With Mike Burgess

Primary sources are the focus for this class, as we examine entries from the wartime diaries of two South Carolina ladies.

In this session, we’ll look at the men behind the big guns – specifically, the cannoneers defending Columbia, and the ones shelling Columbia, in 1865.

SWORDFEST 26

March 7, 2026.

10 am to 4 pm

With Linda Caldwell

Who led the Beefsteak Raid? Which Confederate later wore blue, and gave orders to Theodore Roosevelt? And where was the Battle of Kilpatrick’s Trousers?

With Bruce Cotner

We’ll end our Spring series, with the end of the war.  After years of danger and misery, the war ended – but not all at once, and surviving soldiers faced new c

With Mike Burgess