Potter's Raid Through South Carolina:: The Final Days of the Confederacy

by Tom Elmore

In April 1865, Richmond had fallen, and the Confederacy was dying. Robert E. Lee had surrendered his army to Ulysses S. Grant in Virginia. Joseph Johnston was in North Carolina negotiating the surrender of his army to William T. Sherman. But in South Carolina, General Edward Potter was leading 2,500 Union soldiers, including the famed African American regiment the Fifty-fourth Massachusetts, through the state's interior, intent on destroying the railroads...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1626199590
• ISBN13: 9781626199590
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: History Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 8.9"