Sesquicentennial Links

• "Sites Associated with Jefferson Davis's Flight Through South Carolina, April 26 - May 3, 1865" by J. Tracy Power and Benjamin F. Hornsby, Jr.
   
• "Black South Carolinians and the Civil War" - A working paper presented before the South Carolina African American Heritage Commission Annual Meeting January 29, 2010 by Dr. Bernard E. Powers Jr.
   
• National Park Service Sesquicentennial Initiative:  http://cwar.nps.gov/civilwar/
   
• American Association for State and Local History: http://www.aaslh.org/civil_war.htm
   
• Virginia: http://www.virginiacivilwar.org/
  
  The Goal should be an Enlightening Commemoration
  by David Blight in the Chronicle of Higher Education on one of several symposiums to be held in Virginia
   
• Arkansas: http://www.arkansaspreservation.com/preservation-services/sesquicentennial-commission/
   
• North Carolina: http://www.nccivilwar150.com/
   
• Sons of Confederate Veterans: http://www.confederate150.com/
   
• Civil War Traveler website Battlefields & sites plus maps, events, reenactment schedules, podcasts, books and more — everything you need to plan your Civil War travel
   

Links and Exhibits in South Carolina

• South Carolina Sesquicentennnial of the Civil War - the Low Country Sesquicentennial Coordinating Committee sponsored by the Fort Sumter/Fort Moultrie Trust
   
• No Holier Spot of Ground May 1-August 2 at the Confederate Relic Room, Columbia, SC

  The shadow of loved ones lost during the Civil War haunted thousands of households across America.  In the Palmetto State alone, nearly 21,000 military men died out of the approximately 63,000 troops mustered into service. Each number within this astounding death total directly represents an individual whose life came to a short end, leaving behind unfulfilled hopes and dreams. Likewise, it also represents the families whose worlds were instantly shattered. Never again would they feel the embrace, hear the voice or experience the comfort of their loved one.

  The exhibit “No Holier Spot of Ground: Confederate Memory in South Carolina’s Cemeteries, Monuments, and Museums” tells South Carolina’s story of memorializing the Confederacy through establishing burial arrangements, monuments, and museums.  It examines how families and communities in the state attempted to cope with loss during the war, and how later generations continue these forms of commemoration.  The exhibit will be on display through August 2, 2009. 
   

• The Colin J. McRae Papers at the Confederate Relic Room
  
  The McRae Papers will form the backbone for an exhibition linking South Carolina’s involvement in Confederate banking, financing, purchasing, and supply for the entire Southern war effort. The exhibit will also detail what impact the importation of English goods through the blockade had on Confederate soldiers in the field. This exhibit will open at the South Carolina Confederate Relic Room and Military Museum during the national Civil War Sesquicentennial Anniversary in 2011.
   
• Visit the State Museum to learn more about the Civil War in South Carolina
   

Pictured above: Institute Hall, Charleston on Meeting Street came to be known as "Secession Hall" after the Ordinance of Secession was signed there on the evening of December 20, 1860.  The South Carolina Institute, founded in 1849 to encourage industrial development, built its hall in 1853. The great fire of December 1861 destroyed the building.  Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper,  April 14, 1860. Collection of South Carolina Department of Archives and History

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