Anderson County · Marker 04-08
Confederate Skirmish
Corner of Main St. (S.C. Hwy. 20) and Park Dr.
Front inscription
On May 1, 1865, cadets from the Arsenal Academy at Columbia, under Capt. John Peyre Thomas, who were enroute from Greenville to Newberry to be disbanded, met a band of Stoneman's raiders near here in one of the last engagements of the war, which had begun in Charleston harbor with shots fired from a post manned by cadets from the Citadel Academy.