CHAPTER XXI. Battle of Honey Hill--Sherman's Advance

into South Carolina--Organization of the Confederate Forces--Burning of Columbia--Battles of Averasboro and Bentonville--Conclusion 354

BIOGRAPHICAL 373

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

FACING PAGE.

BEE, BARNARD E. 392

BONHAM, M. L. 392

BRATTON, JOHN 392

BUTLER, M. C. 380, 392

CAPERS, ELLISON 1, 409

CHARLESTON, DEFENSES (Map) Between pages 296 and 297

CHESTNUT, JAMES 392

CONNOR, JAMES 416

DRAYTON, THOS. F. 392

DUNOVANT, JOHN 392

ELLIOTT, STEPHEN, JR. 392

EVANS, N. G. 392

FERGUSON, S. W. 416

GARY, M. W. 392

GIST, S. R. 416

GREGG, MAXCY 416

HAGOOD, JOHNSON 416

HONEY HILL, BATTLE (Map) 356

HUGER, BENJAMIN 409

JENKINS, MICAH 416

JONES, DAVID R. 416

KENNEDY, JOHN D. 416

KERSHAW, J. B. 409

LOGAN, J. M. 416

MCGOWAN, SAMUEL 409

MANIGAULT, A. M. 409

PERRIN, ABNER 409

PRESTON, JOHN S. 416

RIPLEY, ROSWELL S. 409

SOUTH CAROLINA (Map) Between pages 372 and 373

STEVENS, C. H. 409

VILLEPIGUE, J. B. 409

WALLACE, W. H. 409

SOUTH CAROLINA

BY

BRIG.-GEN. ELLISON CAPERS.

INTRODUCTORY.

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.

A faithful record of their names alone would fill the pages of a volume, and to write a history of their marches and battles, their wounds and suffering, their willing sacrifices, and their patient endurance, would demand more accurate knowledge, more time and more ability than the author of this sketch can command.

He trusts that in the brief history which follows he has been able to show that South Carolina did her duty to herself and to the Southern Confederacy, and did it nobly.