by DrRoger | Jul 30, 2021 | Uncategorized
George Trenholm and his entourage took to the backroads and Indian trails on their way back to South Carolina from a burning Richmond. The less-traveled routes avoided Sherman’s cavalry, desperate refugees, and murderous highwaymen all searching for the millions...
by DrRoger | Jul 28, 2021 | Roger Newman Author
The pinnacle of haute cuisine in pre-war Charleston was the successful presentation of a silver tureen of terrapin stew. The name terrapin itself comes from an Algonquian Indian word that translates as “good tasting turtle.” Terrapin stew had been...
by DrRoger | Jul 26, 2021 | Roger Newman Author
The Sabal Palmetto tree is the state tree of South Carolina dating to a Revolutionary War battle where its soft logs protected Charleston from a British Naval bombardment. British shells sank into the porous wood rather than exploding the embattlements. The inner core...
by DrRoger | Jul 24, 2021 | Roger Newman Author
America’s sweet tooth did not appear with the advent of refined sugar. Antebellum Charleston was known for its sweet treats. “Monkey meat” was one of Charleston’s forgotten old school candies which probably emerged on our city streets in the...
by DrRoger | Jul 21, 2021 | Roger Newman Author
“Secessionist hectoring and outrage would flame, then smolder in the face of Charleston’s unhurried pace and conservative nature. Charleston’s charms provided too many diversions from rebellious indignation. Charleston’s elite balanced their...
by DrRoger | Jul 18, 2021 | Roger Newman Author
The current St Luke’s Chapel on the campus of the Medical University of South Carolina has a fascinating history. Prior to the Civil War, the property at the corner of Ashley Ave and Bee Street was a Federal arsenal. Union soldiers from Ft Sumter were ordered to...
by DrRoger | Jul 15, 2021 | Roger Newman Author
Why is Southern financier and shipping magnate, George Alfred Trenholm, memorialized on the stained glass window adjacent to the altar at St Luke’s Chapel on the grounds of the Medical University of South Carolina? To find out why and learn the history of this...
by DrRoger | Jul 12, 2021 | Roger Newman Author
I grew up just off Trenholm Road in Columbia, SC, and never once thought of where the name came from. George Alfred Trenholm was a financier, banker, cotton broker, shipping magnate, the richest man in the South, and Secretary of the Confederate Treasury when Richmond...
by DrRoger | Jul 9, 2021 | Roger Newman Author
Excited readers looking forward to reading Roger Newman’s “Will O’ the Wisp: Madness, War, and Recompense.” Don’t be the last one in your neighborhood to have a...
by DrRoger | Jul 7, 2021 | Roger Newman Author
The History Channel recently spent millions of dollars to find the lost Confederate gold at the bottom of Lake Michigan. Spoiler alert – It wasn’t there! Read Roger Newman’s “Will O’ the Wisp: Madness, War, and Recompense” for a...
