The State Newspaper: One of the most intact Civil War battle sites in the country is a rifle shot from I-77 in Lexington County, where Congaree Creek crosses Old State Road. Now, nearly 150 years after that battle, a new archaeological study pinpoints the most active battle line, just a hundred yards or so from the new Timmerman Trail in Cayce. That tete-de-pont is where Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman’s troops coming up from Savannah ran into opposition from Confederate troops hoping to slow the march to Columbia. Read more here: thestate/2014/10/15/3747013/study-pinpoints-peak-of-civil.html#emlnl=Morning_newsletter#storylink=cpy
Posted on: Thu, 16 Oct 2014 12:54:45 +0000
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