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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
Female confederate soldier belonging to a Louisiana regiment, described by the British colonel Arthur Fremantle, who travelled through the confederacy for over 3 months in 1863 as a war tourist. He wrote; "A goodish-looking woman was pointed out to in my car as having served as a private soldier in the battles of Perryville and Murfreesboro ...
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.
Monument dedicated by the UDC on August 8, 1908, Bentonville, Arkansas Battlefield memorial dedicated by the UDC on September 19, 1928 Across the Southern United States, associations were founded after the Civil War, chiefly by women, to organize burials of Confederate soldiers, establish and care for permanent cemeteries, organize commemorative ceremonies, and sponsor impressive monuments as ...
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.
Presidents of local LMAs from Alabama, Georgia, and South Carolina. A Ladies' Memorial Association (LMA) is a type of organization for women that sprang up all over the American South in the years after the American Civil War. Typically, these were organizations by and for women, whose goal was to raise monuments in Confederate soldiers honor.
Members of the Confederate House of Representatives from South Carolina (9 P) Pages in category "People of South Carolina in the American Civil War" The following 130 pages are in this category, out of 130 total.
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.