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Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 21: (search)
ates manning a tete-de-pont and fort at Little Congaree bridge, and it was night before the head of the Federal column reached the Congaree in front of Columbia, and went into camp, shelled by a battery on the other side. That night the bridge was burned to check the Federal crossing, and next morning part of De Gress' Federal battery began firing upon the town. Slocum's corps was ordered to move toward Winnsboro and Howard to occupy Columbia, which one of his brigades did, by crossing the Saluda and Broad rivers. General Hampton evacuated Columbia on the 17th, and his forces took up their march northward intending to concentrate at Chesterville, or if not possible there, at Charlotte, N. C., and at the same time Cheatham's corps began its march in the same direction, from Columbia. A pontoon was built, on which Sherman crossed into Columbia on the 17th, and was met by the mayor, who surrendered the city and asked for its protection from pillage. The day, Sherman says, was clear
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Additional Sketches Illustrating the services of officers and Privates and patriotic citizens of South Carolina. (search)
s and patriotic citizens of South Carolina. Joel R. Abney Joel R. Abney, of Greenwood county, S. C., was born in that portion of Edgefield county now called Saluda, September 12, 1836. His parents were Joel and Martha (Coleman) Abney. His great-grandfather, Nathaniel Abney, was a soldier in the Revolutionary war, as was alned, and while waiting an opportunity to put his fortunes in his chosen profession of arms, he employed himself, in connection with his brother, in planting on Saluda river in Edgefield county. On November 12, 1870, while on his way to join his comrades in a reunion of the survivors' association at Columbia, the train of cars on homas' battalion, and afterward promoted to third lieutenant, in which position he served until the close of the war. He was captured at Cooley's bridge on the Saluda river in Laurens county, S. C., a few days after the surrender of General Lee, by an Ohio cavalry company, but the war being ended, he was immediately paroled. He p