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South Carolina was the first state to secede from the Union in December 1860, and was one of the founding member states of the Confederacy in February 1861. The bombardment of the beleaguered U.S. garrison at Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor on April 12, 1861, is generally recognized as the first military engagement of the war.
Confederate War Memorial (1883) [1] Richard Kirkland Memorial Fountain (1911) [1] Charleston, South Carolina. Charleston: Confederate Defenders of Charleston - Contains two bronze allegorical statues. The male figure, nude, is the defending warrior, with a sword in his right hand and a shield bearing the Seal of South Carolina in his left hand ...
Cotton was the lifeblood of the Columbia community, as before the Civil War, directly or indirectly, virtually all of the city's commercial and economic activity was related to cotton. [2] Columbia's First Baptist Church hosted the South Carolina Secession Convention on December 17, 1860, with delegates selected a month earlier at Secession Hill.
Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. Download coordinates as: KML; GPX (all coordinates) ... Military operations of the American Civil War in South Carolina (4 C ...
Rivers Bridge State Historic Site, also known as Rivers Bridge State Park, located near Ehrhardt, a small town in Bamberg County, South Carolina, is the site of an important Civil War battle. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It is in this area that General William T. Sherman engaged the Confederate Army on his advance from Savannah , and after two days of battle ...
Charleston, South Carolina, played a pivotal role at the start of the American Civil War as a stronghold of secession and an important Atlantic port for the Confederate States of America. The first shots of the conflict were fired there by cadets of The Citadel , who aimed to prevent a ship from resupplying the U.S. Army soldiers garrisoned at ...
Honey Hill-Boyd's Neck Battlefield is a historic site located near Ridgeland, Jasper County, South Carolina.The boundary encompasses the site of the American Civil War Battle of Honey Hill, November 30, 1864, as well as the Federal enclave on Boyd's Neck and other related areas of the Honey Hill campaign, November 29, 1864 to January 11, 1865.
Historical marker, Battle of Pocotaligo, Point South Drive (the frontage road along northbound US 17) west of the northeastern terminus at Yemassee Road in Point South, South Carolina. Colonel William S. Walker, the Confederate commander responsible for defending the railroad, called for reinforcement from Savannah and Charleston. He deployed ...