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Gordon Thorsby
Jun 2, 20224 min read
Five Brothers of South Carolina, One Remains in the Trenches of Petersburg
by Gordon Thorsby Brigadier Gen. Mathew C. Butler, of the South Carolina Brigade James Madison Hough wrote what may have been an epitaph...
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Gordon Thorsby
Apr 12, 20224 min read
The Michiganders Meet the Lancaster Grays and the Invincibles
by Gordon Thorsby View near Knoxville of the Tennessee River Maj. Gen Ambrose Burnside established a delaying defense so the could get...
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Gordon Thorsby
Apr 5, 20224 min read
The 2nd South Carolina's Advance on Bigelow's Battery at Gettysburg
by Gordon Thorsby Capt. McManus Marvel Comics had their Avengers but in the Civil War, South Carolina had Company H of the 2nd South...
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Gordon Thorsby
Mar 22, 20223 min read
When Beauregard's Napoleons Departed Missionary Ridge
by Gordon Thorsby Thomas Barker Ferguson was a twenty-one Citadel graduate when he was made first lieutenant of his forming artillery...
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Gordon Thorsby
Mar 17, 20223 min read
Retribution in a Total War
by Gordon Thorsby On February 28, 1865, in Chesterfield County near the SC/NC state line, the body of Pvt. Robert M. Woodruff, Co. H of...
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