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Captain James Dugan Gist of the South Carolina Volunteers Private Eli Franklin of Company B, 1st South Carolina Infantry Regiment Private Amos Guise of Co. H, 3rd South Carolina Infantry Regiment Civil War veteran Masten Roe, Co. B, 14th South Carolina Infantry, in U.C.V. uniform with medals
Only 12 Confederate soldiers were killed, as opposed to 339 losses for the U.S. side. [2] The Second Battle of Fort Wagner , a week later, is better known. It was the Union attack on July 18, 1863, led by the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry , one of the first major American military units made up of black soldiers.
South Carolina's Confederate Dead (1879), also known as the South Carolina Soldiers Monument. [4] It was unveiled before a crowd of 15,000. [5] The monument was largely destroyed by lightning in 1882, but was replaced by the state two years later. [5] It is positioned on the northern end of the State House grounds.
During their military operations in Florida, the 1st South Carolina liberated enslaved people and recruited them into the Union Army. [22] The 1st South Carolina Volunteer Infantry regiment did an expedition up the St. Mary's River along the Georgia-Florida state line which lasted from January 23 to February 1, 1863.
The 10th South Carolina Infantry Regiment was a Confederate volunteer infantry unit from the state of South Carolina during the American Civil War. It fought with the Army of Tennessee in the Western Theater for the duration of the war. Originally organized to serve for twelve months it was reorganized for the war in 1862.
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.
The Florence Stockade, also known as The Stockade or the Confederate States Military Prison at Florence, was a Confederate prisoner-of-war camp located on the outskirts of Florence, South Carolina, during the American Civil War. It operated from September 1864 through February 1865; during this time, as many as 18,000 Union soldiers were ...
The men were formally mustered into Confederate service as the 16th Battalion, South Carolina Cavalry on July 23, 1862. The 6th South Carolina Cavalry was then organized in January 1863, using the 16th Battalion as its nucleus. Some of the men were from Columbia, including several students from The Citadel Academy.