Land Disputes: Hilton Head Island/Mitchelville is Spared
Following Lincoln’s assassination, President Andrew Johnson repealed a special order which distributed abandoned land to
Mitchelville Starts to Decline
With the end of the Civil War, the Union Army began to leave the island,
Land Disputes: Drayton Returns to Reclaim Mitchelville
The Drayton Plantation (on which Mitchelville was located) was returned to the heirs of its
