MARGARET ANN (META) MORRIS GRIMBALL DIARY, #975, 1860- 1866
Manuscript diary of Margaret Ann (Meta) Morris Grimball, wife of John Berkeley Grimball,
rice planter in the Colleton District of South Carolina, with connections to the Manigault
and Lowndes families of South Carolina and to the Morris family of Morrisania, New York.
Entries were written from Grove Plantation (the Grimball's primary residence after the Civil
War), and from Charleston and Spartanburg, South Carolina, and discuss plantation life; the
use of slave labor to build a fort (1861); difficulties with slaves
and anxiety about their safety (1862); and general wartime
hardships encountered by the family and servants (1862). Microfilm
available.