Six years after the war, James S.Pike, then in South Carolina, mentions cases which might be duplicated in nearly every old Southern community: "In the vicinity," he says, "lived a gentleman whose income when the war broke out was rated at $150,000 a year.

Not a vestige of his whole vast estate remains today.

Not far distant were the estates of a large proprietor and a well-known family, rich and distinguished for generations.

The slaves were gone.

The family is gone.