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Alfred Roman, The military operations of General Beauregard in the war between the states, 1861 to 1865 75 7 Browse Search
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 53 5 Browse Search
J. William Jones, Christ in the camp, or religion in Lee's army 8 2 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 16. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 5 1 Browse Search
George P. Rowell and Company's American Newspaper Directory, containing accurate lists of all the newspapers and periodicals published in the United States and territories, and the dominion of Canada, and British Colonies of North America., together with a description of the towns and cities in which they are published. (ed. George P. Rowell and company) 4 0 Browse Search
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman . 4 0 Browse Search
General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War 4 0 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II. 4 0 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3. 4 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 12. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 4 0 Browse Search
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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)
e capital and arrangements were made for the transfer of prisoners of war from that city and Florence to Salisbury, N. C. General Hardee was ordered by General Beauregard to evacuate Charleston, and join in a general concentration of forces at Chesterville, whither the military stores at Columbia were hastily forwarded. President Davis, writing to Beauregard regarding the evacuation of Charleston, said: Such full preparation had been made that I had hoped for other and better results, and the ve 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,
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)
rom Bentonville to join President Davis at Chester, S. C., and then disbanded his men and returned ht. W. T. D. Cowsar, a retired business man of Chester, is a native of Lancaster county, born in 182f the Seventeenth infantry, is a native of Chester county, where he has resided since the war. He le-Mississippi department, was furloughed at Chester, S. C., for ten days, which practically ended its861 as a private of the Calhoun Guards, of Chester county, and was on duty at Charleston when Sumterevacuation of Columbia, and he was removed to Chester. The shells from Sherman's artillery had beg of paper money, it may be said that while at Chester he paid $1,300 for one month's board for hims Peter T. Hollis Peter T. Hollis, of Chester county, formerly color-bearer of the Twenty-fourte secretary of war and assigned to duty at Chester, S. C., with orders to expedite the forwarding ofto South Carolina in 1874 he taught school at Chester two years, was principal of the high school a[17 more...]