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    Lowcountry Confederates: Rebels, Yankees, and South Carolina Rice Plantations: More Tales from Brookgreen
    Lowcountry Confederates: Rebels, Yankees, and South Carolina Rice Plantations: More Tales from Brookgreen
    Lowcountry Confederates: Rebels, Yankees, and South Carolina Rice Plantations: More Tales from Brookgreen
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    Lowcountry Confederates: Rebels, Yankees, and South Carolina Rice Plantations: More Tales from Brookgreen

    By Lynn Michelsohn

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    Rebels, Yankees, and Historic Rice Plantations in the South Carolina Lowcountry . . .

    The Stories:

    ~  A Torpedo, an Admiral, and the USS Harvest Moon  ~ 
    The rice mill engineer of Brookgreen Garden’s Laurel Hill Plantation strikes a blow for the Confederacy in “Thomas Daggett,” a tale of one final Confederate naval operation

    ~  A Sad Tale from a Tragic War  ~
    Memories of a special Lowcountry rice plantation feast sustain ragged Confederate soldiers through cold, heat, dust, mud, and despair in “The Legendary Feast.”

    The Series:
    Brookgreen Gardens storytellers share more history and folklore from Murrell Inlet’s popular tourist attraction in near Myrtle Beach in this short collection (10,000 words, 6 illustrations, 82 pages in paperback) from Lynn Michelsohn’s second series, More Tales from Brookgreen: Folklore, Ghost Stories, and Gullah Folktales in the South Carolina Lowcountry.

    The Storytellers:
    Two “sixty-ish” Southern ladies serving as Hostesses at Brookgreen Gardens told these stories of the South Carolina Lowcountry to visitors during the middle of the Twentieth Century. Now, Lynn Michelsohn recounts them to a wider audience.

    The Setting:
    Brookgreen Gardens, a sculpture garden and wildlife preserve created in the 1930s from four historic Lowcountry rice plantations rich with folklore, displays American sculpture along its pathways winding through ancient live oaks draped with Spanish moss.

    Also available . . .

    ~ Books from Lynn Michelsohn’s first series, Tales from Brookgreen:

      Lowcountry Ghosts—history, mystery, and romance from the South Carolina coast.


      Gullah Ghosts—tales from African-American Gullah culture in the Carolina Lowcountry.


      Crab Boy’s Ghost—one Gullah ghost story and several animal folktales.


      Tales from Brookgreen (The Complete Series}—history, folklore, and ghost stories from Brookgreen Gardens in the South Carolina Lowcountry.

    ~ Other books from Lynn Michelsohn’s second series, More Tales from Brookgreen:

      Lowcounry Hurricanes—stories of joy, tragedy, and survival.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCleanan Press, Inc.
    Release dateDec 25, 2014
    ISBN9781507031360
    Lowcountry Confederates: Rebels, Yankees, and South Carolina Rice Plantations: More Tales from Brookgreen
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    Lynn Michelsohn

    Travel, history, and folklore often come together in Lynn Michelsohn's books. Ghost stories associated with particular historical locations especially interest her, as do fascinating characters and quirky facts about places she loves--the South Carolina Lowcountry, the American Southwest, and the Galapagos Islands. A Message from the Author: I write for three reasons. First of all, it's fun. Secondly, it keeps my brain alive and functioning as I learn new things. Finally, and probably most importantly, it keeps me out of my sons' hair (I just know I could run their lives, if only they would let me!). Several years ago, I closed my long-time New Mexico practice in clinical and forensic psychology to devote more time to writing--and beachcombing. My husband, a former attorney, and I now divide our time between Santa Fe and Hutchinson Island, Florida, where our two adult sons visit us regularly (but not often enough). 

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      Lowcountry Confederates - Lynn Michelsohn

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      Lowcountry Confederates

      Rebels, Yankees, and  South Carolina Rice Plantations

      (More Tales from Brookgreen Series)

      by

      Lynn Michelsohn

      Cleanan Press, Inc.

      Roswell, New Mexico 

      USA

      Copyright © 2014 by Lynn Michelsohn

      Table of Contents

      Title Page

      Preface

      Thomas Daggett, The Engineer of Laurel Hill

      Historical Digression: On Rice and Rice Mills

      The Legendary Feast, A Sad Tale from a Tragic War

      Historical Digression: The Waccamaw Light Artillery

      About the Storytellers

      About the Author

      Acknowledgements

      A Selection from Gullah Ghosts

      Other Books by Lynn Michelsohn

      Extended Copyright

      .

      Preface

      During the middle of the Twentieth Century, two charming sixty-ish Hostesses at Brookgreen Gardens—the lovely sculpture park created from four historic rice plantations in the South Carolina Lowcountry near Myrtle Beach—told these stories. I hope you enjoy these tales from Cousin Corrie Dusenbury and Miss Genevieve Wilcox Chandler as much as I did.

      Lynn Michelsohn

      Millstone

      ..

      Thomas Daggett

      The Engineer of Laurel Hill Plantation

      Millstones don’t figure prominently in the landscaping of Brookgreen Gardens, although several rest unobtrusively in out-of-the-way spots. They make convenient seating here and there for weary Garden visitors. The gray-brown of their rough channeled surfaces blends easily with the winding openwork walls and trailing Spanish moss.

      As a child, I knew that these were not natural stones, but I just looked at them as decorative elements in the Gardens. Then one day a visitor asked about them.

      Cousin Corrie explained that these stones had milled the rice grown in fields around us here at Brookgreen Gardens. As she explained it, each of the four plantations that now make up Brookgreen Gardens once had its own rice mill, with the largest one operating on Laurel Hill Plantation. The rice mill on Brookgreen Plantation stood where the Dogwood Garden stands today. The millstones now scattered throughout Brookgreen Gardens came from those four plantation rice mills.

      Then, Cousin Corrie went on to reveal a surprising, if tenuous, connection between these millstones and one of the most dramatic events in the Carolina Lowcountry during the conflict between Union and Confederate forces.

      As a true Southerner, I now smile secretly whenever I spot one of these rough stones, thinking of that fascinating connection and the last gasp of Southern defiance it recalls.

      Nothing suggested approaching disaster on Wednesday morning March 1, 1865. The waters of South Carolina’s Winyah Bay rocked the Union warship USS Harvest Moon gently as it rode at anchor off the small city of Georgetown, a little north of Charleston. This superior and important vessel was serving as Flagship for Rear Admiral John Adolphus Bernard Dahlgren, the equally superior and important Commander of the United States Navy’s South Atlantic Blockading Squadron.

      The fifty-five-year-old admiral had already enjoyed a long and distinguished military career. A graduate of the United States Naval Academy and an expert on naval ordnance—which is weaponry—he headed that department throughout the War.

      One of his many inventions, a highly efficient, cast-iron, muzzle-loading cannon called the Dahlgren gun, had become a standard component of naval armament. It contributed greatly to the Union victory. Dahlgren’s inventions, as well as his writings on naval warfare, would earn him the enviable historical title of The Father of Naval Ordnance.

      After taking charge of the Washington Naval Yard at the beginning of the War, the then-Captain Dahlgren became a close friend and advisor to President Lincoln. The admiring president soon promoted him to his current rank. When the new admiral took command of the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron in 1863, he chose the Harvest Moon as his Flagship.

      New England shipbuilders originally constructed this 200-foot-long, side-wheel steamship to carry passengers in elegant style along the busy coastal route between Maine and Boston. During the War, the expanding United States Navy purchased it and hastily refitted it as a warship, as they were doing for any suitable vessel.

      Admiral Dahlgren enjoyed the stylish comforts of his Flagship, as well as its trim, modern lines, and its impressive mechanical efficiency. Its vertical beam engine could drive the vessel at an astounding fifteen knots. Fitted with the latest naval armament, it carried his flag,

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