[1] Northampton. A St. Julien homestead, passing by marriage into
the hands of Gen’l William Moultrie, whose name belongs to the
history of the State. On this place he made the first experiment of
cotton-planting on a large scale. The substantial brick house was
destroyed by fire in 1842, but the massive walls were uninjured, and
the loss done by fire restored. (From the “Upper Beat of St. John’s,
Berkeley,” by Prof. F. A. Porcher.)
[2] William Jervey, Esq., of the Charleston Bar.
[3] Cedar Grove, my grandmother’s old home, away from the great
thoroughfares, was our refuge during the war, but Father had promised
that Aunt Nenna (Mrs. Stevens) should not be left with her two babies
all alone to meet the Yankees--the place was Northampton, near Black
Oak the center of Yankee raiding. We kept putting off our move until
the news came of the army being at Orangeburg. S. R. J.
[4] Rene R. Jervey, son of W. J.
[5] James L. Jervey, C. S. A., son of W. J.
[6] William Henry Sinkler, C. S. A., son of Wm. Sinkler, of Belmont.
[7] Lieut. Oscar M. LaBorde, C. S. A., killed in the battle of
Averysboro, March 15.
[8] Charles Stevens, son of Mrs. Henrietta Stevens.
[9] William Palmer;--body servant of late Henry L. Stevens, C. S. A.
[10] Mrs. Henrietta Stevens, widow of late Henry L. Stevens, C. S. A.
[11] Mr. Thomas P. Ravenel, Sr., C. S. A
[12] Hon. Wm. Cain, former Lt. Governor of South Carolina.
[13] Dr. Peter G. Snowden, C. S. A.
[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.
[56] Somerset, plantation belonging to Mr. Wm. Cain.
[57] The brothers Ravenel.
[58] A negro servant.
[59] Peter G. Snowden, M. D., C. S. A.
[60] Edwin DuBose, son of Samuel DuBose of Harbin.
[61] Henry W. Ravenel, the botanist of Aiken.
[62] N. Russell Middleton, LL. D., President, College of Charleston.
[63] “One day Captain Pettus, the young Texan in command of our
scouts, came and told us that a raid had started from Charleston; a
negro brigade with white officers. They told us, to our horror, that
they had taken prisoner two gentlemen on their plantations in lower
St. John’s; one our friend Mr. Mazyck Porcher, and Mr. William Ravenel
a cousin of ours; and burned down Mr. Porcher’s house. * * * The next
thing we heard was that the plantation of “old Mr. James Gaillard,”
had been raided and the house almost destroyed. This was because, when
the troops arrived, they found two of the scouts riding away from the
house where they had been given breakfast. Mr. Gaillard was an old man
and his house was a veritable haven of refuge for women and children.
One of the granddaughters who lived with him had an infant of two or
three weeks old, and there were a number of others, old and young,
homeless, bereaved and afflicted women. One of the officers ordered
them all to leave the house. He stood on the steps using frightful
language, as he was in a towering rage on account of their sheltering
“bushwhackers,” as he called them. These women were courageous
enough to refuse to leave the house, knowing very well that it would
be burned down if they did. They all gathered on the piazza while
the soldiers ripped off the doors, tore off the shutters and threw
furniture and china out of the windows; even a melodeon.”
(From “Memories of a South Carolina Plantation During the War.” By
Elizabeth Allen Coxe, daughter of Charles Sinkler of Belvidere, pp.
40-41. Privately printed, Phila., 1912).
[64] Thomas P. Ravenel, Sr., C. S. A.
[65] John Henry Porcher, Engineer Dept., C. S. A.
[66] James L. Jervey, C. S. A., son of William, and brother of the
diarist.
[67] Henry Wm. Ravenel, the botanist.
[68] Henry W. Ravenel, Jr., son of H. W. R.
[69] Mrs. Percival R. Porcher.
[70] Rene Ravenel, M. D.
[71] Henry Ravenel of Pooshee.
[72] Mrs. Henry L. Stevens.
[73] Emily G. Ravenel (Cain).
[74] William Jervey, Esq., of Charleston.
[75] Mrs. Rene Ravenel.
[76] Miss Lydia Ravenel.
[77] Edward Mazyck.
[78] Mrs. Thomas P. Ravenel.
[79] Thomas P. Ravenel.
[80] Mrs. Rene Ravenel.
[81] Dr. Morton Waring, of Chelsea.
[82] Mrs. John S. White.
[83] Miss H. E. Ravenel.
[84] Arnold Harvey.
[85] Mrs. Jane E. DuBose.
[86] Miss Henrietta Ravenel.
[87] Miss Lydia Ravenel.
[88] It would appear that General Potter made an even less favorable
impression at Otranto, in St. James’, Goose Creek, the home of Philip
Johnstone Porcher.
“As it was then near midnight we decided to go to bed, and mother said
she would go down in the morning and request that a written protection
be furnished us, as this had been suggested by the quiet-looking
officer, our protector of the afternoon before. Therefore, as early as
possible she did so, but General Potter received her very shortly, and
only replied, ‘Your husband is in the Rebel army.’ She replied, ‘it
was our desire that he should leave us, and I am glad he is not here,
for if he had been I suppose he would have been shot.’
“He replied, ‘you talk like a fool when you say that,’ and turned off;
when mother said, ‘If that is your opinion, I have the more need of
protection’.”
(From “Some War-Time Letters,” by Marion Johnstone (Porcher) Ford, in
“Life in the Confederate Army,” p. 113. Neale Publishing Co., N. Y.
1905.)
[89] Wantoot was the original home settlement of the Ravenel family in
St. John’s, Berkeley.
[90] Rev. (afterwards Bishop) P. F. Stevens.
[91] Miss Marianne E. Porcher.
[92] Dr. Morton Waring (Chelsea.)
[93] Mrs. Charles J. Snowden.
[94] Dr. Christopher G. White.
[95] Mrs. Richard Y. Dwight.
[96] Mrs. Robert Wilson.
[97] The St. John’s Hunting Club. (The Black Oak Club.)
[98] Henry LeNoble Ravenel.
[99] A band of negroes who had conspired to massacre the whites.
[100] Gen’l Sam’l W. Ferguson, C. S. A.
[101] Mrs. Peter C. Gaillard.
[102] A negro under-overseer.
[103] “The Confederate scouts who formed our patrol and police were
wild and irresponsible men, although brave and honorable; their
captain, a son of Governor Pettus of Mississippi (_sic_), a youth
of nineteen. Except for them the country between us and Charleston
after its fall was at the mercy of bands of stragglers who burned and
pillaged recklessly in the lower neighborhood, but seldom came so far
as our plantations.” (p. 56). * * * * “At last the time came when
our faithful band of Confederate scouts were recalled. In fact, the
war was over, and I suppose they really had no longer any recognized
position, but were only bushwhackers; indeed, liable to be hung or
shot if caught. Therefore, it was determined to give them a farewell
party at Mrs. Palmer’s house Springfield--even if there were some risk
in it--and Deasey and I were invited to spend the night. I was quite
pleased with myself in a dress I had made out of an old pair of white
window curtains. There were about thirty scouts at the party, and
their horses were picketed close to the piazza; their guns stacked in
the corners of the large bare drawing-room, and they danced with their
pistols stuck in their top-boots which give them a very dashing look.”
(P. 63). (From Mrs. E. A. Coxe’s “Memories,” &c.)
[104] See article by W. Mazyck Porcher in the (Charleston) _Weekly
News_, August 16, 1882.
[105] Mrs. Edwin DuBose (Harbin.)
[106] Pp. 69-70, “Record of the Service of the Fifty-fifth Regiment
of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry. Printed for the Regimental
Association, Cambridge Press of John Wilson & Son, July, 1868.”
(Printed for private circulation.)