A South Carolina GAR Hall built by Black Civil War vets was sinking. Here's how it was saved.

Beaufort’s GAR post, which started in 1888, was founded by Black veterans, many of them former slaves on Sea Island plantations who had been soldiers with the First South Carolina Volunteer Regiment.

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