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Allston, Pro-Confederacy Until Death

Governor Robert Francis Withers Allston was the 67th Governor of South Carolina. He attended West Point and later was elected to the South Carolina House of Representatives and later became the Governor. He remained in South Carolina when they seceded from the Union and was even a Confederate presidential elector.

His loyalty to the Confederacy should come as no surprise. Allston was one of the biggest slave-owners in the United States. He owned five plantations, spanning over 900 acres and enslaving over 600 black human beings. He even served on the Confederate Soldiers Board of Relief until he died in 1864.