Early this morning cannonading was begun in front of the
Fifteenth Corps, followed by some lively skirmishing, and the rebels were
routed from their works and driven across the Congaree river. The Fifteenth
Corps then marched up along the south bank of the river above the city of
Columbia, to the forks, where the Saluda and Broad rivers form the Congaree, and
crossed the Saluda on the pontoons. In the meantime our regiment was behind on
train guard and did not come into action. We moved forward and with our corps
went into camp for the night on the south bank of the Congaree, just opposite
Columbia, the state capital.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 253
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