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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.
The Civil War in North Carolina. North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources. Carbone, John S. (2001). The Civil War in Coastal North Carolina. North Carolina Division of Archives and History. Clinard, Karen L.; Richard Russell, eds. (2008). Fear in North Carolina: The Civil War Journals and Letters of the Henry Family. Winston-Salem, NC ...
Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2021. ISBN 1-643-36245-3. Moore, Mark A., with Jessica A. Bandel and Michael Hill. The Old North State at War: The North Carolina Civil War Atlas. Raleigh: North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources, Office of Archives and History, 2015. ISBN 978-0-86526-471-7. Smith, Mark A., and Wade Sokolosky.
Before the battle, on February 1, General Sherman began his invasion of South Carolina. [4] During the campaign he ordered Hugh Judson Kilpatrick and his cavalry corps from the Fifth U.S Cavalry to march through South Carolina. [4] [5] By February 5, he crossed into Aiken County where he would engage in battle with Joseph Wheeler's cavalry corps.
The Battle of South Mills, also known as the Battle of Camden, took place on April 19, 1862 in Camden County, North Carolina as part of Union Army Maj. Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside's North Carolina expedition during the American Civil War.
Map of White Hall Battlefield core and study areas by the American Battlefield Protection Program. On December 15, Brig. Gen. John G. Foster's Union troops reached White Hall where Brig. Gen. Beverly Robertson had taken command of Confederate militia holding the north bank of the Neuse River. There was some skirmishing as the Federals set up ...
66th North Carolina/10th North Carolina Battalion, Colonel John H. Nethercutt; Logan's Brigade: Brigadier General Thomas M. Logan. 1st South Carolina Cavalry: Lieutenant James A. Ratchford; 2nd South Carolina Cavalry; 3rd South Carolina Cavalry: Colonel Charles J. Colcock; Earle's (South Carolina) Battery: Captain William Earle
South Carolina is named after King Charles I of England.Carolina is taken from the Latin word for "Charles", Carolus. South Carolina was formed in 1712. By the end of the 16th century, the Spanish and French had left the area of South Carolina after several reconnaissance missions, expeditions and failed colonization attempts, notably the short-living French outpost of Charlesfort followed by ...