Congaree River

And so is your, your home state, South Carolina.

You know, we, my family and I went camping at Congaree.

and not too far from where you are.

Oh, yeah.

I know Congaree.

I call it Dagobah National

Park.

I'm like, how do you not know this exists? This is like 20 minutes from your store here.

And I guess three or four years ago, I'd put a mineral site in there, but the hogs had wallowed it out.

We've got a ton of hogs in the Congaree River Swamp.

They had made it a wallow and it was full of water.

And I walked over there to it.

We, we got lots of mosquitoes and we got lots of water.

There's the Congaree River.

There's guts full of w- There's water everywhere.

Why is this deer coming to drink out of this spot? You know, noted.

Question: Please state in your own way your recollection of the circumstances attending the occupation of that city and the destruction of a portion of it.

Answer: On the fifteenth of February, in the vicinity of Columbia, opposite thereto, across the Congaree, we met with much resistance at Congaree Creek and had to push our way very slowly, the enemy retiring before us.

When we arrived opposite Columbia, we found the bridge across the Congaree destroyed by fire.

We moved up to where the two rivers, the Saluda and the Broad, conjoined to form the Congaree.

The bridge across the Saluda was destroyed by fire by the enemy.

We bridged that and crossed our troops.

State what actual hostilities occurred near Columbia immediately before its occupation, if any.

Answer.