Two diaries From Middle St. John's, Berkeley, South Carolina, February-May, 1865: Journals kept by Miss Susan R. Jervey and Miss Charlotte St. J. Ravenel, at Northampton and Pooshee plantations, and reminiscences of Mrs. (Waring) Henagan; with two contemporary reports from federal officials.Jervey, Susan R. (Susan Ravenel)
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Two diaries From Middle St. John's, Berkeley, South Carolina, February-May, 1865: Journals kept by Miss Susan R. Jervey and Miss Charlotte St. J. Ravenel, at Northampton and Pooshee plantations, and reminiscences of Mrs. (Waring) Henagan; with two contemporary reports from federal officials.
Jervey, Susan R. (Susan Ravenel)
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives, Confederate
[14] “Neddie” Snowden, son of Dr. P. G. S.
[15] Edwin DuBose.
[16] Mrs. John S. White.
[17] A negro servant.
[18] A negro servant.
[19] A negro servant.
[20] Mrs. Jane Screven DuBose (Harbin).
[21] Dr. Henry Ravenel (Pooshee).
[22] Wm. F. Ravenel (Woodlawn).
[23] Miss Elizabeth Jervey.
[24] A negro servant (my grandmother’s faithful housekeeper). S. R. J
[25] Body servant of Henry L. Stevens, C. S. A.
[26] Negro servants; two of Uncle Henry’s most trusted negroes. S. R.
J.
[27] Wm. St. Julien Jervey. C. S. A.
[28] Mrs. Percival (Maria) Porcher, widow of P. R. Porcher, C. S. A.
[29] Col. James Ferguson, father of General S. W. Ferguson, C. S. A.,
“Dockon,” his plantation on Cooper River.
[30] A non-commissioned black officer, known to the negroes as “the
General.” S. R. J.
[31] A negro servant.
[32] Charles Snowden, C. S. A., afterwards an Episcopal minister.
[33] Lilla Snowden, daughter of Dr. P. G. Snowden.
[34] A negro servant.
[35] The Rev. (Lt. Col.) Peter F. Stevens, C. S. A., rector, Black Oak
Church, afterwards Bishop, Reformed Episcopal Church.
[36] Miss Sallie Palmer, daughter of Dr. John Palmer.
[37] “John’s Run” plantation.
[38] Edward J. Dennis, C. S. A., afterwards Senator from Berkeley
county.
[39] Hear the true cause of their spite was that when our army was
going to St. Stephens, a dying Confederate soldier from the islands
was carried to her house and died there. S. R. J.
[40] Mrs. Kate C. Porcher.
[41] Mrs. Kate C. Porcher’s little son.
[42] Old Quash, a servant, head-man at Cedar Grove.
[43] Dr. Henry Ravenel.
[44] Tom Porcher’s place, next to Cassawda.
[45] Mrs. Harriet (Charles J.) Snowden.
[46] This letter reached the old ladies in Walhalla a month later from
Connecticut. S. R. J.
[47] Dr. Christopher G. White.
[48] “Edward J. Dennis belonged to Co. F. Sixth South Carolina
Cavalry, Col. Hugh K. Aiken. * * * When just out of his teens, while
in Virginia the latter part of 1864, took fever, and as soon as
he could travel was sent on sick furlough to his home at or near
Pinopolis, then in old Charleston District, now Berkeley County. About
the time that the City of Charleston was evacuated in 1865, Dennis had
recovered, and not knowing where his command was he gathered together
a squad of six men and operated on the Santee and Cooper rivers in old
Charleston District. He was a terror to the Yankee raiding parties who
gave the people of the section no end of trouble.” (From “Butler and
Cavalry, 1861-1865,” by U. R. Brooks, Columbia, S. C., 1909.)
[49] Miss Henrietta E. Ravenel, daughter of H. W. R.
[50] Miss Lydia S. Ravenel, daughter of H. W. R.
[51] Miss Charlotte Ravenel, daughter of H. W. R.
[52] Mrs. Wm. Ravenel of Woodlawn.
[53] Miss Annie Ravenel (of Tryon, N. C.)
[54] Chelsea, plantation home of Dr. Morton Waring.
[55] The Rocks, plantation belonging to Mr. James Gaillard, Jr.
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