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Rev. William Porcher DuBose left Pineville during the Civil War. He became a leading profes sor, author, and administrator at Sewanee the University of The South. Pineville was devastated by the Civil War. Most of the homes were burned, most of the plantation owners left the area, and most of the freed slaves wandered away.
Eutaw Plantation lay between Eutawville and the Eutaw Springs Battlefield. William Mazyck Porcher was marched from Mexico Plantation to Eutaw Plantation then to Charleston by General Hartwell in 1865. This photo of Eutaw was taken in 1935 before it was flooded by the Santee-Cooper Project. The house was built in 1808 by William Sinkler and
These troops served in the 107th U.S. Colored Infantry. Photograph from Library of Congress Dr. Peter Gaillard Gourdin II wrote the following letter from the field hospital in Adams Run to his wife, Ella Palmer Gourdin, in Pineville on February 6, 1865: Dear Ella, Since my letter of the third the turn of military events
The Ophir house was large and beautiful. Like all the houses of that period it was constructed of hand-sawn lumber. It had four stories, a large basement, and an attic. It now lies beneath Lake Moultrie. A family legend tells of a man traveling up the Santee River Road (now Hwy 45) by stage coach