Mar 19, 2015 | Freedmens Bureau, LCA Main Blog, LCA Main Blog
A Rich Find for Georgetown Research The FamilySearch collection South Carolina Freedmen’s Bureau Records, 1865-1872 is the digitized version of Records of the Field Offices for the State of South Carolina, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands,...
Aug 6, 2013 | Joseph McGill, LCA Main Blog, LCA Main Blog
150th Anniversary Commemoration, Assault on Battery Wagner By Joseph McGill “Approximately 200,000 African American men served in the Union Army and Navy during the American Civil War. For this particular stay, it was not much of a stretch for the Slave Dwelling...
Aug 24, 2012 | Joseph McGill, LCA Main Blog, LCA Main Blog
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 23, 2012 For additional information contact: Joseph McGill 843-408-7727 jmcgill@savingplaces.org African American Civil War Lecture Series The fourth installment of the SC African American Heritage Commission’s (SCAAHC) African...
May 11, 2012 | LCA Main Blog, LCA Main Blog
A resolution introduced by South Carolina Representative Andy Patrick calls for South Carolina to officially recognize the importance of Mitchelville, a Freedmen’s community built in 1862 on the Drayton family’s Fish Haul Plantation in Hilton Head, South...
Mar 3, 2011 | SC Full-Text Reading Room
Abstract: Map of Plantations on the Sea Islands in Beaufort, St. Helena, Hilton Head and surrounding Sea Islands. First-hand accounts written by Edward S. Philbrick and others involved in the Port Royal Experiment
