150th Anniversary Skirmish of Pocotaligo

This post was last updated on 17 October 2022. It was originally written to mark the 150th Anniversary of the Battle (some say Skirmish) of Pocotaligo. -- Grace Cordial

The BDC has some maps, books, prints, and vertical file materials you might want to review about the Battle of Pocotaligo:   

Vertical Files: 

Pocotaligo, Battle of, 1862 [BDC Vertical File]

Pocotaligo [BDC Vertical File]

Maps:

SC MAP #147 Reconnaisance of Upper Part of Broad River [I-50 Roll]

Maps #642, 643 Map of Rebel Lines of the Pocotaligo, Combahee, Ashepoo; South Carolina : to illustrate the operations of the Army, under command of Maj Gen W. T. Sherman, com[manding] Mill. Div. Of the Miss. From captured Rebel maps, and from surveys made under direction of Col. O. M. Poe, Capt. Engrs. Mill. Div. of the Miss. during the Savannah-Goldsboro Campaign.: 1865.  #642 & 643 [Image is an enlarged section of those maps] 

Prints: 

SC PRINT #28 The Federal troops, under Generals Brannan and Terry, driving the Confederates, under General Walker, across the Pocotaligo Bridge, near the Charleston and Savannah Railroad, October 22d, 1862 : The Soldier in the Civil War from a sketch by W. T. Crane.

SC PRINT #41 Pocotaligo Depot, South Carolina: Harper's Weekly, Saturday, February 25, 1865 sketched by Theodore R. Davis

SC PRINT #98, 99 "When General Brannan made his daring and successful dash upon the railroad between Pocotaligo and Coosawhatchie the terror both in Savannah and Charleston was very great. Despite the fact that General Beauregard with thirty thousand troops was stationed midway between the cities a restless desire for fight took possession of thousands, and for three days the roads to the interior were crowded with as miscellaneous a group as that which marched into Noah's ark. Lieutenant Kirby, of the Forty-seventh Massachusetts Regiment, being then a prisoner, had an excellent opportunity of sketching this motley stream of humanity. But our sketch renders all further description unnecessary." -- p. 302 of an unidentified source.

Books: 

SC 975.799 BAR A Phase I Cultural Resources Survey, Inventory, and Assessment of a 133 ha (328 ac) Tract of Land and Phase II Testing of Two Sites (38JA391 and 38JA392) identified on portions of Hutson "Cedar Grove" and Frampton "Old Field" Plantations located on Mackay Point fronting the West Bank of Pocotaligo River, Jasper County, South Carolina prepared by William B. Barr and Carole E. Bastian (2006).  The BDC has the only copy of this title in the SCLENDS consortium. 

SC 973.733 SCH The Battle of Pocotaligo, October 22, 1862 by Lewis G. Schmidt (1993). The Beaufort County Library has the only copies of this title in the SCLENDS consortium. 

SC 973.7 POC The Pocotaligo Expedition, Southwestern South Carolina, October 21-23, 1862 by Western Carolina Historical Research (1997).  

SC 973.7457 JON Enlisted for the War : The Struggles of the Gallant 24th Regiment, South Carolina Volunteers, Infantry, 1861 - 1865 by Eugene W. Jones (1997). 

SC 973.7757 STO Vital Rails : The Charleston & Savannah Railroad and the Civil War in coastal South Carolina by H. David Stone, Jr. (2008). Copies of this title are available through the Local History sections at the BCL Branch Libraries.

SC 975.799 ROW 2015 V. 2 The History of Beaufort County, South Carolina : Volume 2 : Rebellion, Reconstruction, and Redemption, 1861 - 1893 by Stephen R. Wise and Lawrence S. Rowland with Gerhard Spieler (2015). Copies of this title are available through the Local History sections at the BCL Branch Libraries.

SC 973.7757 CIV 2011 The Civil War in South Carolina : Selections from the South Carolina Historical Magazine by Stephen Hoffius and Lawrence Rowland (2011). Copies of this title are available through the Local History sections at the BCL Branch Libraries.

973.7 FOO V4 Shelby Foote, the Civil War, a Narrative: volume 4: Manassas to Pocotaligo by Shelby Foote (1999).

Online Resources: 

A Nineteenth Century Law Library: The Colcock - Hutson Collection (University of South Carolina Law Library) contains information about Pocotaligo and a few digital images.  

Text and/or image of historical markers: "Battle of Pocotaligo;" and Pocotaligo and Coosawhatchie area Civil War historical markers.

Our SC PRINT #41 is very similar to the Library of Congress' digital image Pocotaligo drawn by Theodore R. Davis. 

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