Biographies, Charlestonians In the War

George Trenholm, Blockade Runner, Confederate Patriot

Biographical Articles about Charlestonians in the American Civil War listed in alphabetical order by subject. If you know of others on the web, or have a biography you would like to put online here, contact William Hamilton.

• General P.T.G. Beauregard Ordered first shots of war, commanded at 1st. Mannassas, Defender of Charleston.
• Mary Boykin Chestnut, the famous South Carolina Diarist, author of Diary from Dixie spent lots of time in Charleston..
• Mary PringleA chapter from Cote's upcoming book on Mary Pringle during 1865
  
• John Johnson, Confederate Engineer, who repaired and reported the 500 day bombardment of Ft. Sumter and siege of Charleston in "The Defense of Charleston Harbor" and went on after the war to a carreer as an Episcopal Priest.
  
• Phoebe Yates Levy Pember, Confederate Nurse and administrator of Richmond's Chimborazo Hospital. Her entire memoir, the book length A Southern Women's Story is now online.
• Robert Smalls, A Charleston slave who piloted the ship Planter to freedom.
• George Trenholm, Blockade Runner
• Essays by C. Michael Harrington on the Whilden Family in the Civil War
  • Private Charles Whilden, Impromptu Color Bearer of Gregg's 1st. South Carolina Infantry By C. Michael Harrington. A Charlestonian goes North and West but returns after ten years to fight for his state at the Mule Shoe.
  • William Whilden: Charleston Merchant and Washington Artillerist" Artillary Service along the South Carolina Coast. 2nd. in a series of three on the Wilden Brothers of Charleston.
  • John Whilden, Boy Major of the Coast Rangers - an article by Michael Harrington on the young major who helped fire the first shots on the Star of the West and helped purchase the Confederate Victory at 2nd. Manassas with his life.

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