THE LEGEND OF SWELL BRANCH
The years following the American Civil War were particularly unjust to those who called the South home. Most families had suffered tremendous loss to the horrors of a war they didn''t fully understand. Many Southern homesteads could not protect themselves from the horde of profiteers sweeping South at war''s end, good and bad alike, all hoping to reap the spoils of a defeated South. Some by legal ...
The years following the American Civil War were particularly unjust to those who called the South home. Most families had suffered tremendous loss to the horrors of a war they didn''t fully understand. Many Southern homesteads could not protect themselves from the horde of profiteers sweeping South at war''s end, good and bad alike, all hoping to reap the spoils of a defeated South. Some by legal ...
