Aftermath:

Reconstruction,
Redemption, and a new life.
Sixteenth
South Carolina
C.S.A.
Sixteenth
South Carolina
C.S.A.
Aftermath:

Reconstruction,
Redemption, and a new life.

"I'm a Good Old Rebel"
Music by Dayle K.


Survivors


The survivors and the widows of those who had made the supreme sacrifice had nowhere to turn for help. The crops, fences, buildings, livestock, tools, roads, railroads, mills, factories, and homes were destroyed. The State, like the people, was utterly destitute and the conqueror was in charge, backed up by an occupying army.

However, after a few years, the survivors began to organize and the State started rendering some meager assistance to some of the more destitute. Before that, during the Reconstruction, there was nothing but the little that could be given to one another.

W.T. Shumate, a veteran, stood on the Courthouse steps in Greenville and bought the property of his neighbors as it was sold by Republican administrators of the occupation for taxes. He allowed the owners to pay him only what he had paid for the property, plus the interest he had to pay on the money he had borrowed to make the purchase. If you seek a kind view of those who did this, seek it elsewhere, revisionist abound today. You will not find it here.



Aftermath Index

Ervin Batson and the Crippled Brigade Verus The "Gentle" Republican Occupation"The Beginning of a Fight""Gonna get the vote"
"Red Shirts Rising"
"The Clubs of Upper Greenville County"
"Things get serious""The end of the beginning"
"Hold the Fort!""The Battle for Home Rule"Redemption in "76"
"The Return of the Colors" "Softly into the Twilight" "The Warriors grow old"
Roster of the men present at
The Return of the colors
"The light grows dim""A small measure of peace"
A very brief overview of pensions"The smallest measure of help""A broken but loving state"
The United Confederate Veterans"Captain Manning Austin Chapter""From Susan and Mauldin Legacy"
Sergeant M.K. Robertson, Company H, Sixteenth South Carolina, Radical Republican Unionist"He lived on his convictions unmoved by public opinion or by private friends." Thanks to Kelly Jane O'Hara and Cathy Griffith
The Unionist of Greenville CountyBen Perry and the moderates, 1828-1880 The forgotten few
Ellison Capers Speech (Excerpts) May 29, 1890, Let Boling from the Mountains.... rally the living men... From Ellison Capers, Soldier-Bishop, by Walter Capers
The Fading Scream of Battle...
Reunions... after reunions
"Number the days of man""Till all the sound and fury is past "



Most of this information is taken from
A History of Upper Greenville County
By Mann Batson

This book is available through the author at the following address in softback only. Cost is $23.00 plus $3.00 shipping and handling or a total cost of $26.00. The book is over 600 pages in length and is an excellent history of the mountains. It is the first of three books written by Mann Batson on life in the highlands of Greenville County prior to 1900.
203 Love Dr.
Travelers Rest, S.C. 29690



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