This New Testament published by the American Bible Society in 1856 is the type that has a flap that can be secured covering the main outer edge of the Bible.  It is rare to find New Testaments that were actually carried and have a good I.D. in them.  Often the I.D. is in pencil and you don’t know when the name was written in.  It is most rare, to find an I.D. IN INK, WITH A DATE, AND PLACE OF PRESENTATION!  

“Charles J. C. Hutson

From E. S. C.

August 5th, 1861

Charleston

So. Ca.”
 

The ink is ink of the period… and it came right out of Charleston.  Charles J. C. Hutson was a member of Company H of the 1st South Carolina Infantry.  THIS WAS COL. MAXEY GREGG’S REGIMENT!!  The 1st S.C. was originally stationed in Charleston and then fought with distinction in the Peninsula Campaign, Harper’s Ferry, Sharpsburg, and Fredericksburg.  It was at Fredericksburg that Gregg who was now a Brigadier General was mortally wounded. 

Charles full name was Charles Jones Colcock Hutson.  See our letter by Charleston Lawyer W. F. Colcock describing Charleston condition in January 1862.  The University of South Carolina’s School of Law has the Colcock-Hutson collection: “Five Generations of Colcock-Hutson Lawyers”.  The Bible is in very good condition with a few places of flaking on the outside leather and staining on pages inside. 

In the back of the Bible, written in pencil, is: “A gift from Emmeline S. Colcock, 1861.”  Below that Charles has written several comments after the war including, “She was the most faultless being I ever knew, 1868.”  There were many references when you Google Charles J. C. Hutson, including a few of his letters that are in different Universities. 

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