Palmetto Trail Wateree Passage gets historical signs in Sumter
Four signs in Sumter mark the location of Potter's Raid during the Civil War. They were donated by the Williams-Brice-Edwards Charitable Trust.
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Four signs in Sumter mark the location of Potter's Raid during the Civil War. They were donated by the Williams-Brice-Edwards Charitable Trust.
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
I, William Mazyck Porcher, have been persuaded by my friends to give you a plain, unvarnished account of the treatment of my neighbors and myself by the military authorities of