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This unit was originally called the 16th Battalion South Carolina Partisan Rangers - Aiken's Regiment, the 1st Reg. South Carolina Partisan Rangers, and Aiken's 1st Regiment South Carolina Partisan Rangers. It was a part of the state militia troops. The men were formally mustered into Confederate service as the 16th Battalion, South Carolina ...
Prince R. Rivers (c. 1824–1887) was a former enslaved man from South Carolina who served as a soldier in the Union Army and as a state politician during the Reconstruction era. He escaped and joined Union lines, becoming a sergeant in the 1st South Carolina Volunteers, a Union regiment in the American Civil War.
William Aiken Jr. (January 28, 1806 – September 6, 1887) was the 61st governor of South Carolina, serving from 1844 to 1846.He also served in the state legislature and the United States House of Representatives, running unsuccessfully for speaker of the House in 1856 in "the longest and most contentious Speaker election in House history."
South Carolina was the first state to secede from the Union in December 1860, and was one of the founding member states of the Confederacy in February 1861. The bombardment of the beleaguered U.S. garrison at Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor on April 12, 1861, is generally recognized as the first military engagement of the war.
Hamburg, SC as shown in Mills' Atlas, 1825. Hamburg is a ghost town in Aiken County, South Carolina, United States.It was once a thriving upriver market located across the Savannah River from Augusta, Georgia in the Edgefield District.
The U.S. state of South Carolina is made up of 46 counties, the maximum allowable by state law. [1] [2] They range in size from 392 square miles (1,015 square kilometers) in the case of Calhoun County to 1,358 square miles (3,517 square kilometers) in the case of Charleston County.
Area served City of license VC RF Callsign Network Notes Charleston: 2 20 WCBD-TV: NBC: CW on 2.2, Ion on 2.3, Laff on 2.4 : 4 34 WGWG: METV: Catchy Comedy on 4.2, Antenna TV on 4.3, Start TV on 4.4, Heroes and Icons on 4.5
HABS No. SC-373-D, "South Carolina Railroad-Southern Railway Company, Carriage House, 456 King Street", 2 photos, 2 photo caption pages; HABS No. SC-373-B, "South Carolina Railroad-Southern Railway Company, Camden Depot, Anne Street", 4 photos, 2 photo caption pages