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Updates on the events, exhibits, archives and staff of the South Carolina Historical Society.
In February of 1865, President Abraham Lincoln commissioned Martin Robison Delany as an officer in the Union Army. At the …
Continue ReadingActivist, politician, and poet Clelia Peronneau Mathewes McGowan was born on January 30, 1865. Although she is chiefly remembered for …
Continue ReadingOn December 16, 1762, the South Carolina legislature resolved to do no further business with the governor until he recognized …
Continue ReadingThomas Pinckney was the youngest son of Eliza Lucas and Charles Pinckney. Born in 1750, he was placed in school …
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