Summit Plantation near Adams Run

On March 26, 1863, Fenton Hall wrote his wife Mary Jane — the sister of the Boyd brothers of Diamond Hill — again from his camp in Adams Run, South Carolina in the defense of Charleston and the coast of South Carolina from the northern invasion. He tells of his brother Davis having left his camp with Captain John Miot for Columbia. He also advises her and their neighbors to not plan cotton, rather, he said, “if you get iney thing planted let it be sumthing to eat.”

Boys of Diamond Hill

The Military Writers Society of America Gold Medal for History 2012.

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