City - Gillisonville State - SC Country - United States
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The Baptist Church was spared because Union troops used the church as a headquarters during the Civil War. Services are still held in the church from time to time. The walls of its old slave gallery in the back are defaced by thousands of scribbled names. Its silver communion service, still in use and cared for by a member in the village, bares an inscription scratched by a self termed "Yankee soldier." It reads: ?War of 1861-2-3-4. Feb. 1865 This done by a Yankee soldier.? Gillisonville was the governmental seat of Beaufort District when the church building was completed in 1838. The pulpit, in fact, had once been the judge?s seat. All that has been changed on this simple but beautiful church is the steeple, which was demolished by a Union cannon during the Civil War. Box pews and a slave gallery in the rear remains today. In the church cemetery General Moore is buried, and also Richard James Davant, who was a member of the Secession Convention.
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