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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 16. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Heroes of the old Camden District, South Carolina, 1776-1861. an Address to the Survivors of Fairfield county, delivered at Winnsboro, S. C., September 1,1888. (search)
n; who had slaughtered Burnside at Fredericksburg and routed Hooker at Chancellorsville; who had held Fort Sumter against all comers; who had left their dead from Charleston to Gettysburg, from Gettysburg to Chickamauga, and from Chickamauga to Knoxville, and from Knoxville to the Wilderness; who had defeated a much greater man than Sherman—Grant himself—in every engagement from the Wilderness to Petersburg; had killed and wounded in a month more men in Grant's army than they had in their own; Knoxville to the Wilderness; who had defeated a much greater man than Sherman—Grant himself—in every engagement from the Wilderness to Petersburg; had killed and wounded in a month more men in Grant's army than they had in their own; who had yielded at last, not to Grant, nor to Sherman—not to arms, but to starvation? As General Preston has so well expressed it: Address before Survivors' Association, Columbia, 1870. We surrendered no army of 200,000 equipped soldiers as at Sedan, but, at Appomattox, a starving skeleton, with scarce blood enough left to stain the swords of our conquerors; our surrender was not to New England, but to death! It was on the wives and children of these men that Sherman warred.
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 16. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.45 (search)
The siege of Knoxville. report of the operations of Third South Carolina regiment from the 4th November to the 22d December, 1863. Headquarters Third South 14th November when we arrived at London, nor until the 17th, when we reached Knoxville, although after the 15th instant we were constantly in the presence of the ening upon that town. On the evening of the 17th, when within three miles of Knoxville, I was ordered by Brigadier-General Kershaw to cross the railroad on my left regret to state that he fell into the hands of the enemy when we retired from Knoxville. On the morning of the 18th, by order, I took my position in line of battle, nothing occupied us until the night of the 3d December, when we retired from Knoxville. We marched in the direction of Rogersville, the neighborhood of which we re, already referred to, you will observe a list of men left behind in front of Knoxville, who have fallen into the hands of the enemy. I am, very respectfully, Jam
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 16. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Index. (search)
Kershaw District, S. C., 14, 18, 26. Kershaw, Gen. J. B., 18, 377, 387, 388. Kettell, T. P., 429. Killingsworth, Lt., 380. Kilpatrick, Gen., 30. King's Battery, 57, 60. King's Mountain, Battle of, 5, 12. Kinston, Battle of, 25 Knoxville, Siege of, 387. Lacy, 10 Lalane, Lt. G. M., 192. Lamar, Col. J. B., 142, 145. Lamar, Hon. L. Q. C., 274, 318 Lamar's Battery, 143, 174. Lambert, married, Jack, 176. Lancaster co., S. C., 9, 14, 18, 22, 28. Lance, 104. Lanneau. Soley, Lt., 282. Somerset. Duke of, 218. Songs and Music in the South, 293. South Carolina Settlers of, 5, 13; volunteers First regiment infantry. 14, 18, 117, 138, 152, 246; Orr's, 15, 19; Second, 26; Third, at Chickamauga, 377; at Knoxville. 387; casualties in at Walthall's Station, 189; at Swift Creek and Drewry's Bluff, 19; at Clary's Farm, 194; Sixth, 15 16, 17 24; Seventh, 26; losses in battle. 28; Twelfth, 15 19; Thirteenth, 18, 19; Fourteenth, 18. 19; Fifteenth, 18, 19, 13