Gary: I would be glad to meet with you. When I started reading your post, before I got to your request to meet, I was thinking, "Man, I really would like to get to see that map!" I will speak with my friend Pat Hester and try to get some infomation on Lisbon. Most of that will be information form the 1920's onward. His family purchased the land along the river, on both sides, but I think after the war. The land was known as Hester's Bottoms, and the ferry was known as Hester's Ferry. I will get a copy of Mill's 1825 map of Abbeville District to find out what the historical name of the ferry was.

One more matter of interest, not Civil War related. The Savannah, above the Fall Line at Augusta, was full of rocks and shoals, and navigation on it was tenuous. However, when John C. Calhoun was Secretary of War, he was able to get Congress to appropriate money to improve navigation all the way to the head of navigation, which I always understood to be the junction of the Senaca and Tugaloo Rivers, between what is now Hart County, Ga., and Anderson County, S.C. I ahve heard it said that he actually had them improve the Senaca to his home at Fort Hill, at present Clemson, S.C., but I don't know that.
The channel was blasted out of the rocks, usually hugging either the Carolian or Georgia shore, so that tow ropes could be attached, I guess. My father, who was born in 1899 (we marry and breed late), took us to see remnants of the channel in McCormick County, and you can still see parts of it in the small section of the Savannah which is still free-flowing between the upper end of Lake Russell and the Hartwell Dam. There was a very dangerous shoal and rapid just above (or below) Hester's Ferry, which was the undoing of many a boatman. Apparently a keeper hydraulic. It also was used to dispose of bodies. I found an article on the shoal, and gave it to another firend who runs the furniture store in Mt. Carmel. I'll get a copy from him for you.
My Grandpa, who was a Confederate veteran, born in 1837, opened up a ferry in his later years which connected Plum Branch with the Pine Grove Section of Lincoln County. He died in 1837, so I of course never knew him; I didn't get here until 1943, which still makes me a little long in the fang. But before he died, Daddy used to feed us a lot of local lore, some of which stuck. I was only nine when he died, but he used to take us on long rambles through this section.
Let's get together after or during the holidays, dependent upon our respective schedules. I may go up to Wisconsin for a few days over the holidays to see my inlaws. Give me a call at 864-852-3416, or direct E-Mail me at Sturkey@wctel.net.
Lee