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HISTORY OF KERSHAW'S BRIGADE,
WITH COMPLETE ROLL OF COMPANIES, BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, INCIDENTS, ANECDOTES, ETC.
BY
D. AUGUSTUS DICKERT.
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION.
INTRODUCTION.
History of Kershaw's Brigade. By D. Augustus Dickert. (9x5-3/4, pp. 583. Illus.) Elbert H. Aull Company, Newberry, S.C.
AUTHOR'S ANNOUNCEMENT.
CHAPTER I
SECESSION.
Its Causes and Results.
CHAPTER II
ENROLLMENT OF TROOPS.
Troops Gathered at Charleston—First Service as a Volunteer.
CHAPTER III.
Reorganization or the Troops—Volunteers for Confederate Service—Call from Virginia. Troops Leave the State.
INCIDENTS ON THE WAY.
SECOND SOUTH CAROLINA REGIMENT.
THIRD SOUTH CAROLINA REGIMENT.
SEVENTH SOUTH CAROLINA REGIMENT.
EIGHTH SOUTH CAROLINA REGIMENT.
CHAPTER IV
Camp at Fairfax—Bonham's Staff—Biography of General Bonham—Retreat to Bull Run. Battle of the 18th.
MILLEDGE LUKE BONHAM
CHAPTER V
The Battle of Manassas—Rout of the Enemy. Visit to the Battlefield.
CHAPTER VI
Vienna—Flint Hill—Duel Sports—July to October.
CHAPTER VII
Winter Quarters at Bull Run.
JOSEPH BREVARD KERSHAW
COLONEL JAMES H. WILLIAMS, OF THE THIRD SOUTH CAROLINA VOLUNTEERS.
LIEUTENANT COLONEL FOSTER. OF THE THIRD SOUTH CAROLINA VOLUNTEERS.
COLONEL THOMAS G. BACON, OF THE SEVENTH SOUTH CAROLINA VOLUNTEERS.
COLONEL E.B.C. CASH, OF THE EIGHTH SOUTH CAROLINA VOLUNTEERS.
CHAPTER VIII
Reorganized—"New Officers"—Battle.
SECOND REGIMENT.
THIRD SOUTH CAROLINA REGIMENT.
SEVENTH SOUTH CAROLINA REGIMENT.
EIGHTH SOUTH CAROLINA REGIMENT.
CHAPTER IX
Battle of Seven Pines—Seven Days' Fight Around Richmond.
CHAPTER X
The March to Maryland—Second Manassas. Capture of Harper's Ferry—Sharpsburg.
CHAPTER XI
Sharpsburg or Antietam—Return to Virginia.
COLONEL D. WYATT AIKEN, OF THE SEVENTH.
CHAPTER XII
From Winchester to Fredericksburg.
THE THIRD BATTALION.
COLONEL GEORGE S. JAMES.
CHAPTER XIII
Battle of Fredericksburg—The Fifteenth Regiment and Third Battalion Join Brigade.
CHAPTER XIV
Incidents of the Battle—Comparisons With Other Engagements.
PLAYING "ANTHONY OVER" AT HEADQUARTERS ON THE SEVENTH OF DECEMBER, 1862.
IN DECEMBER, 1862.
AN ACT OF HEROIC FIDELITY OF A NEGRO SLAVE IN THE WAR.
CHAPTER XV
Reminiscences.
CHAPTER XVI
Campaign of 1863—Battle of Chancellorsville.
CHAPTER XVII
From Chancellorsville to Gettysburg—Camp, March, and Battle.
CHAPTER XVIII.
Battle of Gettysburg—July 2d.
CHAPTER XIX.
Gettysburg Continued—Pickett's Charge.
CHAPTER XX.
Gettysburg—Fourth Day—Incidents of the Battle—Sketch of Dessausure, McLeod, and Salmonds.
COLONEL WILLIAM DAVIE DESSAUSURE OF THE THIRTEENTH.
DONALD MCDIARMID MCLEOD
DR. T.W. SALMOND
"DID THE NEGROES WISH FREEDOM?"
HE WOULD FIGHT.
RETURN TO VIRGINIA.
CHAPTER XXI
Transferred to Georgia—Scenes Along the Route.
CHAPTER XXII
The Battle of Chickamauga.
CHAPTER XXIII
Notes of the Battle—Pathetic Scenes—Sketches of Officers.
COLONEL ELBERT BLAND, SEVENTH REGIMENT.
LIEUTENANT COLONEL HOOLE, EIGHTH REGIMENT.
COLONEL E.T. STACKHOUSE, EIGHTH REGIMENT.
CHAPTER XXIV
In Front of Chattanooga.
CHAPTER XXV
Around Knoxville—The Siege and Storming of Fort Sanders.
MAJOR WILLIAM M. GIST.
LIEUTENANT COLONEL W.G. RICE.
JULIUS ZOBEL.
CHAPTER XXVI
The Siege of Knoxville Raised—Battle of Bean Station—Winter Quarters.
CHAPTER XXVII
In Winter Quarters, 1863 and 1864—Re-enlistment.
COLONEL J.B. DAVIS.
COLONEL F.S. LEWIE.
CHAPTER XXVIII
In Camp on the Holston, East Tennessee. Return to Virginia.
CHAPTER XXIX
Battle of the Wilderness.
COLONEL JAMES D. NANCE.
LIEUTENANT COLONEL FRANKLIN GAILLARD.
CHAPTER XXX
Brock's Cross Road and Spottsylvania to North Anna.
NORTH ANNA FIVER, VIRGINIA.
HISTORY OF MCGOWAN'S BRIGADE.
CHAPTER XXXI
From North Anna to Cold Harbor—Joined by the Twentieth South Carolina.
TWENTIETH SOUTH CAROLINA REGIMENT.
COLONEL LAWRENCE MASSILLON KEITT.
CHAPTER XXXII
From Cold Harbor to Petersburg.
CHAPTER XXXIII
In the Trenches Around Petersburg.
THE "CRATER."
FEDERAL CHARGE.
GENERAL STEPHEN ELLIOTT.
ELLIOTT'S BRIGADE.
BENBOW'S REGIMENT.
SEVENTEENTH REGIMENT.
LOOKING AFTER SMITH'S MEN.
A LONG AND LAZY FIGHT.
THE BATTLE THAT CONQUERED MEADE.
MAHONE'S CHARGE.
THE ARTILLERY.
A FEAST AFTER A FAMINE.
A BLUNDER IN BEAUREGARD'S BOOK.
TIME OF MAHONE'S CHARGE.
SMITH AND CRAWFORD SAVE PETERSBURG.
ELLIOTT'S BRIGADE.
THAT TERRIBLE SATURDAY MORNING.
A WHOLE COMPANY BURIED.
BURIED THIRTY FEET DEEP.
DEATH TO ADVANCE AND DEATH TO RETREAT.
FEDERAL TOTAL LOSS OVER FIVE THOUSAND.
CAPTAIN LAKE A PRISONER.
CHAPTER XXXIV
Leaves the Trenches in the Shenandoah Valley.
COL. J.W. HENAGAN.
COLONEL ROBERT CLAYTON MAFFETT.
CHAPTER XXXV
Reminiscences of the Valley.
CHAPTER XXXVI
Leaves the Valley—Return to Early—Second Valley Campaign.
COLONEL WILLIAM DRAYTON RUTHERFORD.
GENERAL JAMES CONNOR.
CAPTAIN JOHN MARTIN KINARD.
CHAPTER XXXVII
Battle of Cedar Creek or Fisher's Hill, 19th October, 1864.
ADJUTANT YOUNG JOHN POPE.
HOW IT FEELS TO BE TAKEN A PRISONER OF WAR.
CHAPTER XXXVIII
Leave the Valley for the Last Time—October 20th to December 31st, 1864.
GENERAL JOHN D. KENNEDY.
COLONEL R.P. TODD.
CAPTAIN JOHN K. NANCE.
COLONEL WILLIAM WALLACE.
CAPTAIN JOHN HAMPDEN BROOKS.
CAPTAIN ANDREW HARLLEE.
CAPTAIN WILLIAM D. CARMICHAEL.
CAPTAIN DUNCAN MCINTYRE.
COLONEL WILLIAM DRAYTON RUTHERFORD.
CHAPTER XXXIX
Peace Conference—State Troops—Women of the South.
CHAPTER XL
Opening of 1865—Gloomy Outlook—Prison Pens—Return to South Carolina of Kershaw's Brigade.
CHAPTER XLI
On the Saltkahatchie. February, 1865.
CHAPTER XLII
March Through South Carolina, February and March, 1865.
CHAPTER XLIII
From Smithfield to Greensboro—The Surrender.
CHAPTER XLIV
Retrospect.
THE MAGNITUDE OF THE WAR—ITS LOSSES IN KILLED AND DIED.
THE CONFEDERATE DEAD—THE BATTLEFIELDS OF THE CIVIL WAR—THE TWO CIVILIZATIONS.
APPENDIX
ROLL OF SECOND SOUTH CAROLINA VOLUNTEER REGIMENT.
COMPANY "A."
COMPANY "B."
COMPANY "C."
COMPANY "D."
COMPANY "E."
COMPANY "F."
COMPANY "G."
COMPANY "H."
COMPANY "I."
COMPANY "K."
ROLL OF THIRD SOUTH CAROLINA VOLUNTEER REGIMENT.
COMPANY "A."
COMPANY "B."
COMPANY "C."
COMPANY "D."
COMPANY "E."
COMPANY "F."
COMPANY "G."
COMPANY "H."
COMPANY "I."
COMPANY "K."
ROLL OF SEVENTH SOUTH CAROLINA VOLUNTEER REGIMENT.
COMPANY "A."
COMPANY "B."
COMPANY "C."
COMPANY "D."
COMPANY "E."
COMPANY "F."
COMPANY "G."
COMPANY "H."
COMPANY "I."
COMPANY "K."
COMPANY "L."
ROLL OF EIGHTH SOUTH CAROLINA VOLUNTEER REGIMENT.
COMPANY "A."
COMPANY "B."
COMPANY "C."
COMPANY "D."
COMPANY "E."
COMPANY "F."
COMPANY "G."
COMPANY "H."
COMPANY "I."
COMPANY "K."
COMPANY "L."
COMPANY "M."
ROLL OF FIFTEENTH SOUTH CAROLINA VOLUNTEER REGIMENT.
COMPANY "A."
COMPANY "B."
COMPANY "C."
COMPANY "D."
COMPANY "E."
COMPANY "F."
COMPANY "G."
COMPANY "H."
COMPANY "I."
COMPANY "K."
ROLL OF THIRD BATTALION (JAMES).
COMPANY "A."
COMPANY "B."
COMPANY "C."
COMPANY "D."
COMPANY "E."
COMPANY "F."
COMPANY "G."
ROLL OF TWENTIETH SOUTH CAROLINA VOLUNTEER REGIMENT.
COMPANY "A."
COMPANY "B."
COMPANY "C."
COMPANY "D."
COMPANY "E."
COMPANY "F."
COMPANY "G."
COMPANY "H."
COMPANY "I."
COMPANY "K."
COMPANY "L."
INDEX.
ERRATA.
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