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LAW OFFICE
18 & 20 Broad St.
JOS. W. BARNWELL.
Charleston, South Carolina February 24th.1908,
Professor A.C, Moore,
University of S.C.
Columbia, S.C.
Dear Sir:-
I have the pleasure of sending you herewith the rucord
of Mr. Henry Tresoott, a second honor man of 1814, and the father
of Mr. William Henry Tresoott, one of our most distinguished writers, who was, however, a Charleston College man. I an trying to
get the record of his Brother George, but the Tresoott family
seem to know very little of him. However, I find out that he was
a gr-aduate of West Point in 1813, and it may be that in the published histories of the Academy, I can find a record of his life.
I also send you a record of \Xr, Heyward Manigault. He died
without, isstie, and it does not seem possible to find the day and
month of his birth. If I oan ever discover it, I will send it to
you.
There really seems to be some fatality about the publication
of your lists of students who died in Confederate service.
In the News and Courier of this morning appears r-he record of
my Brother William Finley Barnwell. You state that his Mother
was "Catherine Osborn". Her name was CATHARINE OSBORN BARNWELL.
Now not only is this a mistake, but it so happens that when I
sent you some years ago the record of one of my Brothers, and
that of one of my cousins, the son of Hon. R.W, Barnwell, and wrote
out the names of their Mothers, as CATHARINE OSBORN BARNWELL,
and ELIZA BARNWELL respectively, you wrote me, or your Assistant
wrote me under your name, calling my attention to the fact that