. During the Civil War he worked as a correspondent for the New York Tribune and the New York Evening Post. He returned to England in 1863, and died in Birmingham in April 1903. The collection includes twenty-one volumes of his diaries, including newspaper clippings, letters, photographs, sketches, and various other items inserted by Gunn. Diary entries date from July 7, 1849, to April 7, 1863, and include his experiences with the New York publishing and literary world, his descriptions of boarding houses, his travels throughout the United States, and his experiences traveling with the Federal army as a Civil War correspondent. |
| Publisher: | Missouri History Museum |
| Rights: | Copyright 2010 Missouri History Museum. |
| Source: | Page images, transcriptions, and metadata of the Thomas Butler Gunn diaries have been provided by the Missouri History Museum. |
