The South Carolina Secessionist       Dateline Week of May 16th
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News from the Front:

1862

The struggle for Corinth Mississippi continues.  South Carolina
troops deployed there to protect the city are the 10th and 19th
Infantry Regiments under Colonel Arthur M. Manigault and Colonel
William C. Moragne respectively.

1863

Capt. Beauregard's Company of Light Artillery and the 14th Infantry
Regiment under Colonel Clement H. Stevens were engaged in a battle
at Jackson, Mississippi on 14 MAY 1863.

John L. Adamson, age 22 of the 7th Regiment, Company C died of
disease 08 MAY 1863 at Hanover Junction, VA.  He was from the
Allendale District. 

1864

The terrible battle which began at the Spotsylvania Court House on
the 8th of May, continues.  Twenty-four regiments from South
Carolina are involved and the casualties are reported to be great.

Capt. Ficklin's Co. Artillery (Brooks Light Artillery)
Capt. Garden's Co. Light Artillery (Palmetto Light Battery)
Capt. Zimmerman's Co., Artillery (Pee Dee Artillery)
Washington Artillery Battery 
4th Cavalry Regiment
5th Cavalry Regiment
6th Cavalry Regiment
1st (Hagood's) Infantry Regiment
1st (McCreary's) Infantry Regiment (1st Provisional Army)
1st (Orr's Rifles) Infantry Regiment Rifles
2d Infantry Regiment
2d Infantry Regiment Rifles 
3d Infantry Battalion (Lawmen's and James')
3d Infantry Regiment
5th Infantry Regiment
6th Infantry Regiment
7th Infantry Regiment
8th Infantry Regiment 
12th Infantry Regiment
13th Infantry Regiment
14th Infantry Regiment
15th Infantry Regiment
Palmetto Sharp Shooters (Jenkins Infantry Regiment) 

Losses reported from the field for the following days:

                 SUN   MON   TUE   WED   THU   FRI
                 8TH   9TH   10TH  11TH  12TH  13TH
1st regiment      79                      43 
12th regiment    118                      34
12th regiment     86                      49    
14th regiment     95                      52
Orr's rifles      27                      33   

Although we do not have the reports at hand, we believe the other
regiments suffered comparable loss.  The following report was
attached to the recent casualty list.

"On the night of the 13th, we were roused, for some reason unknown
to us, but were only compelled to sit up and listen to a rambling
picket-fire on the outer line.  The next day we spent quietly,
until late in the afternoon, when we were marched east of the Court
House, and halted by a little church that stands perhaps half a
mile there-from.  We slept in the rain.  On Sunday, 15th, we had
divine service in the brigade.  The rain continued.  We were this
day, or the next, again moved to the west side of the Court House,
and placed in the works, just at the point we had left to join the
battle of the 12th.  Here we have remained, awaiting the movements
of the enemy.  Our picket line was perhaps three hundred yards in
front.

Holcombe's Infantry Legion was engaged at Jarratt's Station on the
8th of May, and on the 9th of May, the 7th, 11th, 21st, 25th, and
27th Infantry Regiments were engaged at Swift Creek.  These same
units were again engaged at Drewry's Bluff on the 12th and 16th of
May.

Here in South Carolina, skirmishes were reported on Wednesday, the
11th at Dafuskee Island, on Friday at James Island and on Monday,
the 16th at the Ashepoo River.

T. M. Adams of the 12th Regiment, Company I was killed in action 12
MAY 1864 the Battle of the Wilderness.  He was from the Lancaster
District.

Joseph J. Addison, age 36 of the 7th Infantry Battalion Company H
was killed in action at Drury's Bluff, VA on 16 MAY 1864.  He was
From the Richland District.

W. B. Aiken of the 15th Regiment, Company E was killed in action at
Spotsylvania, VA on 12 MAY 1864.  He was from the Fairfield
District.

J. H. Allen, age 24 of the 12th Regiment, Company H was killed in
action at Spotsylvania, VA on 12 MAY 1864.  He was from the York
District.

2nd Lieut. Paul C. Allen of the 1st Regiment (Hagood's) died 16 MAY
1864 at Lynchburg, VA of wounds received at the Battle of the
Wilderness.  He was from the Barnwell District.

J. E. Allgood, age 23, of the Palmetto Sharpshooters Regiment
(Fickling's Battery) was killed in action at Spotsylvania, VA on 08
MAY 1864.  He was from the Pickens District.

3rd Lieut. Wade Allen of the 3rd Regiment, Company D died in prison
at Ft. Delaware, DE on 07 MAY 1864.  He is buried in the Finn's
Point, NJ National Cemetery.  He was from the Spartanburg District.

J. Wesley Altman of the 21st Regiment, Company I died at Swift
Creek, VA on 09 MAY 1864 of wounds he received on 28 MAR 1862.  He
was from the Marion District.

1865

2nd Sergt. Hiram L. Adams of the 19th Regiment, Company C died on
15 MAY 1865 in Nashville, TN of wounds he received on 16 DEC 1864. 
He was from the Edgefield District.

Many men are returning from Virginia and North Carolina to find
their farms ruined, their families scattered, and their livelihood
threatened.  Major Joseph Abney of Edgefield is circulating the
following letter soliciting others to join him in migrating to
Brazil.

"The future is enveloped in clouds and darkness, and we were less
than men if we made no efforts for the preservation of our families
and to avert the manifold dangers that lie in the way...hunger and
starvation and madness and crime will run through our borders...
being assured that vast numbers of our friends who are destitute of
good farming lands, and now also destitute of labor, and yet are
embarrassed with debt, must be brought to beggary unless they
exchange their accustomed habitations for a more genial clime and
more fruitful soil, it is our purpose to form a Southern
Colonization Society."

EDITORS NOTE:  Ultimately some 20,000 are estimated to have
migrated to Brazil after the war.  In view of the fact that South
Carolina lost approx. 22,000 killed in the war, this exodus
represented a tremendous drain.  I have found only a few hundred
names so far, but I have a list of 327 surnames represented in
those who migrated.  If you want a copy of this list, drop me a
note.

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Excerpted from
The Civil War in South Carolina
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