The First
Battle of Pocotaligo was fought in Yemassee, South Carolina on May 29th
1862, with the Union objective of disrupting the Charleston and Savannah
Railroad.
A Union
detachment commanded by Colonel Benjamin C Christ and made up of the 1st
Massachusetts Cavalry, 8th Michigan Infantry, 79th New
York Infantry, and 50th Pennsylvania moved out from Beaufort, South
Carolina on May 29th 1862, toward the Charleston and Savannah
Railroad. As they moved toward
Pocotaligo, the Union troops began pushing in Confederate pickets. Reaching Pocotaligo the Union troops, where
they found the bridge destroyed, there was some heavy fighting. About 300 of the Union troops got across the
river, and drove the Confederates into the woods.
As the Union
mission, which was to destroy the bridge; had been obtained, the Union force
withdrew. Union casualties were 2 killed
and 9 wounded, while the Confederates reported losses of 2 killed, 6 wounded
and 1 man missing.
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