I think you are correct.
And I think that it was I who started the responses off in the misdirection.
My apologies. I simply did not read the original query as well as I should
have.
Deane Mills
York County VA
----- Original Message -----
From: Johnson, Eric <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2001 9:56 AM
Subject: Re: Virginia and South Carolina in the wars
> I'm sorry, but I understood the question to be about whether Sherman took
> Charleston, SC--not Yorktown, VA--the same way Cornwallis did 85 years
> earlier. Am I wrong on that?
>
> --Eric
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Harold S. Forsythe [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> > Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2001 9:50 AM
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Re: Virginia and South Carolina in the wars
> >
> >
> > Randy and All,
> >
> > Did Sherman take Yorktown? I thought General Benjamin Butler
> > was in command at Fortress Monroe when Yorktown fell.
> > Moreover, like Fortress Monroe and Hampton, York County
> > became a major location of resettlement on freedpeople. The
> > importance of this being that had Confederate troops returned to
> > the County, black irregulars would have been mustered to defend
> > these communities, even prior to actual enlistment of black
> > Virginians into the Union Army.
> >
> >
> > Date sent: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 08:50:42 -0400
> > From: Randy Cabell <[log in to unmask]>
> > Subject: Virginia and South Carolina in the wars
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Send reply to: Discussion of research and writing
> > about Virginia history
> > <[log in to unmask]>
> >
> > > I am interested in any Virginia military presence in South
> > Carolina in the
> > > Revolutionary War. I am aware of:
> > >
> > > Revolutionary War:
> > > - Gen Danl Morgan coming out of retirement to lead
> > continental troops at
> > > Cowpens. - Some Va regiments surrendering at Charleston in 1780 when
> > > Cornwallis took the place. Does anybody know the designation of the
> > > regiments and how many troops surrendered?
> > >
> > > Civil War:
> > > - No knowledge of any Virginia troops there.
> > > - But a general question. Did Sherman take the city the same way
> > > Cornwallis did by cutting it off from the rest of the
> > mainland. i.e NOT
> > > by sea.
> > >
> > > Randy Cabell
> > >
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> >
> > Harold S. Forsythe
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> > Fairfield University
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