Transcriber's Note:
For readability illustrations have been slightly moved thus altering the page numbers in the List of Illustrations. Compound nouns, names, and hyphenated words are not consistant in the original text.

Confederate
Military History

A LIBRARY OF CONFEDERATE
STATES HISTORY, IN TWELVE
VOLUMES, WRITTEN BY DISTINGUISHED
MEN OF THE SOUTH,
AND EDITED BY GEN. CLEMENT
A. EVANS OF GEORGIA....

VOL. V.

Atlanta, Ga.
Confederate Publishing Company
1899

Copyright, 1899,
BY Confederate Publishing Company.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

PAGE
[CHAPTER I.] Spirit of Secession—The State Militia—Charleston and the Forts—The Violated Agreement—Major Anderson Occupies Fort Sumter—South Carolina Occupies Pinckney and Moultrie—The Star of the West—Fort Sumter Surrendered—Carolinians in Virginia—Battle of Manassas4
[CHAPTER II.] Affairs on the Coast—Loss of Port Royal Harbor—Gen. R. E. Lee in Command of the Department—Landing of Federals at Port Royal Ferry—Gallant Fight on Edisto Island—General Pemberton Succeeds Lee in Command—Defensive Line, April, 186229
[CHAPTER III.] South Carolinians in Virginia—Battle of Williamsburg—Eltham's Landing—Seven Pines and Fair Oaks—Nine-Mile Road—Gaines' Mill—Savage Station—Frayser's Farm—Malvern Hill43
[CHAPTER IV.] The Coast of South Carolina, Summer of 1862—Operations under General Pemberton—Engagement at Old Pocotaligo—Campaign on James Island—Battle of Secessionville76
[CHAPTER V.] General Beauregard in Command—The Defenses of Charleston—Disposition of Troops—Battle of Pocotaligo—Repulse of Enemy at Coosawhatchie Bridge—Operations in North Carolina—Battle of Kinston—Defense of Goldsboro94
[CHAPTER VI.] South Carolinians in the West—Manigault's and Lythgoe's Regiments at Corinth—The Kentucky Campaign—Battle of Murfreesboro111
[CHAPTER VII.] With Lee in Northern Virginia, 1862—The Maneuvers on the Rappahannock—Second Manassas Campaign—Battle of Ox Hill120
[CHAPTER VIII.] The Maryland Campaign—The South Mountain Battles—Capture of Harper's Ferry—Battles of Sharpsburg and Shepherdstown140
[CHAPTER IX.] Hampton's Cavalry in the Maryland Raid—The Battle of Fredericksburg—Death of Gregg—South Carolinians at Marye's Hill—Cavalry Operations165
[CHAPTER X.] Operations in South Carolina, Spring of 1863—Capture of the Isaac Smith—Ingraham's Defeat of the Blockading Squadron—Naval Attack on Fort Sumter—Hunter's Raids188
[CHAPTER XI.] South Carolina Troops in Mississippi—Engagement near Jackson—The Vicksburg Campaign—Siege of Jackson203
[CHAPTER XII.] South Carolinians in the Chancellorsville Campaign—Service of Kershaw's and McGowan's Brigades—A Great Confederate Victory213
[CHAPTER XIII.] Operations in South Carolina—Opening of Gillmore's Campaign against Fort Sumter—The Surprise of Morris Island—First Assault on Battery Wagner—Demonstrations on James Island and Against the Railroad—Action near Grimball's Landing223
[CHAPTER XIV.] Second Assault on Battery Wagner—Siege of Wagner and Bombardment of Fort Sumter—Evacuation of Morris Island235
[CHAPTER XV.] The Gettysburg Campaign—Gallant Service of Perrin's and Kershaw's Brigades—Hampton's Cavalry at Brandy Station257
[CHAPTER XVI.] South Carolinians at Chickamauga—Organization of the Armies—South Carolinians Engaged—Their Heroic Service and Sacrifices277
[CHAPTER XVII.] The Siege of Charleston—Continued Bombardment of Fort Sumter—Defense Maintained by the Other Works—The Torpedo Boats—Bombardment of the City—Transfer of Troops to Virginia—Prisoners under Fire—Campaign on the Stono291
[CHAPTER XVIII.] South Carolinians with Longstreet and Lee—Wauhatchie—Missionary Ridge—Knoxville—The Virginia Campaign of 1864—From the Wilderness to the Battle of the Crater310
[CHAPTER XIX.] The Atlanta Campaign—Battles around Atlanta—Jonesboro—Hood's Campaign in North Georgia—The Defense of Ship's Gap—Last Campaign in Tennessee—Battle of Franklin328
[CHAPTER XX.] The Closing Scenes in Virginia—Siege of Richmond and Petersburg—Fall of Fort Fisher—South Carolina Commands at Appomattox346
[CHAPTER XXI.] Battle of Honey Hill—Sherman's Advance into South Carolina—Organization of the Confederate Forces—Burning of Columbia—Battles of Averasboro and Bentonville—Conclusion354
[BIOGRAPHICAL]373

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

FACING PAGE.
Bee, Barnard E.[394]
Bonham, M. L.[394]
Bratton, John[394]
Butler, M. C.[383], [394]
Capers, Ellison[1], [409]
Charleston, Defenses (Map)Between pages 296 and [297]
Chestnut, James[394]
Connor, James[417]
Drayton, Thos. F.[394]
Dunovant, John[394]
Elliott, Stephen, Jr.[394]
Evans, N. G.[394]
Ferguson, S. W.[417]
Gary, M. W.[394]
Gist, S. R.[417]
Gregg, Maxcy[417]
Hagood, Johnson[417]
Honey Hill, Battle (Map)[357]
Huger, Benjamin[409]
Jenkins, Micah[417]
Jones, David R.[417]
Kennedy, John D.[417]
Kershaw, J. B.[409]
Logan, J. M.[417]
McGowan, Samuel[409]
Manigault, A. M.[409]
Perrin, Abner[409]
Preston, John S.[417]
Ripley, Roswell S.[409]
South Carolina (Map)Between pages [371] and [372]
Stevens, C. H.[409]
Villepigue, J. B.[409]
Wallace, W. H.[409]

ELLISON CAPERS

SOUTH CAROLINA
BY
Brig.-Gen. Ellison Capers.