In that incursion from St. Andrews Bay up through Econfina in July 1864, Yankee soldiers burned the house of my great great grandparents Flavious Josephus Gainer and Mary O'Neal Gainer near Orange Hill. Mary and a nanny tied a few clothes in a diaper and hid them in a tree. The house and all their belongings burned, except the things hidden in the tree.
Their daughter Minerva later married Sam's brother Murdock McQuagge. Minerva used to tell her children that the old folks and children came down to the bay to dry saltwater in vats to get salt for the Confederate Army when she was about 5 years old.