To my knowledge that bastard Sherman never came near us here on the Virginia
Peninsula!
Thank God!
Deane Ferguson Mills
York County VA


> 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
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> Send reply to:          Discussion of research and writing about Virginia
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>
> > 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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