The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1904-06-15
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this spring.
When our Southland was call
ed to arms in 1861 to resist IN
vasion from a foe, Juneville, FIVE
miles southwest of Manning, be-
came the rendezvous for Claren-
don's soldiery, and it was there
the Sprott guards, named for
that grand old gentleman, the
late Joseph Sprott, was organ
lied, this company went through
the war as Company I, 23rd Reg
iment, commanded by Col. Hen
ry L. Benbow, who now resides
near Davis Station. In 1865
when the clash of arms had
nearly ceased, the town of Man
ming was entered by Potters
raiders, an Infamous crew, who
burned our court house, and pill
laged the homes and pestered
the citizens: while this was go
ing on, Charles Jones, a confed-
crate soldier at home on a fur
Tough, almost in front Of where
now resides Hon. John S. vii
son, killed a federal soldier who
was trying to force Jones to sur
render. Jones made his escape
by riding at breakneck speed
around the corner where our
school stands, and on down the
the road, turning out through
the Clark place and into the
swamp. This killing incensed
the dead soldiers comrades, who
took the body, placed it in the
parlor of a Mr.. Blakeley in a
house where now stands Mr.. D.
NJ. Bladham's home, and after
torturing Mr.. and Mrs. Blakeley
an aged couple, they buried the
man in the garden.
About the close of the war, on
the "Covert Place." now ". Il.
Gaillard's place in the Fork, five
negroes were tried by two mag
istrates on the charge of insur-
rection, convicted and hanged
by Captain D. J. Bradham who
was then sheriff. The bodies of
these five negroes were wrapped
in blankets and buried together
in one grave beneath the gal
lows.
Clarendon, aftcr the war, like
her sister counties was under the
heel of the ignorant horde of ne
groes and unscrupulous whites,
some of them camp-folloWers,
and others traitors to their peo-
pie, men who sold their birth
rights for gold, but in 1876, there
came a bugle blast from the tenn
pie OF patriotism-it was a rams
horn calling upon the children
Of men to assemble and drive the
bastard from our borders, and
strike the shackles from our
limbs. Clarendon responded glo-
:iously, and in a beautiful grove
If pines, near where stands the
Hosiery Mill General
Wade Hampton, with his noble
oand of compatriots, Simpson,
Jonnor, Leaphart, Sims, Noise,
O'Connor and others, in
oratory, such as can on
y spring from sincere hearts
brought the message of good
cheer, and gave strength to the
arms of our men in their battle
:or freedom.
The pines have been felled,
and a mill which provides bread
:or toilers marks the spot; pas
sers by point it out to their
children as an historic spot,
where the great and glorious
Hampton stood, and proclaimed
by the eternal GOD l WILL oe
your Governor" +"
At Milford near Fulton stands
he Mansion of Gov. John Laur-
ems Manning, who belonged to a
family which furnished to South
Carolina five Governors, United
States Senators, and Congress-
nan. It was in Governor Man.
1ing's mansion, great men and
women have been entertained,
men of letters, poetry and song,
statesmen and divines-the arls-
;ocracy of America and the
of Europe. This man
sion was constructed after the
fashion of the homes of English
and it was recently
sold to a Mrs Thompson who
will use it as a winter resort.
Thus we have attempted to
point out our historic places:
such as we could gather, with
their stories and traditions: and
while we realize it is but frag-
mentary. yet we feel, we have
found and recorded important
lata which would have probably
been lost.