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Ferguson's Battery South Carolina Artillery

No Marker Placed

No Marker Placed

Listed on the South Carolina State Memorial. This unit was attached to Brig. Gen. States Rights Gist's Brigade, of Maj. Gen. William H.T. Walker's Division, Gen. Joseph E. Johnston's Army of Relief, Department of the West, and commanded by Capt. T.B. Ferguson. [Refer to Edwin Bearss' The Vicksburg Campaign, Volume III, page 1152.]
 
Inscription on South Carolina State Memorial
Inscription on South Carolina State Memorial
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USS Cairo ca. 1862

The USS Cairo was only in service for 11 months before making history as the first U.S. marine vessel to be sunk by an electronically detonated mine.