Facing Sherman in South Carolina
Title | Facing Sherman in South Carolina PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher G. Crabb |
Publisher | Civil War |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781609490157 |
Major General William T. Sherman's march from Savannah, Georgia, to Columbia, South Carolina, was marked by a battle with an unrelenting enemy: the swamps of the Palmetto State. For more than two weeks, Sherman's veterans faced an unforgiving quagmire, coupled by daily skirmishes with gallant bands of outnumbered Confederates. Along the way, a ruined countryside and wrecked towns marked the path of an army unlike any "since the days of Julius Caesar." It would take an army as adept with the axe as they were with the rifle to tame the rivers, tributaries and swamps of the South Carolina Lowcountry. Join historian Chris Crabb as he traces the steps of Sherman's sixty-thousand-man army in its "amphibious march" from Beaufort to Columbia.
Facing Sherman in South Carolina
Title | Facing Sherman in South Carolina PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher G. Crabb |
Publisher | Arcadia Publishing |
Pages | 181 |
Release | 2010-12-10 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1614230641 |
Major General William T. Sherman's march from Savannah, Georgia, to Columbia, South Carolina, was marked by a battle with an unrelenting enemy: the swamps of the Palmetto State. For more than two weeks, Sherman's veterans faced an unforgiving quagmire, coupled by daily skirmishes with gallant bands of outnumbered Confederates. Along the way, a ruined countryside and wrecked towns marked the path of an army unlike any "since the days of Julius Caesar." It would take an army as adept with the axe as they were with the rifle to tame the rivers, tributaries and swamps of the South Carolina Lowcountry. Join historian Chris Crabb as he traces the steps of Sherman's sixty-thousand-man army in its "amphibious march" from Beaufort to Columbia.
Sherman's March Through the Carolinas
Title | Sherman's March Through the Carolinas PDF eBook |
Author | John Gilchrist Barrett |
Publisher | |
Pages | 348 |
Release | 1956 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
Documents General William Tecumseh Sherman's three month march through North and South Carolina during the Civil War and the effect upon the local populations.
Sherman and the Burning of Columbia
Title | Sherman and the Burning of Columbia PDF eBook |
Author | Marion B. Lucas |
Publisher | Univ of South Carolina Press |
Pages | 204 |
Release | 2021-08-13 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1643362461 |
An investigation into who burned South Carolina's capital in 1865 Who burned South Carolina's capital city on February 17, 1865? Even before the embers had finished smoldering, Confederates and Federals accused each other of starting the blaze, igniting a controversy that has raged for more than a century. Marion B. Lucas sifts through official reports, newspapers, and eyewitness accounts, and the evidence he amasses debunks many of the myths surrounding the tragedy. Rather than writing a melodrama with clear heroes and villains, Lucas tells a more complex and more human story that details the fear, confusion, and disorder that accompanied the end of a brutal war. Lucas traces the damage not to a single blaze but to a series of fires—preceded by an equally unfortunate series of military and civilian blunders—that included the burning of cotton bales by fleeing Confederate soldiers. This edition includes a new foreword by Anne Sarah Rubin, professor of history at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and the author of Through the Heart of Dixie: Sherman's March and America.
66 Days of Hell
Title | 66 Days of Hell PDF eBook |
Author | John Rigdon |
Publisher | |
Pages | 42 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Sherman's March through the Carolinas |
ISBN |
Sherman's March Through the South
Title | Sherman's March Through the South PDF eBook |
Author | David Power Conyngham |
Publisher | |
Pages | 446 |
Release | 1865 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
South Carolina Civilians in Sherman's Path
Title | South Carolina Civilians in Sherman's Path PDF eBook |
Author | Karen Stokes |
Publisher | Arcadia Publishing |
Pages | 129 |
Release | 2012-06-19 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1614235538 |
Discover the true accounts of South Carolinian's as they recount General Sherman's march through the Palmetto State during the Civil War. During the fateful winter and spring of 1865, thousands of civilians in South Carolina, young and old, black and white, felt the impact of what General William T. Sherman called "the hard hand of war." This book tells their stories, many of which were corroborated by the testimony of Sherman's own soldiers and officers, and other eyewitnesses. These historical narratives are taken from letters and diaries of the time, as well as newspaper accounts and memoirs. The author has drawn on the superb resources of the South Carolina Historical Society's collection of manuscripts and publications to present these true, compelling stories of South Carolinians.