St. David’s Church – Standing Guard

The old white sentinel stands resolutely over the many silent headstones that surround its 241-year-old wooden frame.  It has witnessed years of war interspersed with years of peace and both have shaped its colorful history in Cheraw, South Carolina. Having been commissioned in 1768 and built in 1770, St. David’s Church saw the tumult and…

Southern Unionists?

The assumption that all people who lived in the South between 1861-1865 were supporters of the Confederacy would be mistaken.  Not only were there supporters of the Union living in the South, but a regiment formed in New Orleans in 1864, the 1st Regiment New Orleans Infantry,  was made up of Southern Unionists. Timothy Lawrence…