Finding "My" Charleston…Digging down on the block I live on…to see what I can find.

Category: Civil War in Charleston SC

  • Remembrances of Charleston Women in the Civil War

    I think I mentioned earlier that I found a treasure of a book on-line called “Our Women in the War.” It is a compilation of women’s stories from across the South. The stories were requested, gathered and published by the Charleston News and Courier in 1885 with the subtitle: The Lives They Lived: The Deaths…

  • Caroline Howard Gilman 1794—1888

    Creator of the Charleston Unitarian Church Graveyard among other things Charleston’s old Unitarian graveyard is a popular tourist site for two reasons: One, the grounds are left more or less to nature with minimal control by volunteers. And two, it is haunted. I will add links if you are interested in more…a great story about…