Soldiers in Company D (Chester
county)
of the 17th South Carolina infantry regiment
"Evan's Tramp Brigade"
This information is about the units in which Thomas B. (Bankhead?) Stewart and two of his sons, William Stewart and Robert Stewart (Mrs. Virginia McFadden of Winnsboro, SC is a granddaughter of both William and Robert Stewart) served, not especially about them. Most of their stories have unfortunately been lost (please contribute your own experiences so we can keep your records for the benefit of future generations).
Their regiment fought in the battle of the Crater (See CRATER.htm ) and at Petersburg until Lee surrendered. Details about personel, etc. were recorded in company Muster Rolls every couple months, and can be checked to confirm who was where when.
Knowing the names of the officers of the company and regiment helps us understand the reports of the battles in which they fought. A more complete list of officers of the 17th South Carolina Infantry Regiment is at http://www.oocities.org/BourbonStreet/Square/3873/b/reg17.html
Some links to interesting information about the Federal invasion are at the bottom of this web page.
I added the italicized information in the list below, copied the rest from the Internet, and posted it here for easier access by my kinsmen. Please consult original records for confirmation since my sources may contain copying errors (initials in names, etc.).
Abreviations
http://freepages.education.rootsweb.com/~york/17SCV/D.html is the source of the following name list. The names of battles, etc. after the name of a soldier below indicate where he died, etc.
Officers:
Stevenson, W.G., Captain
Beaty, James, Captain/A.Q.M.
Carlisle, Thomas P., 1st Lt.
Brown, O.R., 2nd Lt., retired 2/9/1863
Cornwell, Eli, 2nd Lt.
Enlisted:
Bagley, Nicholas, Private, paroled 4/9/1865 Appomattox
Bailey, W.A., Private
Batey, Alex, Private
Beaty, Alexander, Private, DOD 1/14/1865
Bishop, James, Private, 11/9/1864 DIP Elmira
Bishop, Zack, Private, KIA 8/30/1862 2nd Manassas
Black, A.G., Private, paroled 4/9/1865 Appomattox
Black, David, Sergeant
Black, Jasper, Private, DOD 7/29/1862 at home
Boyd, David, Private
Boyd, J.D., Private
Boyd, Robert, Sergeant
Bradley, W.H., Private
Brown, James, Private
Brown, Sam, Private, DOD 11/17/1862 at home
Brown, W.P., Private, DOW 8/9/1864 The Crater
Bruce, W.W., Private
Burty, A., Private
Cameron, Joseph, Private
Carder, Samuel A., Private
Caron, J., Private
Cockrell, J.H., Private
Colvin, Martin, Private, DOD 2/17/1862 at home
Corder, David, Private, DIP 7/4/1865 Elmira
Corder, J.A., Corporal
Corder, John, Corporal
Corder, S.A., Private
Corder, Samuel A., Private
Corder, W.A., Private
Cordes, David A., DIP 7/4/1865 Elmira
Coulter, Leander, Private
Croder, D.A., Private
Croder, J.H., Private
Crowder, J.N., Corporal
Curry, J.H., Private
Curry, Joseph, Private
David, Dison, Private
Dawkins, E.M., Private
Dawkins, J.T., Private, DIP Elmira
Dawkins, John M., Private
Dawkins, W.L., Private
Dawkins, William, DOD
Dawkins, William C., Private
Dickey, Peter, Private
Dorkins, John T., Private, DIP 8/23/1864 Elmira
Dorkins, W.C., Private
Douglas, C., Private
Douglas, William, Private
Douglass, Charles, Private
Douglass, George, Private
Douglass, William, Private, paroled 4/9/1865 Appomattox
Duncan, D.H., Private
Duncan, David, Private
Dunkin, David, Private
Dye, Major R., Private, died in a railroad accident 8/8/1863
Meridian MS
Dye, R.L., Private
Dye, Thomas, Private
Featherstone, R.D., Private
Ford, J., Corporal
Ford, Langley, Private
Ford, N.T., Corporal
Ford, Nelson, Corporal
Ford, Strother, Corporal
Ford, W.L., Private
Gaston, W.M, Private
Gaston, William C., Private
Gibson, James H., Private, DOW 6/18/1863 Jackson MS
Gibson, Joseph H., Private
Gladden, W.T., Private, DOD received at Elmira 7/14/1865 at
home
Hardin, J.C., Private
Harris, Peter, Private
Heath, W.H., Private
Hogan, James S., Private, paroled 4/9/1865 Appomattox
Johnston, J.D., Private
Johnston, Leroy, Private
Kerr, W.J., Private
Ketchins, Charles E., Private
Kilgo, Robert, Corporal
Kilgore, Robert, Corporal
Kilgore, Robert F., Corporal
Kilpatrick, Robert, Private, DOD 8/31/1864 at home
Latham, S.B., Private (see http://www.wclathan.com/index.htm )
Latham, W.J., Sergeant, paroled 4/9/1865 Appomattox
Laumb,Weslty, Private
Long, J.W., Private, paroled 4/9/1865 Appomattox
Lowey, I.W., Private
Lyle, James, Private, DIP Elmira
Marion, J.S., Private
Marion, J.T., Private
McCully, John E., Private
McDill, J.N., Private
McElduff, John B., Private KIA 9/14/1862 South Mountain
McElduff, T.L., Private
McElduff, Thomas, Private
McGowen, Daniel S., Private
McKeown, J.B., Private, DOW 8/10/1864 The Crater
McKeown, S.S., Private, DIP 12/9/1864 Elmira
McWalters, A., Private
McWalters, John P., Private, paroled 4/9/1865 Appomattox
McWatters, Ansil, Private, DIP 2/20/1865 Elmira
McWaters, Benjamin L., Private, DOD 4/19/1862 Johns Island SC
McWaters, B.C., Private
McWaters, Charles L., Private, DOD 3/30/2863 Johns Island SC
McWtters, J.P., Private, DOD Johns Island SC
McWaters, Jesse, Private, DIP 11/9/1865 Elmira
McWaters, John, Private, DIP 4/11/1865 Elmira
McWaters, Parker, Private
McWaters, Sumpter, Private
McWaters, William, Private
McWaters, William L., 1st Sergeant, DOD 1865 Elmira
McWaters, W.S., 1st Sergeant
Miles, Edward M., Sergeant
Mills, E.M., Sergeant
Montgomery, Bird, Private
Morgan, Daniel, Private
Morrison, A.S., Private
Neal, John W., Private
Neal, W.C., Private
Neal, William C., Private, DIP 2/23/1865 Elmira
Neil, J.W., Private, paroled 4/9/1865 Appomattox
Neil, W.C., Private
Owens, D.W., Private
Phillips, Samuel Y., Corporal
Pool, W.G., Private
Poole, G.W., Private
Poole, W. G.,Private
Poole, William G., Private
Ratteree, Joseph L., Private
Ratteree, James, Private, paroled 4/9/1865 Appomattox
Ratteree, L.L., Private
Ratteree, Robert, Private
Ratteree, Thomas, Private, paroled 4/9/1865 Appomattox
Richie, William M., Private, KIA 7/16/1864 Petersburg
Richey, William M., Private
Robertson, John W., Private
Rogers, J.A., Private
Rudisil, Wylie U., Corporal
Rudisill, W.V., Private, DIP 5/28/1865 Elmira
Salter, S.J., Private
Stephenson, William, Private, paroled 4/9/1865 Appomattox
Sterling, T.P., Corporal
Stevenson, W., Private
Stewart, Robert, Private (son of Thomas B.
Stewart)
Stewart, Thomas, Private
Stewart, Thomas B., Private buried at Longtown
Presbyterian Church in Fairfield county, SC
Stewart, William, Private
Stewart, William T.,
Private (son of Thomas B. Stewart)
Strong, Andrew, Private, DIP 10/30/1864 Elmira
Stroud, Munrol J., Private
Strous, M., Private, paroled 4/9/1865 Appomattox
Sweat, Joshua, Private, DOD 3/1/1862 Johns Island SC
Terrell, A.N., Private
Wallace, B.R., Private
Wallace, Beaty, Private
Wallace, James P., Private
Walter, William L., 1st Sergeant
White, Hugh, Sergeant, KIA Corinth, MS
Wiley, T.S., Corporal, DIP 11/30/1864 Elmira
Willis, E.M., Sergeant
Wilson, David, Private, KIA 7/30/1864 The Crater
Wright, Richard, Private, KIA 5/10/1864 Clays Farm VA
Wylie, J.B., Sergeant, paroled 4/9/1865 Appomattox
Wylie, T.Sumpter, Corporal, DIP 11/30/1864 Elmira
Wylie, W.H., Corporal, paroled 4/9/1865 Appomattox
Younge, H.C., Private
Younge, William T., Private, KIA 7/30/1864 The Crater
Young, H.C, Private
Young, H.G, Private
Another list of South Carolina Infantry Units is at http://members.tripod.com/mwyckoff/infan.html
The Federal government's lawless rebellion against the US Constitution and illegal invasion and looting of the CSA killed 94,000 CSA soldiers, of which 25% (23,000) were from South Carolina. It killed 42% of SC's 1861 military population of 55,045, and 23% of SC's total male population. It maimed or crippled many more for life. Many died of disease. Fairfield and Chester counties suffered most from Federal war crimes against CSA civilians. SC seceded first and was most savagely treated because our enemies blamed us for the war.
| Infantry | 33 Regiments | 2 Battalions |
| Cavalry | 7 Regiments | 1 Battalions |
| Heavy Artillery | 1 Regiments | 1 Battalions |
| Light artillery | 28 batteries |
Some of the above information is from http://www.researchonline.net/sccw/scunits.htm
The following links are to web pages about the battles in which the 17th regiment fought.
Malvern Hill, Virginia www2.cr.nps.gov/abpp/battles/va021.htm
Rappahannock Station Virginia http://californiacentralcoast.com/commun/map/civil/statepic/va/va023.html
2nd Manassas 2nd Manassas (AKA 2nd Bull Run) Official Records www.civilwarhome.com/2manassa.htm
Boonsboro
MD (AKA South Mountain)
http://www.civilwarhome.com/southmountain.htm
Battle of South Mountain www.civilwarsites.com/civilwar/South_Mt./south_mt..html
The Battle of Sharpsburg
Official Records and Battle Description www.civilwarhome.com/antietam.htm
Antietam, MD Battle Summary
www2.cr.nps.gov/abpp/battles/md003.htm
Kinston, North Carolina www2.cr.nps.gov/abpp/battles/nc007.htm
Jackson, Mississippi www2.cr.nps.gov/abpp/battles/ms008.htm
Savannah, Georgia www.misscivilwar.org/battles/jackson/jackmap1.html
Bermuda Hundred VA www.fredericksburg.com/community/civilwar/Stories/bermudahundred.shtml
Ware Bottom Church Virginia www2.cr.nps.gov/abpp/battles/va054.htm"
Battle of the Crater - www.oocities.org/lukemadeline/CRATER..html or CRATER.htm
Petersburg Siege http://members.aol.com/siege1864/
The Petersburg Campaign http://web.nmsu.edu/~mengi/petersburg/index.html
Fort Stedman Virginia www2.cr.nps.gov/abpp/battles/va084.htm
Lewis Farm, Virginia www2.cr.nps.gov/abpp/battles/va085.htm
Five Forks Virginia www2.cr.nps.gov/abpp/battles/va088.htm
Sailor's Creek or Sayler's Creek Virginia www2.cr.nps.gov/abpp/battles/va093.htm
Appomattox Court House Official Records www.civilwarhome.com/appomatt.htm
Source http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~york/17thSCV/Heroes.htm
From the Southern Historical Society-Heroes of the old Camden
District SC
The 17th regiment, which was organized in the early part of 1862 (with the exception of but 2 companies from Barnwell), was composed entirely of men from York, Chester, Lancaster and Fairfield.
These were:
It was organized by the election of
This regiment’s first service was on the coast of SC, but it was to be its fortune, with the rest of its brigade, first under
to serve in almost every State in the Confederacy.
It belonged to what might be called, not disrespectfully, "The Tramp Brigade." It saw service in SC. It fought in VA, MD, NC and MS. It traversed AL & GA, and served for some time on the Island of Hope, in the latter State, including in its service a term of bombardment in Fort Sumter.
Its first battle was the Second Manassas (see http://www.civilwarhome.com/2manassa.htm ), and in this battle it lost in proportion to its numbers more than any other regiment from this State during the whole war did in any single engagement. There were but three other regiments in the Confederacy which had a greater percentage of loss in any single battle. Its loss was 189 killed and wounded out of 284 carried into action. But this loss, great and terrible in its numbers as it was, did not cover its calamity to the State. At the head of this regiment fell one of SC noblest citizens. (Captain Gaston, of the 6th).
The Seventeenth regiment was in Maryland, at Boonesboro, on the 14th September, in which out of 141 present, the regiment lost 61 killed, wounded & missing.
At Sharpsburg, on the 17th, this regiment had been reduced by casualties and marching to but 59 present, including officers, rank and file and ambulance corps. Of this small number 19 were killed & wounded.
One-half of the regiment was lost at Fort Steadman on the 25th March, 1865. Colonel McMasters & 20 officers were captured. The remainder fought at Five Forks, where Lieutenant-Colonel Culp was captured. The three remaining officers of the regiment-Major Avery, Adjutant Fant and Captain Steele, of Lancaster-were each wounded on the day of the surrender.
More links to information about this regiment are at http://members.tripod.com/mwyckoff/infan.html .
17th South Carolina Regiment Reunion--1889 by Louise Pettus
from: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~york/17thSCV/Reunion.html
After the withdrawal of Federal troops from the state of South Carolina in 1877 Civil War veterans began planning reunions. At first the reunions were generally small in scale but as the state began recovering economically and railroads began offering special rates, the reunion groups became larger and met more frequently.
In August 1889 the Seventeenth South Carolina Volunteers met in their 25th reunion in what was described as “the biggest entertainment of the kind ever held in the upcountry”. The Seventeenth had a considerable number of York County soldiers (4 companies) along with Chester (2 companies). Lancaster and Barnwell counties had present one company each.
The reunion was held in a park called Overlook Place on Whitaker Mountain near the town of Blacksburg, now in Cherokee County but in 1889 in York County (Cherokee County was created in 1897 from York and Spartanburg counties).
The town of Blacksburg was created in 1872 by the arrival of the Chicago, Cincinnati and Charleston railroad. Sally Whitaker had once lived with her family in the gap of a nearby mountain. One day Sally took her little brother with her to search for the family’s cows. The boy was attacked by a large panther. Sally carried a rifle and managed to kill the panther. The mountain was named Whitaker Mountain in Sally’s honor.
The old soldiers arrived in every way possible: by train, wagon, horse or mule back, even on foot. Blacksburg had several hotels which quickly filled and a number of citizens invited veterans to their homes. Some camped in wagons or tents on the outskirts of the town.
Col. F. W. McMaster met the veterans at the depot to shake their hands and distribute badges to 109 of his old comrades. McMaster then mounted a white horse and led a parade through the main street of Blacksburg and headed to Overlook Mountain where the special events would take place. An observer noted that some marchers were vigorous while others were “weak and tottering.” He also noted empty sleeves and here and there a wooden leg.
Originally the Seventeenth had 1,035 enlistees with 230 of that number either transferred or dismissed. Of the remainder, 393, or 49 per cent, were killed or died of disease. The casualties were 67 per cent at Second Manassas. At the end of the war the regiment had 410 survivors.
At Overlook Place there were present some 2-3,000 people to cheer the veterans. A “sumptuous feast” was laid out on tables. The band played “Dixie” and “Yankee Doodle”.
The Orator of the Day was Col. William Blackburn Wilson, captain of company F and now a distinguished Yorkville lawyer. Wilson was followed by Colonel McMaster who opened with a resounding “Comrades!,” followed by a long pause. “Visibly affected,” the colonel added “friends of my might!” He spoke in glowing terms of those soldiers who had sacrificed their lives.
When the speeches were over a resolution was presented to have the next year’s reunion at the Columbia fair grounds. Within a few years most state reunions would be held at the State Fair on the same grounds. The State Fair was generally held in late October when farmers were likely to have sold enough of their crops to have money to spend.
Later, a huge tent was erected yearly on the fair grounds to house the Confederate veteran groups. United Daughters of the Confederacy would serve the old veterans food and drink contributed by various businesses. This practice, along with free admission, lasted as long as their were veterans who could manage to travel to Columbia.
For information about the battles in which the above fought, please see the Index at: http://www.civilwarhome.com/appomatt.htm
The Appomattox
Campaign March 25 - April 9, 1865 http://www.civilwarhome.com/appomattoxcampaign.htm
Source: "Historical Times Encyclopedia of the Civil War"
The final campaign of the Army of Northern Virginia began March 25,1865, when Gen. Robert E. Lee sought to break Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's ever-tightening stranglehold at Petersburg, Va., by attacking the Federal position at Fort Stedman.
The assault failed, and when Grant counterattacked a week later at Five Forks, 1-2 April, the thin Confederate line snapped, and Lees skeleton forces abandoned Richmond and Petersburg.
The Confederate retreat began southwestward as Lee sought to use the still-operational Richmond & Danville Railroad. At its western terminus at Danville he would unite with Gen. Joseph F. Johnston's army, which was retiring up through North Carolina. Taking maximum advantage of Danvilles hilly terrain, the 2 Southern forces would make a determined stand against the converging armies of Grant and Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman.
But Grant moved too fast for the plan to materialize, and Lee waited 24 hours in vain at Amelia Court House for trains to arrive with badly needed supplies.
Federal cavalry, meanwhile, sped forward and cut the Richmond & Danville at Jetersville. Lee had to abandon the railroad, and his army stumbled across rolling country in an effort to reach Lynchburg, another supply base that could be defended. Union horsemen seized the vital rail junction at Burkeville as Federal infantry continued to dog the Confederates.
On 6 Apr. almost one-fourth of Lees army was trapped and captured at Sayler's Creek. Lee, at Farmville when he received news of the disaster, led his remaining 30,000 men in a north-by-west arc across the Appomattox River and toward Lynchburg.
In the meantime, Grant, with 4 times as many men, sent Maj. Gen. Phillip H. Sheridan's cavalry and most of 2 infantry corps on a hard, due-west march from Farmville to Appomattox Station. Reaching the railroad first the Federals blocked Lees only line of advance.
On the morning of 9 Apr. Confederate probes tested the Union lines and found them to be too strong. Lees options were now gone.
That afternoon "Palm Sunday" Lee met Grant in the front parlor of Wilmer McLean's home to discuss peace terms.
The actual surrender of the Confederate Army occurred 12 Apr., an overcast Wednesday. As Southern troops marched past silent lines of Federals, a Union general noted "an awed stillness, and breath-holding, as if it were the passing of the dead."
Extracts from "Reminiscences Of The Civil
War"
by Maj. Gen. John B. Gordon, CS
http://www.civilwarhome.com/endofwar.htm
General Chamberlain describes this incident in the following words: Bayonets were affixed to muskets, arms stacked, and cartridge-boxes unslung and hung upon the stacks. Then, slowly and with a reluctance that was appealingly pathetic, the torn and tattered battle-flags were either leaned against the stacks or laid upon the ground. The emotion of the conquered soldiery was really sad to witness. Some of the men who had carried and followed those ragged standards through the four long years of strife rushed, regardless of all discipline, from the ranks, bent about their old flags, and pressed them to their lips....
When the proud and sensitive sons of Dixie came to a full realization of the truth that the Confederacy was overthrown and their leader had been compelled to surrender his once invincible army, they could no longer control their emotions, and tears ran like water down their shrunken faces.
The flags which they still carried were objects of undisguised affection. These Southern banners had gone down before overwhelming numbers; and torn by shells, riddled by bullets, and laden with the powder and smoke of battle, they aroused intense emotion in the men who had so often followed them to victory.
Yielding to overpowering sentiment, these high-mettled men began to tear the flags from the staffs and hide them in their bosoms, as they wet them with burning tears.
The Confederate officers faithfully endeavored to check this exhibition of loyalty and love for the old flags. A great majority of them were duly surrendered; but many were secretly carried by devoted veterans to their homes, and will be cherished forever as honored heirlooms.
There was nothing unnatural or censurable in all this. The Confederates who clung to those pieces of battered bunting knew they would never again wave as martial ensigns above embattled hosts; but they wanted to keep them, just as they wanted to keep the old canteen with a bullet-hole through it, or the rusty gray jacket that had been torn by canister.
They loved those flags, and will love them forever, as mementoes of the unparalleled struggle. They cherish them because they represent the consecration and courage not only of Lee's army but of all the Southern armies, because they symbolize the bloodshed and the glory of nearly a thousand battles.
If those unhappy patriots who find a scarecrow in every faded, riddled Confederate flag would delve deeper into the philosophy of human nature, or rise higher,--say to the plane on which McKinley stood,--they would be better satisfied with their Southern countrymen, with Southern sentiment, with the breadth and strength of the unobtrusive but sincere Southern patriotism.
They would see that man is so constituted--the immutable laws of our being are such--that to stifle the sentiment and extinguish the hallowed memories of a people is to destroy their manhood.
During these last scenes at Appomattox some of the Confederates were so depressed in spirit, so filled with apprehensions as to the policy to be adopted by the civil authorities at Washington, that the future seemed to them shrouded in gloom. They knew that burnt homes and fenceless farms, poverty and ashes, would greet them on their return from the war.
Even if the administration at Washington should be friendly, they did not believe that the Southern States could recover in half a century from the chaotic condition in which the war had left them.
The situation was enough to daunt the most hopeful and appall the stoutest hearts. "What are we to do? How are we to begin life again?" they asked. "Every dollar of our circulating medium has been rendered worthless. Our banks and rich men have no money. The commodities and personal property which formerly gave us credit have been destroyed. The Northern banks and money-lenders will not take as security our lands, denuded of houses and without animals and implements for their cultivation. The railroads are torn up or the tracks are worn out. The negroes are freed and may refuse to work.
Besides, what assurance can we have of law and order and the safety of our families with four million slaves suddenly emancipated in the midst of us and the restraints to which they have been accustomed entirely removed?" ........
One of Grant's men said good-naturedly to one of Lee's veterans: "Well, Johnny, I guess you fellows will go home now to stay." The tired and tried Confederate, who did not clearly understand the spirit in which these playful words were spoken, and who was not at the moment in the best mood for badinage, replied: "Look here, Yank; you guess, do you, that we fellows are going home to stay? Maybe we are. But don't be giving us any of your impudence. If you do, we'll come back and lick you again." ......
These terms of surrender proposed by General Sherman reveal a spirit in extreme contrast to that which he showed toward the Southern people in his unobstructed march to the sea. In his agreement with General Johnston his magnanimity is scarcely paralleled by that of any victorious commander whereas in his long general orders for the conduct of his troops on their travel from demolished Atlanta to his goal by the sea, fully one half of his words are directions for systematic "foraging," destruction of "mills, houses, cotton-gins," etc., and for spreading "a devastation more or less relentless" according to the hostility shown by different localities on the line of his march. It is due to General Sherman to say that he had his peculiar ideas of waging war and making it "hell," but when it was over he declared, "It is our solemn duty to protect and not to plunder."
....In looking back now over that valley of death--the period of reconstruction,-- its waste and its woe, it is hard to realize that the worn and impoverished Confederates were able to go through it.
....The Southern people felt that they had cause to complain of President Grant for a lack of sympathy during those years when imported rulers misled credulous negroes and piled taxes to the point of confiscation in order to raise revenues which failed to find their way into State treasuries....
Before the meeting at Appomattox the Confederates were decidedly prejudiced against General Grant, chiefly because of his refusal to exchange prisoners and thus relieve from unspeakable suffering the thousands of incarcerated men of both armies.
Did most of our ancestors want to fight, or were they forced to do so by the governments which started the wars, as well as by peer pressure, exploitative propaganda, loyalty to and love of their fellow soldiers, etc.?
Were most so willing to sacrifice and to die in order to win the battles they fought because they believed in a cause, such as saving their families and property from a devastating invasion?
Why did our most famous leaders foolishly and repeatedly kill so many thousands of our brave and loyal kinsmen by ordering them to fight as they did, charging across miles of open ground in broad daylight against superior numbers of well entrenched and better armed enemy troops on higher ground, as though victories could be won by a blood sacrifice to their alien god?
Although I rejoice that my kinsmen "won" a few battles, I mourn every casualty of the fratricidal wars we have been forced to fight (both sides of almost every war in North America, Europe and the Middle East have been fought almost exclusively by our civilized Indo-Hittite [Germanic, Celtic, Slavic, Aryan, Hittite, etc.] ancestors since over four millennia ago, when savage Semitic Hyksos/Chaldean herdsmen first suceeded in conquering our ancestors' previously peaceful and undivided ten thousand plus year old Hamitic [non Judeo Christian] civilization in the Fertile Crescent).
If our bonds of kinship and race were as strong as those of uncivilized ethnic groups, would we have allowed exploitative owners of our religious and other mass broadcast media (in the name of our compassion and noble values) to manipulate us into supporting or voting for the governments which have killed our own cousins by the tens of millions, without benefiting in any way our still preeminent civilization, which has become a far smaller percentage of the world population than it was a few generations ago, and is rapidly being replaced by races with far higher crime rates?
Should we be more like racist Hebrews, who say: "Jews never kill Jews", and whose religion says "Devour all the nations which God puts in your hands" (Deuteronomy 7.16)? Will our fratricide continue until our governments are no longer in the hands of our genocidal enemies (Deuteronomy 7.24)?
Was the Confederate soldiers' cause racism and slavery, as claimed by the Hebrew owners of most of the mass broadcast media (see http://www.natvan.com/who-rules-america/ ) and the Negroes they exploit?
While Abraham Lincoln's government sacked the South, it:
See more at http://www.southernmessenger.org/main%20page.htm
I know of no ancestor or descendant of Rose and James Stewart who ever owned a slave. They and other Presbyterians opposed slavery. Less than 5% of Southerns of non Semitic ancestry owned slaves. Negroes owned many slaves in SC, and still do in Africa.
Because the Imperial Royal and Federal governments which ruled South Carolina allowed slavery, our civilization will never recover (the worst is yet to come).
URLs that are not high lit can be copied and pasted into the Browser address input field.
I created this web page after my visit to www.southernmessenger.org/
The South Carolina in the Civil War Homepage is at http://members.tripod.com/mwyckoff/index.html
Links to 90 SC Civil War Rosters
are at www.oocities.org/Area51/Lair/3680/cw/cw-sc.html
Links to Civil War Rosters of other states are at www.oocities.org/Area51/Lair/3680/cw/cw.html
http://csaartillery.homestead.com/soldiers.html professes to help locate the graves of CSA soldiers, but email to "G. Grant Mishoe" <csaartillery@aol.com> bounces.
www.rootsweb.com/~scpicken/civilwar/ and www.rootsweb.com/~scpicken/civilwar/howto.htm are about how to find information about CSA soldiers, etc.
www.researchonline.net/sccw/index.htm Mormon Church (commercially oriented) Civil War and Genealogy web sites
www.state.sc.us/scdah/homepage.htm is a web page of the SC Archives and History Department (803-896-6100).