Talk:McPhersonville, South Carolina
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The burning of McPhersonville, South Carolina, as depicted by William Waud, in both a preliminary sketch (top) and an engraving published in Harper's Weekly in 1865. During the American Civil War (1861–65), McPhersonville was a Confederate stronghold. Early in the Carolinas Campaign, Union forces under Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman razed the town, leaving only two pre-war homes and one church.Engraving: William Waud; Restoration: Adam Cuerden