Stephen R Wise Author

Lawrence S. Rowland, is distinguished professor emeritus of history at the University of South Carolina at Beaufort and past president of the South Carolina Historical Society. He is the co-author (with Stephen R. Wise) of The History of Beaufort County: South Carolina: Volume 1, 1514-1861 and Rebellion, Reconstruction, Redemption, 1861-1893: The History of Beaufort County Volume 2. Rowland lives on Dataw Island, South Carolina, with his wife, the former Margot Hunter. They have three grown children. Stephen R. Wise, is the director of the Parris Island Museum and the cultural resource manager for the Marine Corps Recruit Depot, and he serves on the editorial board for the South Carolina Historical Magazine. He is the author of two books published by the University of South Carolina Press--Lifeline of the Confederacy: Blockade Running during the Civil War and Gate of Hell: The Campaign for Charleston Harbour, 1863, named by the South Carolina Historical Society as the best book written on South Carolina History in 1994. Wise lives in Beaufort with his wife, Alice Parsons Wise.