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    Here are some pictures of a FEW of the intresting items at the museum.  Sgt. William Jasper was James Moseley’s wife.  This link tells a little more about him.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Jasper.  Interestingly Fosters in MO live(d) in Jasper County.

    Civil war era artifacts found in the area.  According to Ola Jean Kelly, the Union area was occupied by Federal forces for ten years after the war was over.  The regiments used to occupy were black regiments.  Anyone familliar with the movie Glory will remember that while the 54th Mass. was a trianed and disciplined regiment, there were other units formed from “contraban” or recently freed slaves.    This seems to have been the sort of regiment that occupied Unionville  partly to intimidate the locals for their discipline was sketchy.  The cartidge case and the written discription tells of an occupying regiment that sacked the US Army’s own supply train (it was carrying liquor).  For the crime many of the black  “union soldiers” were put in jail.  The local population was outraged and I think it safe to say some brooding resentments toward the occupation boiled over and the KKK broke into the prison, seized the prisoners and linched them on main street.   Notice the handwritten account behind the cartidge case is titled the Ku Klux war.  More on the politics of the region at that time here: http://books.google.com/books?id=SHbV-7EyNUYC&pg=PA62&lpg=PA62&dq=Scott’s+Negro+Militia+Union+SC&source=bl&ots=kUjDFh8iTi&sig=DZsE6eztbnJjpf6zYG6Tm5fGvbo&hl=en&ei=7ZxUSu7zBYz7tge21-idCA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=10

    Also on display is the table upon which the representatives of the Confederate States of America signed their constitution.  I will be back to the museum to get a picture of Ola Jean Kelly with that desk.  One of the signers on behalf of South Carolina was J.S. Sims.  The same J. S. Sims that witnessed John Foster’s will.

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