The Capture and Destruction of Columbia, South Carolina February 17, 1865: Personal Experiences and Recollections of Major H. C. McArthur
Abstract
Many comrades have called my attention to accounts in The National Tribune written by Comrades Van Norstrand, Co. B, and Phelps, of Co. F, 30th lowa, and others, relating to the first to enter and raise the Stars and Stripes in the city of Columbia, Feb. 17, 1865. I was a member of the 15th lowa, and at that time Aid-de-Camp on the staff of Gen. Wm. W. Belknap, commanding Crocker's lowa Brigade, Seventeenth Corps. Being the person who first suggested the undertaking of crossing the Congaree River in front of the city, I urged the attempt be made, and, with others, successfully accomplished what we started out to do, viz, raise the first flag over the State House of Columbia, I have a right to speak authoritatively of the enterprise.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Aug 03, 1911
- Accession Number
- AD1117482
Entities
People
- H. C. Mcarthur