Secessionists, Soldiers and Slaves: The Middleton family’s Civil War
Event Details
The Middleton Place House Museum will mount special changing exhibits commemorating American Civil War sesquicentennial anniversaries on a year-by-year basis and follow the lives of the Middleton family, friends and slaves. Using personal letters, first-hand accounts and collections of the Middleton Place Foundation, the war will be viewed through the lens of Middleton family as Secession and early war optimism turns slowly into defeat. The exhibit will explore rice culture during the war, the building of Charleston’s defenses, investing in experimental “seegar boats”, the use of slaves for war projects and runaway slaves fleeing the plantations for Union controlled-bases in Beaufort and Port Royal.
Civil War, CW 150 and Sesquicentennial
Date
January 1, 2011 - December 31, 2015
Location
Middleton Place 4300 Ashley River Road, Charleston, SC 29414
, SC
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