Pember, Phoebe YatesIn November 1862 Pember was approached by Mrs. George W. Randolph, wife of the Confederate secretary of war. She asked Pember to serve as matron in Chimborazo Hospital, a complex of military hospitals on the outskirts of Richmond, Virginia.
Petigru, James LouisIn the 1850s Petigru’s most distinctive equity practice relied heavily on arbitration and mediation to avoid erratic decisions from judges he considered inept
Pickens, Francis WilkinsonPickens’s public career began in college when he authored a series of articles in the Charleston Mercury espousing state sovereignty and questioning the legality of a protective tariff.
Pinckney, CharlesIn Congress, Pinckney quickly made a name for himself. He became friends with James Monroe and served with the Virginian on a committee responsible for presenting Thomas Jefferson’s ordinances regarding the Northwest Territory.
Pinckney, Charles CotesworthFollowing the war, Pinckney devoted his efforts toward rebuilding his law practice and his rice plantations.
Pinckney, Eliza LucasIndigo had been considered to be a potentially valuable crop for Carolina since the earliest colonizing, and stands of it were regularly included on many plantations. In the 1740s Eliza was the link in demonstrating that Carolina could produce a superior type.
Pinckney, Henry LaurensPinckney launched a stellar legislative career in 1816 when St. Philip’s and St. Michael’s Parishes elected him to the South Carolina House of Representatives.
Pinckney, Josephine Lyons ScottPinckney played a key role in the literary revival that swept through the South after World War I.
Pinckney, Maria HenriettaIn her tract Pinckney posed a series of thirty-four questions and answers designed to summarize the southern case for nullification, which she defined as “the Veto of a Sovereign State on an unconstitutional law of Congress.”
Pinckney, ThomasAt the outbreak of war in 1775, Pinckney became a captain in the First South Carolina Continental regiment and was later promoted to major.
PiracyPiracy flourished on the South Carolina coast chiefly in two periods: the early proprietary years (1670–1700) and at the end of the “Golden Age of Piracy” (1716–1720).
Pocotaligo, Battle ofIn the fall of 1862, the Union commander of the Department of the South, General Ormsby McKnight Mitchel, planned an operation to break the railroad connections between Charleston and Savannah at the headwaters of the Broad River near the towns of Pocotaligo and Coosawhatchie.
Poetry Society of South CarolinaThis cultural organization helped revive the arts, not just in Charleston and South Carolina, but in the South in general.
Poinsett, Joel RobertsIn 1819 Poinsett became president of the state Board of Public Works, actively supervising canals and roads built to link Charleston with the undeveloped interior, including a road through the Saluda Gap that brought trade from North Carolina and Tennessee.
Pollitzer sistersBorn in Charleston, Carrie, Mabel, and Anita Pollitzer were artists, activists, and social reformers.
PoloThe first polo game in South Carolina was played on March 27, 1882, in Aiken, which has remained a major center for the sport.
Poppenheim, Mary Barnett, and Louisa Bouknight PoppenheimThe Poppenheims helped bring the burgeoning women’s club movement to Charleston, as founding members and officers of the Century Club, the Civic Club, the Intercollegiate Club, and the Charleston City Federation of Clubs.
Porcher, Francis PeyreA slaveowner and supporter of secession, Porcher volunteered as a surgeon for the Confederate army in 1861, serving first in an army hospital in Norfolk, Virginia, and later in Petersburg, Virginia.
Port Royal Naval StationThe conquest of the Sea Islands by a Union fleet in November 1861 was the beginning of more than a century of U.S. naval involvement with Port Royal Sound.
Porter-Gaud SchoolIn the 1950s, after years of declining enrollments as public schools gained broad acceptance, Porter Academy faced a grave crisis. Officials sold off assets such as football uniforms and jettisoned the military and high school departments just to survive.