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The Hulls of Georgia
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 1828 - 1900 (71 years)
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| Name |
Christopher Simonton Brice [1] |
| Born |
25 Apr 1828 |
Fairfield Co., SC  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Died |
4 Mar 1900 |
Lancaster Co, SC [1] |
| Buried |
Douglass, Fairfield Co, SC |
| Notes |
- From Marion Morris Wood's "My Life Story" 1882:
My mother's father, Christopher Simonton Brice, also fought under Robert E. Lee in Virginia and during those war years my mother (age 4) and her mother, Margaret Gooch, went to live with her maternal grandfather, Henry Gooch, near Chester, SC.
My mother was eight years told when Sherman arrived and camped on her grandfather's plantation and although she lived to be ninety-three years old, she always remembered the Sherman experiences. She saw her grandfather hanged from his own stairwell because he refused to tell the Yankees where his silver was hidden. He was cut down before he died, blue in the face. She saw every living creature that the soldiers didn't eat shot down in the yard. She saw her grandfather's blue damask curtains snatched from the windows and used as saddlebags by Sherman and his men. She saw the soldiers carry out every china dish in the house, stand them up against the trees and use them for targets. I myself have the only remaining dish, a beautiful platter, rescued I don't know how, and I treasure it immensely.
Sherman knew the war was already won, the South on her knees, broken and bleeding, before he started his raid. But he was willing to make war on the helpless women and children. He himself said "I've cut a swath through the South 200 miles long and 60 miles wide, and if a crow wants to fly over it, he will have to carry his lunch with him." He excused his savage action by saying "War is Hell." Even Winston Churchill says in his autobiography that the North was more to blame than the South.
Is it any wonder my mother always called it the Uncivil war, and that my father always told her she would die an unreconstructed rebel?
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| Person ID |
I0065 |
Hull |
| Last Modified |
11 Feb 2021 |
| Father |
Robert Brice, b. 8 Oct 1791, Fairfield Co., SC , d. 2 Apr 1871, Fairfield Co., SC (Age 79 years) |
| Mother |
Margaret Simonton, b. 20 Jun 1801, Fairfield Co., SC , d. 13 Feb 1843, Little River, Fairfield Co., SC (Age 41 years) |
| Married |
25 Dec 1817 |
| Family ID |
F025 |
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