Chapter 271876
Wade and Moses had arrived at Raleigh’s Folly several weeks after his mother’s funeral. News traveled slowly in the post-war south, and his mother had been dead for nearly two weeks by the time he’d heard about it. In fact, it was a miracle that he’d heard about the death at all. Moses’ Aunt Sukey had somehow managed to hang onto her little cabin during the reconstruction period, and she had sent word to them of Mrs. Raleigh’s passing. Savannah had experienced a bad Yellow Fever epidemic in 1820, and a worse one in 1854. The Yellow Fever epidemic of 1876 was the worst of all, and had brought over a thousand deaths to Savannah. It had spread north to the adjacent county, and Mrs. Raleigh had been one of its earliest victims.
“I don’t feel good about this place,” Moses said
