Battle of Congaree Creek

The Battle of Congaree Creek (also known as the Skirmish at Congaree Creek) was a four-hour action that took place in the waning days of the American Civil War, fought in Lexington County, South Carolina, on February 15, 1865, just south of Columbia on the site of the former town of Granby.

Battle of Congaree Creek
Skirmish at Congaree Creek
Part of the Campaign of the Carolinas
DateFebruary 15, 1865 (1865-02-15)
Location
Cayce, South Carolina
33°57′38.04″N 81°02′17.04″W
Result Union victory
Belligerents
United States (Union) CSA (Confederacy)
Casualties and losses
20 Unknown
Congaree Creek
Location within South Carolina

Battle

The battle featured the Union's Army of the Tennessee against the Confederacy's Army of Tennessee meeting at a half-mile-long earthwork erected by Southern forces near the Old State Road Bridge over Congaree Creek.[1] Confederate General George Dibrell's dismounted cavalry brigade, supported by infantry and artillery, manned the earthworks, but General Charles Woods' 1st Division of General John A. Logan's XV Corps pushed skirmishers ahead while one of Woods' brigades crossed upstream and turned the Southerners' right flank. Dibrell's force withdrew from Congaree Creek and then from its earthworks, retreating to Columbia. Though the Confederates set fire to the bridge, the Federals saved it and made their camp nearby that night, according to a historical marker erected at the site by the 15th Regiment S.C. Volunteer Camp of the Sons of Confederate Veterans.[2]

Aftermath

Two days later, Union General William T. Sherman's army advanced to Columbia.

References
  1. Battle of Congaree Creek, S.C. Military Order of the Stars and Bars, 2009 Archived December 4, 2008, at the Wayback Machine Broken or dead link, April 2016.
  2. Historical Markers Associated with the Civil War, Battle of Congaree Creek Archived 2018-02-16 at the Wayback Machine at S.C. Archives and History Foundation


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