October 30
1862: Gen. Ormsby Mitchel, founder of the Hilton Head Island village of Mitchelville, the first self-governing freedmen’s town, dies.
November
1717: A treaty signed in Charles Town (Charleston) with the lower Creeks formally ends the Yemassee War.
1862: The first African American regiment of the U.S. Army musters into service in South Carolina. The First Regiment of South Carolina Volunteers, commanded by Col. Thomas W. Higginson of Massachussetts, saw roughly 5,000 Blacks from South Carolina join the Union Army.
November 3
1874: Beaufort’s Robert Smalls is elected to the South Carolina Legislature.
November 5
1895: Annie Wigg Smith, second wife of Robert Smalls, dies.
2019: Joe DeVito is elected Mayor of the Town of Port Royal, defeating Mayor Pro-Temp Mary Beth Gray-Heyward by 22 points.
— Compiled by Mike McCombs
