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 | | Letters are detailed and clear, containing useful insights into 19-century political and family life, particularly with regard to the political, military, and domestic aspects of the Civil War and Reconstruction. |
 | | Other family events discussed in these letters include the deaths of Corinne Lawton and Alexander James Lawton in 1877, the wedding of Louise Lawton to L. Mackall in 1878, the importing of a sculpted monument by Benedetto Civiletti in 1879 (see photographs in Series 6), and A. Lawton, Jr.'s 1882 marriage to Daisy Beckwith. |
 | | The plantation documented in the journal was at Blackswamp, near Robertville, in St. Peter's Parish, Beaufort District, S.C. Entries in the journal are concise, yet detailed, and describe activities on the plantation Lawton ran in cooperation with his father and then with his mother, on which they raised cotton, rice, and corn. |
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