According to his daughter’s application to join the United Daughters of the Confederacy, Lemuel Edwards “participated in three battles.” Those battles were the battles of Griswoldville, Honey Hill, and Savannah. In the summer of 2016, I obtained permission from the town of Ridgeland, South Carolina, to explore the breastworks located in the snake-infested woods off Highway 336.…
Category: My Family’s True Civil War Story
The Search for My Family’s True Civil War Story
My search for my family’s Civil War story began more than twenty years ago with the gift of an eighty-year-old sheet of paper, a treasure map of sorts, from my maternal grandmother, Nonna. The fragile document had been passed down through our family for years, eventually ending up in hibernation in a box of family photographs…