South Carolina – Civil War – 1861-1865

SC SC History Civil War in South Carolina

SC Civil War Battles, Forts

• SC Civil War battles

• Fort Moultrie
• Fort Palmetto
• Fort Sumter
  –  Brief overview - includes picture, map
  –  Tour - includes diagrams
  –   Flags of Fort Sumter - PDF
  –  Fort Sumter National Monument - park and tour boat info
  –  Events leading to Fort Sumter
  

SC Civil War Regiments

• 1st (Martin's) SC Mounted Militia Regiment
  –  Roster
  
• 2nd SC Cavalry - Hampton Legion
  
• 5th SC Cavalry Regiment - Butler's Cavalry Brigade - Army of Northern Virginia Defense of South Carolina
  –  Brief History
  –  Engagements
  –  Roster
  
• Aiken Independent Mounted Infantry
• Pee Dee Rifles Camp No 1419 - Pee Dee Light Artillery
  

SC Civil War Heroes

• Anderson, Richard Heron
• Beauregard, Pierre Gustave Toutant
• Chesnut, Mary Boykin Miller
• Smalls, Captain Robert
• Steedman, Isaiah George Washington

CSS H.L. Hunley

• Friends of the Hunley
  –  Tour the Hunley - directions, times
  

Related SC Civil War Resources

• Letters, diaries, documents
• Maps
• The Civil War in South Carolina
• South Carolina's Civil War Sesquicentennial - planning 2011-2015 statewide observance for the sesquicentennial of the Civil War
  
• South Carolina Confederate Relic Room & Military Museum - Columbia

Further Civil War Studies

• Dixie, Song of the South - composer, history, music, lyrics, critics
  
• Myths about Slavery and the Civil War
• American Civil War Homepage
• Selected Civil War Photographs from the Library of Congress