In South Carolina’s Low Country, former wealthy plantation owners seek re-possession of the lands and homes they abandoned during the war. Among those trying to regain their property are many of the richest Americans prior to the war, their wealth bound up in hundreds or thousands of slaves and massive land holdings. During the war…
Today, Sunday, is a national Confederate Day of Thanksgiving, as proclaimed by the Confederate Congress on July 22, the day after the great victory at Bull Run / Manassas. The Congress has asked churches throughout the land to devote the day to thanking God and asking for God’s continued blessing upon his chosen nation: Resolved,…
Landrum C. Ezell (born May 16, 1843) of Spartanburg, South Carolina, enlists in the Cowpens Guards, 9th S.C. Regiment. Ezell is a Baptist preacher, and in the coming months and years he rises to the rank of sergeant, experiences minor war wounds, and fights in the battles of Williamsburg, Seven Pines, Gaines’ Mill, Frazer’s Farm,…