Skirmish At Killian’s Mill
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* † Marker not assigned number. Proposed location. Location information is approximate. Marker text revised in 2016. Original sponsor line and date retained. On February 18, 1865, the day after Federals under Gen. W.T. Sherman occupied Columbia, Gen. Frank Blair ordered units of his XVII Corps to destroy railroad tracks north of the city.
Portions of Gen. M.C. Butler’s Confederate cavalry division, including the 4th, 5th, & 6th S.C. Cavalry, fought a rear-guard action with Blair at nearby Killian’s Mill, then withdrew toward Winnsboro. Erected by the Hampton’s Iron Scouts Camp # 1945, Sons of Confederate Veterans, 2003
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