Battle of Rivers' Bridge
Feb. 2-3, 1865
The End is Near
The Union Victory broke the main Confederate line of defense in lower South Carolina. McLaws' troops retreated to another line behind the Edisto River about 20 miles northeast of here, then continued to fall back as Sherman's army advanced. Two weeks after the battle, Sherman's troops took Columbia. Less
than three months after the battle at Rivers Bridge, the war ended.
" Again at the hospital I see the horrid results of every battle. Men mutilated in every shape conceivable, groaning, begging for assistance and gasping in death. Many of our wounded will have to lie
all night in that horrid swamp." - Maj. Oscar L. Jackson 63rd Ohio Infantry
" Still the loss of life was very small, in proportion to the advantage gained, for the enemy at once abandoned the whole line of the Salkewatchie." - Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman
Marker can be reached from SC-S-5-8, on the right when traveling south.
Courtesy hmdb.org
