JOHN R. PEACOCK, COLLECTOR, PAPERS, #1895, 1838-1954
Letters, soldiers' reminiscences, pictures, autographs, and other papers relating to the
Confederacy, to Confederate personages before or after the Civil War, and to other aspects of
American history, collected by Peacock. The collection contains the statement of "Uncle
Wiley" Howard, slave and body-servant of General Gist, concerning the death and burial of
Gist (n.d.); and a sermon by the Reverend Leon C. Burns, Church of Christ, Columbia, South
Carolina, denouncing efforts toward desegregation (1954).