Oakland Plantation in Sumter County, South Carolina was established in 1735 with a royal land grant to William Sanders, who built a house and tavern (or ‘publick house’) here. The house was either extensively remodeled into or replaced by the present house, featuring a central hall, built c. 1816 for William Sanders IV and further enlarged by his son, William Sanders V shortly before the Civil War. On April 18, 1865, in the last days of the Civil War, this house was the headquarters of Confedera