Manigault's Battalion, South Carolina Artillery

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Brief History
18th Heavy Artillery Battalion [often called the Siege Train Artillery Battalion] was organized during the spring of 1862 with three companies. Many of the men were from Charleston. It surrendered on April 26, 1865.

Other Sources

 * Manigault, Edward; Warren Ripley; Charleston Library Society. Siege train : The Journal of a Confederate Artilleryman in the Defense of Charleston (Columbia, S.C.; Published for the Charleston Library Society by the University of South Carolina Press, ©1986), 364 pages. Book at WorldCat.org