Spin-Offs from the Big Show
While researching a collection of Civil War letters written by the Jeffers brothers of Greenwood, SC, I often find topics that are fascinating companions to the main story, but so complex that they grow out-of-bounds. I decided to put the antebellum thread in its own separate place, here, and build on the subject as I find more to add. There is no perfect way to do this - but for now this will give me room to build related stories, without inserting lengthy diversions into the main story developing over in Your Dear Son ~ Letters from the Civil War.
This blog, A Merchant of Hamburg, will be about their father, Henry Langford Jeffers, 1809-1890, and about Hamburg, SC, the town in which the Jeffers family lived during the brothers' childhood years (1835 -1855). Hamburg was not a typical rural antebellum village, and the father of the family left an unusual footprint there.
Concrete pilings from the old railroad bridge between Hamburg and Augusta, GA. Photo by Larry Gleason, Flickr.
Here I am using an inverted post-time display, to make the thread unroll in (roughly) chronological order. New posts will show up at the end. Since the amount of new material is limited, and I don't expect the total to be more than about 25 posts, this will work out conveniently to present the background story of the Jeffers family. I always welcome messages and new information.
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