Prior to the war, the landscape of the South Carolina coast was that of large plantations owned by some of the wealthiest men in America. The vast fields of cotton owned by these planters was worked by hundreds of thousands of black slaves who generated riches for their owners. The population was overwhelmingly black, with…
Not all Confederate forces have yet surrendered. In the mountains of North Carolina near Franklin, a small contingent of Confederates remain armed and active. Patrolling the area are the forces of Union Colonel George W. Kirk. “(D)ue to the possibility of Yankee Soldiers in the county,” Franklin’s First Baptist Church cancels services this day. Meanwhile,…
Today’s edition of the Port Royal-published New South Newspaper, the Union-produced publication of federally-occupied coastal South Carolina, notes an upcoming fund raiser to be held at the First African Baptist Church of Hilton Head. A special effort to raise money for the erection of a monument to the memory of the late Col. Shaw, of…