Samuel Gourdin Gaillard memoir, 19uu.

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Samuel Gourdin Gaillard memoir, 19uu.

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Memoir of life at The Rocks plantation, with autobiogrpahical sketch of the author, Samuel Gourdin Gourdin (b.1854). Topics discussed include Christmas celebrations, gifts to African American slaves, weddings for slaves conducted in the parlor of "the big house," hunting, cotton trade, ring shouts in the slave chapel, the Civil War, African American Union soldiers, Reconstruction, and Gaillard's scholarship to attend Union College (Schenectady, N.Y.) Also includes cover letter, 21 May 1997, from Samuel Ravenel Gaillard, nephew of S.G. Gourdin.

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Gaillard family.

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Gaillard, Samuel Gourdin, 1854-

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Civil and mining engineer of Philadelphia, Pa., and Colorado; born, 1854, in Eutawville (Orangeburg County, S.C.); in 1891, married Miss E.L. Bowman McCrady; childhood resident of The Rocks plantation, a farm located ca. 5 miles from Eutawville, S.C., in St. John's Berkeley Parish, a site originally part of Berkeley District, S.C., until 1908, when it was annexed into Orangeburg County. In 1941 the house was moved from its original site due to the Santee-Cooper Dam Project. A fire destroyed the ...