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

Tag: civil-war

  • Septima Poinsette Clark

    Daughter of a Slave…in my neighborhood… Septima Poinsette Clark grew up as a young girl in my neighborhood…a block over on Wentworth Street across from Grace Church. I have started and stopped writing this article on her ten times. I want to write about her because I admire what she made of her life as…

  • 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…