 Democratic support crystallized around the uncompromising "Straight-Outs," who had already launched the terrorist "Edgefield Plan," devised by General Martin W. Gary for South Carolina's Redemption.The massacre attracted nationwide attention (such as in "Harper's Weekly", August 12, 1876 and in "The New York Times").A much larger massacre of freedmen by white paramilitary groups took place from September 15 to 21 in the town of Ellenton, also in Aiken County , with estimates of 100 freedmen killed and a few whites.