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Savannah (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.1
e Federal fleets had along the coast of the revolted States during the Civil war was equally needed in Cornwallis' case—without it, Sherman's overland march from Savannah made eighty years afterwards might have had little better issue than that of Cornwallis through the same district. With such aid the modern commander establisheut did not reach Vicksburg. It was engaged in some skirmishing at Jackson, but nothing more. From Mississippi the brigade was ordered to the Isle of Hope, near Savannah, where it was encamped during the winter of 1863-‘64. From Savannah this regiment was sent to Charleston, where it furnished its details for the garrison at ForSavannah this regiment was sent to Charleston, where it furnished its details for the garrison at Fort Sumter, and thence it rejoined the Army of Northern Virginia in the spring of 1864 under the command of General W. S. Walker. Stephen Elliot, who had so nobly defended Fort Sumter and fought it to the water's edge, was appointed brigadier-general, and assigned to the command of this brigade. It was while under his command th
Gaines Mill (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.1
teenth South CarolinaManassas28418967 Twenty-third South CarolinaManassas22514966 Fourteenth GeorgiaMechanicsville51433565 Sixteenth MississippiAntietam22814463 Fifteenth VirginiaAntietam1287558 Eighteenth GeorgiaAntietam 17610157 Tenth GeorgiaAntietam1478356 Twelfth TennesseeStone River29216456 Sixteenth TennesseeStone River37720756 Third AlabamaMalvern Hill35420056 Seventh North CarolinaSeven Days45025356 Eighteenth North CarolinaSeven Days39622456 First South Carolina RiflesGaines' Mill53730656 Fourth North CarolinaFair Oaks67836954 Twelfth South CarolinaManassas 27014654 Fourth TexasAntietam20010753 Twenty-seventh TennesseeChaplin Hills21011253 First South Carolina Manassas28315153 Forty-ninth VirginiaFair Oaks42422452 Twelfth AlabamaFair Oaks40821552 Seventh South CarolinaAntietam26814052 Seventh TexasRaymond 30615852 Eleventh AlabamaGlendale 35718151 If this table is correct, and, no doubt, it is, it shows that Antietam, or Sharpsburg, was, on our side a
Stone River (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.1
s follows: regiment.battle.Present in action.Killed and Wounded.Per Cent. First TexasAntietam22618682 Twenty-first GeorgiaManassas24218476 Eighth TennesseeStone River44430669 Seventeenth South CarolinaManassas28418967 Twenty-third South CarolinaManassas22514966 Fourteenth GeorgiaMechanicsville51433565 Sixteenth MississippiAntietam22814463 Fifteenth VirginiaAntietam1287558 Eighteenth GeorgiaAntietam 17610157 Tenth GeorgiaAntietam1478356 Twelfth TennesseeStone River29216456 Sixteenth TennesseeStone River37720756 Third AlabamaMalvern Hill35420056 Seventh North CarolinaSeven Days45025356 Eighteenth North CarolinaSeven Days39622456 First South Stone River37720756 Third AlabamaMalvern Hill35420056 Seventh North CarolinaSeven Days45025356 Eighteenth North CarolinaSeven Days39622456 First South Carolina RiflesGaines' Mill53730656 Fourth North CarolinaFair Oaks67836954 Twelfth South CarolinaManassas 27014654 Fourth TexasAntietam20010753 Twenty-seventh TennesseeChaplin Hills21011253 First South Carolina Manassas28315153 Forty-ninth VirginiaFair Oaks42422452 Twelfth AlabamaFair Oaks40821552 Seventh South CarolinaAnti
Meadow Mills (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.1
for an armed military force of ten regiments, to be organized into a division of two or more brigades. One of these regiments, the Sixth, was raised from the counties of Chester and Fairfield. The officers were Colonel James H. Rion, Lieutenant-Colonel A. J. Secrest and Major Thomas W. Woodward. The companies from Fairfield were: Fairfield Fencibles, Captain John Bratton; Boyd Guards, Captain J. N. Shedd; Little Run Guards, Captain J. M. Brice; Buck Head Guards, Captain E. J. Means; Cedar Creek Rifles, Captain J. R. Harrison. The companies from Chester were: Chester Blues, Captain E. C. McLure; Captain G. L. Strait's company, Captain J. A. Walker's company, Captain O. Harden's company, and Captain J. Mike Brown's company. Colonel Rion resigned in June, 1861, and the regiment went to Virginia under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Secrest. Upon the application of the regiment, Colonel Charles S. Winder (who afterwards became brigadier-general and was killed at Cedar Run o
Sharpsburg (Maryland, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.1
men to bear him off, but that Colonel Means refused to allow them to make the effort as the enemy was in a short distance of him and still advancing. Colonel Means died from the effects of the wound. Thus the son soon followed his father. At Sharpsburg, on the 17th, this regiment had been reduced by casualties and marching to but fifty-nine present, including officers, rank and file and ambulance corps. Of this small number nineteen were killed and wounded. After the Maryland campaign EvaVirginiaFair Oaks42422452 Twelfth AlabamaFair Oaks40821552 Seventh South CarolinaAntietam26814052 Seventh TexasRaymond 30615852 Eleventh AlabamaGlendale 35718151 If this table is correct, and, no doubt, it is, it shows that Antietam, or Sharpsburg, was, on our side at least, the hardest fought field of the war, for of the twenty-six instances of greatest losses, seven of them occurred in that battle; but it shows, also, that for South Carolina troops the Second Manassas was the severest
Maryland (Maryland, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.1
again with Sumter on one of his bold, and this time, for a while at least, successful expeditions. Sumter, with Colonel Thomas Taylor and a detachment of the Maryland Line, under Colonel Woodford, had succeeded in capturing the British convoy near Camden Ferry, against which he had been sent on the very day upon which Gates, wtate in the Confederacy. It belonged to what might be called, not disrespectfully, the tramp brigade. It saw service in South Carolina. It fought in Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina and Mississippi. It traversed Alabama and Georgia, and served for some time on the Island of Hope, in the latter State, including in its servicedays after, lamented not only by every man in his command but by every good citizen of South Carolina. The next engagement of the Seventeenth regiment was in Maryland, at Boonesboro, on the 14th September, in which out of 141 present the regiment lost sixty-one killed, wounded and missing. In this battle Lieutenant-Colonel R.
Antrim (Michigan, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.1
. But the heroism of our troops was not confined to their leaders. The descendants of those, who had fought under the Brattons and McLures in the Revolution, were as brave as their leaders and as conscientious in the discharge of their duty. In that old Waxhaw churchyard I have seen this quaint inscription upon a stone: Here lies the body of William Blair, who departed this life in the sixty-fourth year of his age on the 2d July, A. D, 1821, at 9 P. M. He was born in the county of Antrim, Ireland, on the 24th March, 1759. When about thirteen years old he came with his father to this country, where he resided till his death. He was a Revolutionary patriot, and in the humble station of private soldier and wagon master, he contributed more to the establishment of American independence than many whose names are proudly emblazoned on the page of history. In the language of Pope, The noblest work of God is an honest man. There was more truth in this old homely epitaph p
William Strother (search for this): chapter 1.1
Fort Moultrie. Its object was to provide the means of education for the orphan left forlorn and the children of indigent parents in the remote parts of the State. In the list of its members will be found, for the first time in the history of the State, commingled the names of the upper and lower country—Scotch-Irish Presbyterians, Huguenots, and Churchmen combining in the midst of war in the cause of education. Its first president was Colonel John Winn, and its directors were General William Strother and Captain Robert Ellison. Colonel Thomas Taylor and Captain Thomas Woodward were among the first signers of the Constitution. Among the names of its members were Andrew Pickens, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, and four sons of Anthony Hampton—Henry, Edward, Richard, and Wade—and the brother of Anthony, John Hampton. The teacher at this time was, it is believed, Mr. William Humphreys. Dr. Howe, in his History of the Presbyterian Church, says: At what time this school was discontinue<
J. W. Walker (search for this): chapter 1.1
For he was one of those who was not carried into the war by the rushing tide of enthusiasm; he was one of those true martyrs to our cause, who conscientiously and decidedly opposed to secession, yet, when the State in her sovereignty had acted, did not hesitate to obey her, but was amongst the very first to step to the front in her defence. To such men, what meed of praise can we award adequate to their self-sacrifice? There fell, too, in this battle Captains Phinney, W. B. Lyles and J. W. Walker; and Sergeant-Major Beverly W. Means, Librarian of the South Carolina College, was mortally wounded. Then followed the battles around Richmond, the Second Manassas and the Pennsylvania campaign, in all which this regiment bore its part with its accustomed gallantry. Then your winter of 1862-‘63 at the Blackwater, thereby missing Chancellorsville; then your return to the Army of Northern Virginia, the Pennsylvania campaign and the battle of Gettysburg, and your transfer with Longstreet
Harper (search for this): chapter 1.1
friends at the North, and, my comrades, we have warm and earnest friends there, beg us to forget and forgive the injuries necessarily incident to the war we ourselves dared, I heartily respond. But when I come across such a history of the war as Harper's Pictorial History of the Rebellion, and see there the pictures of the burning of Columbia and Winnsboro, and read the unpitying and exultant comments upon the misery they depict, I can feel it no part of Christian or patriotic duty to suppress s had been found in the road with a label by Hampton's cavalry, that such would be the fate of all Foragers. Whereupon Sherman, it is said, directed immediate retaliation, and is reported as having delivered himself of these heroic sentiments: Harper's Pictorial History of the Rebellion, Vol. II, p. 119. We have a perfect right to the products of the country we overrun, and may collect them by forage or otherwise. Let the people know that the war is now against them, because their army
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