Category: History - American
The writer of the following sketch does not attempt, in the space assigned him, to give a complete history of the various commands of Carolinians, who for four years did gallant and noble service in the armies of the Confederacy.
After thoroughly destroying Atlanta, save its mere dwelling-houses, as is stated in his official report, Gen. W. T. Sherman began his march through Georgia on November 15, 1864,...
23. CHAPTER III.In Virginia, Gen. George B. McClellan had been placed in command of the great army which he had fully organized, and his headquarters had been established at Fort Monroe early i...
21. CHAPTER I.From the time that the election of the President was declared, early in November, 1860, the military spirit of the people of South Carolina was thoroughly awake. Secession from...
30. CHAPTER IX.EARLY in October, General Lee, from his camp at Winchester, in the Virginia valley, directed J. E. B. Stuart to take a picked force of 1,500 cavalry, cross the Potomac above Wil...
35. CHAPTER XIV.The bloody repulse of the assault on Battery Wagner, July 11th, left General Gillmore in possession of two-thirds of the island, Colonel Graham holding the northern end for abou...
29. m. With Longstreet were the South Carolina brigades of Evans andJenkins, the Fifteenth South Carolina with Drayton, and the Hampton legion with Wofford. Evans' brigade, under Col. P. F. Stevens, was marched to the left of General Hill's batt...
36. CHAPTER XV.The spring had gone and summer had opened in Virginia, when, seeing no indications of aggressive movement on the part of the Federal army lying opposite him on the Rappahannock,...
27. CHAPTER VII.We left the South Carolinians of the army of Northern Virginia in front of McClellan at Malvern hill, whence the Federal army retreated and took shelter under the guns of the fl...
39. CHAPTER XVII.On August 24, 1863, General Gillmore, in a communication to the general-in-chief of the United States armies, said: "I have the honor to report the practical demolition of Fort...
41. CHAPTER XIX.Simultaneous with the crossing of the Rapidan river in Virginia by the Federal army of Meade, Gen. W. T. Sherman, in command of the armies of the Cumberland, Tennessee and Ohio,...
40. CHAPTER XVIII.Following the battle of Chickamauga, Bragg's army occupied Lookout mountain and Missionary ridge, beleaguering Rosecrans, whose troops soon began to suffer for want of food. Lon...
24. CHAPTER IV.At the close of the spring of 1862, the Federal army in South Carolina, under General Hunter, had not made lodgment on the mainland. The enemy's gunboats, commanding the waters...
25. CHAPTER V.On the 29th of August, General Beauregard, who had been in command of the army in Mississippi, was ordered to take charge in South Carolina. General Pemberton was directed to re...
31. CHAPTER X.The operations of the Federal naval and land forces on the coast of South Carolina at the beginning of the year 1863, pointed to an attack upon either Charleston or Savannah. Ge...
22. CHAPTER II.AFFAIRS ON THE COAST--LOSS OF PORT ROYAL HARBOR--GEN. R. E. LEE IN COMMAND OF THE DEPARTMENT--LANDING OF FEDERALS AT PORT ROYAL FERRY--GALLANT FIGHT ON EDISTO ISLAND--GENERAL PE...
34. CHAPTER XIII.The attempt of Admiral Du Pont and Major-General Hunter to reduce and capture the outer defenses of Charleston on April 7, 1863, having been signally repulsed, and the ironclad...
37. CHAPTER XVI.The armies of Generals Bragg and Rosecrans, which were to fight the battle of Chickamauga on the 19th and 20th of September, 1863, were widely separated in the early part of Aug...
33. CHAPTER XII.After the defeat of General Burnside's attempt to drive the Confederate army from its position in rear of Fredericksburg, both armies went into winter quarters, and remained ina...
32. CHAPTER XI.On May 2d the secretary of war telegraphed General Beauregard as follows: "Advices show the enemy abandoning their attack on the eastern coasts and concentrating great forces on...
26. CHAPTER VI.In April, 1862, following the battle of Shiloh, in response to the urgent call of General Beauregard, at Corinth, Miss., for troops to reinforce the army he then commanded, the...
42. CHAPTER XX.Elliott's brigade of Bushrod Johnson's division, Col. Fitz William McMaster commanding the brigade: Seventeenth regiment, Maj. John R. Culp; Eighteenth, Capt. R. H. Glenn; Twent...
28. CHAPTER VIII.General Lee marched his victorious army from the plains and hills of Manassas to Leesburg, and crossed into Maryland, fording the Potomac between September 4th and 7th, and conc...
38. m. Gracie and Kelly, from Preston's; McNair, with Culpeper's battery,from Johnson's; Anderson from Hindman's, and Law from Hood's, with Kershaw's brigade, all directed by Kershaw, moved on the front and east of Snodgrass, while Hindman with Manig...
20. CHAPTER XXI. Battle of Honey Hill--Sherman's AdvanceThe writer of the following sketch does not attempt, in the space assigned him, to give a complete history of the various commands of Carolinians, who for four years did gallant...
2. CHAPTER II. Affairs on the Coast--Loss of Port Royal Harbor--Gen.1. CHAPTER I. Spirit of Secession--The State Militia--Charleston12. CHAPTER XIII. Operations in South Carolina--Opening of16. CHAPTER XVII. The Siege of Charleston--Continued Bombardment5. CHAPTER V. General Beauregard in Command--The Defenses10. CHAPTER X. Operations in South Carolina, Spring of 1863--Capture17. CHAPTER XVIII. South Carolinians with Longstreet and18. CHAPTER XIX. The Atlanta Campaign--Battles around3. CHAPTER III. South Carolinians in Virginia--Battle of4. CHAPTER IV. The Coast of South Carolina, Summer of 1862--Operations9. CHAPTER IX. Hampton's Cavalry in the Maryland Raid--The13. CHAPTER XIV. Second Assault on Battery Wagner--Siege19. CHAPTER XX. The Closing Scenes in Virginia--Siege of6. CHAPTER VI. South Carolinians in the West--Manigault's7. CHAPTER VII. With Lee in Northern Virginia, 1862--The8. CHAPTER VIII. The Maryland Campaign--The South11. CHAPTER XII. South Carolinians in the Chancellorsville14. CHAPTER XV. The Gettysburg Campaign--Gallant Service15. CHAPTER XVI. South Carolinians at Chickamauga--Organization