Product Description
This book follows the men and events of the 15th South Carolina Infantry from the time they mustered into Confederate service in the Fall of 1861 until the regiment was surrendered to General William Tecumseh Sherman in April 1865. With more than 150 maps and photographs, this 600-page book describes the 20 major Civil War battles in which the 15th South Carolina fought. Included are personal biographies and the war records of the 1,442 men who served in the regiment providing readers a front row seat from which they can experience life and death on the front lines of the American Civil War.
About the Author
<div>James B. Clary grew up in Gaffney, South Carolina. He received his bachelor's and master's degrees in electrical engineering from Clemson University and served as a signal corps officer in the US Army. His interest in the 15th South Carolina Infantry Regiment in the American Civil War stems from a life-long love of history coupled with the fact that the men who served in one of the companies had names familiar to his home area. Discovering that the 15th South Carolina had never been fully documented, Jim began what turned out to be a 12-year research and writing project to locate as much first-hand information as possible upon which to document the events and the men of the 15th South Carolina from 1861 through 1865. The result is this approximately six-hundred-page book with over one hundred fifty maps, photographs and sketches. Included also are brief, personal biographies of each of the approximately one thousand four hundred forty-two men who served in the regiment.</div>