Feb 7, 2017 | LCA Main Blog, LCA Main Blog, SC Records
The estate inventory of Alexander E. Gadsden, made 29 Oct 1864, lists the names of 42 enslaved people at Palo Alto Plantation, McClellanville, St. James Santee in Berkeley County, SC. Slaves listed in the estate were: Primus Maria Dorcas Frank Sophy Margaret Julianne...
Jan 10, 2011 | LCA Main Blog
The capture of Port Royal, South Carolina by Union forces in November 1861 set in motion a series of events which would lead to one of the largest social transformations in the history of the Lowcountry Southeast – the emancipation of...
Nov 5, 2010 | Freedmens Bureau, SC Ancestors
Names Grant, Joseph Williams, Geo. A. Taggard, F.W. Thomas, L. Hawks, D. Zelley, Daniel W. Walter, W.D. Crawford, A.M.L.