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The Rev. Edward B. Alston has always answered the call, presiding over an unknown number of funerals and weddings, and baptizing five generations in a single family.
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.