Official Records
The records of the U.S. District Courts for the Districts of South Carolina are included among Record Group 21 at the:
National Archives at Atlanta
5780 Jonesboro Road
Morrow, Georgia 30260
Email: atlanta.archives@nara.gov
A guide to the holdings of the regional archives is available at: https://www.archives.gov/atlanta/holdings
A published description of the records is also available in the Guide to Federal Records in the National Archives of the United States, 1995 (http://www.archives.gov/research/guide-fed-records/index.html ).
Bibliography
Fish, Peter Graham. Federal Justice in the Mid-Atlantic South: United States Courts from Maryland to the Carolinas, 1789-1835. Washington, D.C.: Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, 2002.
_______. Federal Justice in the Mid-Atlantic South: United States Courts from Maryland to the Carolinas, 1836-1861. Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press, 2015.