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When my State seceded I thought I must go too, and so I left Massachusetts and returned to South Carolina.
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gutenberg.orgGeorge Boutwell: “When my State seceded I thought I must go too, and so I left Massachusetts and returned to South Carolina.”
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Boutwell shares his personal experience of leaving Massachusetts to return to South Carolina during the Civil War.
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