41 www.ReadMPM.com | www.MountPleasantMagazine.com | www.MountPleasantPodcast.com our town BY SARAH ROSE As Southerners, many of us were bred with a deep resentment toward Northerners due to their victory in the “War of Northern Aggression” .and the resulting stories that passed down for generations about how Union soldiers hijacked crops, animals and silver from the Confederates, looting and burning their houses, consequently leaving many of our ancestors destitute (see “Sunset Lodge” by David Gregg Hodges, page 24). Equally frustrating to many South Carolinians was that after the war ended and emancipation had taken effect, there was no longer anyone to work the rice or cotton fields or to maintain plantation homes and properties. With no crops to grow and sell, the once thriving local economy plunged into such a state of disrepair that whites as well as Blacks found themselves starving. As if times weren’t tough enough in the 1890s, three devastating hurricanes swept through Georgetown County, North meets South Welcoming Northern Invasion II
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