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Floride Elizabeth Clemson (December 29, 1842 – July 23, 1871) was the daughter of Clemson University founder Thomas Green Clemson, and the granddaughter of former Vice President John C. Calhoun and his wife, Floride Calhoun.
Floride Bonneau Colhoun Calhoun Feb. 15, 1792-July 25, 1866. Floride Bonneau Colhoun Calhoun, a prominent woman in the early republic, was married to career politician John C. Calhoun.
Floride's father, Thomas G. Clemson, a transplanted Pennsylvania scientist, farmer, and sometime diplomat, had married Anna Maria Calhoun, the favorite daughter of the distinguished South
Feb 14, 2024 · A rebel came home: the diary of Florida Clemson tells of her wartime adventures in Yankeeland, 1863-64, her trip home to South Carolina, and life in the South during the last few months of the Civil war and the year following by Floride Clemson
Floride Elizabeth Clemson (December 29, 1842 – July 23, 1871) was the daughter of Clemson University founder Thomas Green Clemson, and the granddaughter of former Vice President John C. Calhoun and his wife, Floride Calhoun.
As the Clemson women left Maryland in December 1864 for Pendleton, Floride Clemson wrote in her diary, “Andy, who is of course free with all Md. Negroes, will go to Dr. Septimus Cook’s near here.”
Floride Clemson, Ernest McPherson Lander (Jr.) University of South Carolina Press , 1989 - Pendleton (S.C.) - 189 pages A portrait of one woman's life during the Civil War and the early months...
