Download or read book Potter s Raid through South Carolina written by Tom Elmore and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2015-03-09 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In April 1865, Richmond had fallen, and the Confederacy was dying. Robert E. Lee had surrendered his army to Ulysses S. Grant in Virginia. Joseph Johnston was in North Carolina negotiating the surrender of his army to William T. Sherman. But in South Carolina, General Edward Potter was leading 2,500 Union soldiers, including the famed African American regiment the Fifty-fourth Massachusetts, through the state's interior, intent on destroying the railroads and equipment. This is the story of Potter's Raid. Using rare and nearly forgotten accounts, historian Tom Elmore has compiled the story of this often-overlooked campaign that featured the last shots of the Civil War in the state that started it.

Download or read book Illustrated Recollections of Potter s Raid written by Allan D. Thigpen and published by . This book was released on 2023-04-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is a collection of eye-witness accounts, memoirs, newspaper articles, military orders and dispatches.etc., of what is known as ""Potter's Raid."" General Edward E. Potter began the raid from Georgetown, South Carolina, following the Black River areas through Manning and Sumter, South Carolina, to Camden, South Carolina. Then almost turning around to Milford Plantation near Pinewood, South Carolina, before getting word that the war was over. Gen. Potter's troops were made up of white, but mostly black soldiers. They were ruthless, burning and destroying almost any home in their path; leaving in their wake little or no food or shelter for non-combatants. Their foe was made up only a few Confederates that were in the area on furlough due to illness or recovering from wounds, and other volunteers from the civilian population. Gen. Potter's orders were to locate and destroy a train loaded with war materiel and supplies. The goal was finally achieved at a small town (no longer exist) of Manchester, South ­Carolina.Mr. Thigpen spent many years researching the contents of this book. He will tell you others wrote the contents of this volume. It is primarily a collection of articles printed verbatim penned by participants and witnesses who were present during the Raid.It has been, as nearly as possible, arranged in chronological order. Some of the accounts duplicate, or even contradict, information contained in others. All have been included, for he does not feel qualified to second guess what someone else saw and heard over in the last days of the American Civil War. ­"Indeed, to do so would be a mistake."The accomplished historian will find many faults with the contents herein and with good reason. Some of the dates for example, the author writing from memory in later years, are known to be off by as much as a month; however, this does nothing to change the story being told by the individual.

Download or read book The Illustrated Recollections of Potter s Raid April 5 21 1865 written by Allan D. Thigpen and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains a collection of articles printed verbatim from participants and witnesses who were present during the Raid.

Download or read book Recollections of Potter s Raid written by Doug Foxworth and published by . This book was released on 2021-10-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (April 5-21, 1865). General Edward E. Potter's raid into lowcountry and central South Carolina in April 1865 was neither massive nor particularly crucial to Union victory. But coming as it did on the heels of William T. Sherman's "March to the Sea" and his destruction of Columbia, the raid witnessed some of the last engagements of the Civil War. The raid also underscored the unchallenged ability of the Union army to reach any part of the Confederacy. Among South Carolinians, the raid produced a rich collection of folklore and reminiscence that still resonates in the state.In March 1865, while the rest of Sherman's army marched into North Carolina, a detachment of Union soldiers drove toward Darlington in hopes of breaking the area's railroad connections. Meeting resistance, they fell back. The failure irked Sherman, who called for a heavier force to finish the job. "[T]he food supplies in that section should be exhausted," he wrote Major General Quincy A. Gillmore. "I don't feel disposed to feel overgenerous. . . . Those cars and locomotives should be destroyed if to do it costs you 500 men." Gillmore obliged, ordering Potter with 2,500 men, including detachments from the 32d and 102d U.S. Colored Troops, to move inland from Georgetown and "make all the display possible."Although hampered somewhat by Confederate guerrillas and slowed by supply difficulties, Potter encountered little to stop him. He raided as far as Sumter District before news of Sherman's armistice with Confederate general Joseph E. Johnston brought a cease-fire that eventually resulted in Confederate surrender. By then, Potter reported the destruction of trestles, lines, rolling stock, and 51,000 bales of cotton. When Potter returned to his base on the coast, according to one authority, five thousand newly liberated slaves followed him.Thigpen, Allan D., ed. The Illustrated Recollections of Potter's Raid, April 5-21, 1865. Sumter, S.C.: Gamecock City Printing, 1998.

Download or read book Potter s Raid written by David Archie Norris and published by DRAM Tree Books. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Norris brings to life all of the suspense and drama of Potter's Raid--a little-known episode of North Carolina's Civil War past.

Download or read book Reminiscences of Potter s Raid written by and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reminiscences, 1886-1909, given by Reverend William Wynn Mood, Mary McKagen Clark, Ruth McLaurin, Octavia Harby Moses, and Rebecca H. Moise detailing their experiences during the raid led by General Edward Elmer Potter (1823-1889) through Sumter District, South Carolina in 1865.

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Download or read book South Carolina written by Walter B. Edgar and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a chronicle of South Carolina describing in human terms 475 years of recorded history in the Palmetto State. Recounting the period from the first Spanish exploration to the end of the Civil War, the author charts South Carolina's rising national and international importance.

Download or read book A Thousand May Fall An Immigrant Regiment s Civil War written by Brian Matthew Jordan and published by Liveright Publishing. This book was released on 2021-01-26 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a Pulitzer Prize finalist, a pathbreaking history of the Civil War centered on a regiment of immigrants and their brutal experience of the conflict. The Civil War ended more than 150 years ago, yet our nation remains fiercely divided over its enduring legacies. In A Thousand May Fall, Pulitzer Prize finalist Brian Matthew Jordan returns us to the war itself, bringing us closer than perhaps any prior historian to the chaos of battle and the trials of military life. Creating an intimate, absorbing chronicle from the ordinary soldier’s perspective, he allows us to see the Civil War anew—and through unexpected eyes. At the heart of Jordan’s vital account is the 107th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, which was at once representative and exceptional. Its ranks weathered the human ordeal of war in painstakingly routine ways, fighting in two defining battles, Chancellorsville and Gettysburg, each time in the thick of the killing. But the men of the 107th were not lauded as heroes for their bravery and their suffering. Most of them were ethnic Germans, set apart by language and identity, and their loyalties were regularly questioned by a nativist Northern press. We so often assume that the Civil War was a uniquely American conflict, yet Jordan emphasizes the forgotten contributions made by immigrants to the Union cause. An incredible one quarter of the Union army was foreign born, he shows, with 200,000 native Germans alone fighting to save their adopted homeland and prove their patriotism. In the course of its service, the 107th Ohio was decimated five times over, and although one of its members earned the Medal of Honor for his daring performance in a skirmish in South Carolina, few others achieved any lasting distinction. Reclaiming these men for posterity, Jordan reveals that even as they endured the horrible extremes of war, the Ohioans contemplated the deeper meanings of the conflict at every turn—from personal questions of citizenship and belonging to the overriding matter of slavery and emancipation. Based on prodigious new research, including diaries, letters, and unpublished memoirs, A Thousand May Fall is a pioneering, revelatory history that restores the common man and the immigrant striver to the center of the Civil War. In our age of fractured politics and emboldened nativism, Jordan forces us to confront the wrenching human realities, and often-forgotten stakes, of the bloodiest episode in our nation’s history.

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Download or read book A South Carolina Chronology written by Walter Edgar and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2020-11-06 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year-by-year chronology of landmark dates and events in the state’s recorded history with an updated view of race, gender, and other social issues. Historians Walter Edgar, J. Brent Morris, and C. James Taylor add nearly thirty additional years of notable events and important updates in this third addition. While the previous edition referenced precontact South Carolina in a brief introduction, this edition begins with the chapter “Peopling the Continent (17,200 BCE–1669).” It acknowledges the extent to which the lands where Europeans began arriving in the fifteenth century had long been inhabited by indigenous people who were members of complex societies and sociopolitical networks. An easy-to-use inventory of the people, politics, laws, economics, wars, protests, storms, and cultural events that have had a major influence on South Carolina and its inhabitants, this latest edition reflects a more complete picture of the state’s past. From the earliest-known migrants to the increasingly complex global society of the early twenty-first century, A South Carolina Chronology offers a solid foundation for understanding the Palmetto State’s past.

Download or read book The South Carolina Encyclopedia written by Walter B. Edgar and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 1128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With nearly 2,000 entries and 520 illustrations, this comprehensive reference surveys the history and culture of the Palmetto State from A to Z, mountains to coast, and prehistory to the present.

Download or read book African Americans at War 2 volumes written by Jonathan Sutherland and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2003-12-05 with total page 844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating chronicle of the endeavors of African Americans who fought for their country: this book recounts their stories, their bravery, and their contributions. African Americans at War puts a human face on this neglected area of history. From pre-Revolutionary fighting against the French to cutting-edge combat against Saddam Hussein, these A–Z volumes underscore significant military contributions from African Americans. The two volumes provide comprehensive coverage of aspects including important historical figures; key battles, legislation, and rulings; honors awarded; regiments, formations, and squadrons; and significant places. Individuals portrayed include celebrated Revolutionary hero Crispus Attucks and Lieutenant Vernon J. Baker, who led his platoon in a near suicidal attack on German positions in 1945. Often marginalized in support functions and frequently given suicidal missions, African Americans have served with distinction and honor in all U.S. conflicts. Their stories, endeavors, and bravery are now chronicled in one accessible resource. This set investigates each war, the interwar years, integration periods, and acceptance of African American men and women on the military team. This is a fascinating compendium spanning all U.S. history.

Download or read book Dark Hours written by and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains list of 11,238 South Carolinians held in captivity as a result of their service to the Confederacy. Drawing on more than 200 sources, Mr. Kirkland's list includes the individuals' names, ranks, units, where and when they were captured, where they were held, when they were moved, their final dispositions, and sources to assist researchers.

Download or read book A Plausible Man written by Susanna Ashton and published by The New Press. This book was released on 2024-08-06 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The remarkable story of the man behind the book that helped spark the Civil War, in a stunning historical detective story In December of 1850, a faculty wife in Brunswick, Maine, named Harriet Beecher Stowe hid a fugitive slave in her house. While John Andrew Jackson stayed for only one night, he made a lasting impression: drawing from this experience, Stowe began to write Uncle Tom’s Cabin, one of the most influential books in American history and the novel that helped inspire the overthrow of slavery in the United States. A Plausible Man unfolds as a historical detective story, as Susanna Ashton combs obscure records for evidence of Jackson’s remarkable flight from slavery to freedom, his quest to liberate his enslaved family, and his emergence as an international advocate for abolition. This fresh and original work takes us through the Civil War, Reconstruction, and the restoration of white supremacy—where we last glimpse Jackson losing his freedom again on a Southern chain gang. In the spirit of Tiya Miles’s prizewinning All That She Carried and Erica Armstrong Dunbar’s Never Caught, Susanna Ashton breathes life into a striving and nuanced American character, one unmistakably rooted in the vast sweep of nineteenth-century America.

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