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  • Battle of Dingle's Mill
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  • Major General Quincy A. Gillmore ordered a provisional division assembled under the command of Brigadier General Edward E. Potter. Potter was ordered to destroy the railroads in the area between Florence, Sumter, and Camden. The importance of the mission was pointedly made by Sherman's statement that "Those cars and locomotives should be destroyed if to do it costs you 500 men." Potter took command of the provisional division on April 1, 1865, at Georgetown. The division numbered 2,700 men composed of two infantry brigades and auxiliary troops.
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Partof
  • the American Civil War
Date
  • 1865-04-09
Commander
Casualties
  • 2
  • 4
  • 6
  • 7
  • 20
Result
  • Union victory
Place
  • Sumterville, Sumter County, South Carolina.
Conflict
  • Battle of Dingle's Mill
Units
  • brigades
abstract
  • Major General Quincy A. Gillmore ordered a provisional division assembled under the command of Brigadier General Edward E. Potter. Potter was ordered to destroy the railroads in the area between Florence, Sumter, and Camden. The importance of the mission was pointedly made by Sherman's statement that "Those cars and locomotives should be destroyed if to do it costs you 500 men." Potter took command of the provisional division on April 1, 1865, at Georgetown. The division numbered 2,700 men composed of two infantry brigades and auxiliary troops. The First Brigade commanded by Col. Philip P. Brown commander of the 157th N.Y consisted of: * 157th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment augmented by a detachment of the 56th N.Y. Veteran Volunteer Infantry * 25th Ohio Veteran Volunteer Infantry * 107th Ohio Volunteer Infantry The Second Brigade, commanded by Col. Edward Needles Hallowell, commander of the 54th Massachusetts consisted of: * 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry * 32nd Regiment United States Colored Troops * 102nd Regiment United States Colored Troops In addition small detachments of the 1st New York Engineers, 4th Massachusetts Cavalry and two guns of Battery B 3rd New York Artillery accompanied the two infantry brigades.
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