Lindenkohl, A. North Carolina & South Carolina. [S.l., U.S. Coast Survey, A. D. Bache, Supdt, 1865] Map. Retrieved from the Library of Congress.

In mid-February of 1865, the 9th Michigan Cavalry Regiment began moving from Columbia, South Carolina to Phillip’s Crossroads, North Carolina (Turner 3-4). 

The regiment’s movement into North Carolina came after the regiment joined General William Tecumseh Sherman’s army during the Atlanta Campaign before the fall of Atlanta. From there, the regiment fought under General Hugh Judson Kilpatrick’s Cavalry Corps, marching from “Atlanta to the Sea” and engaging in frequent combat (Turner 3-4). When the regiment arrived in Savannah, Georgia, General Kilpatrick selected the regiment to escort him to St. Catherine’s Sound on the Atlantic Coast, making the regiment the first of General Sherman’s army to reach the coast. 

After Savannah, the regiment joined the Carolina Campaign on January 27, 1865. Still under the command of General Sherman, the regiment traveled throughout South Carolina engaging with the Confederacy at many points before February 16, 1865, when they began their movement from the Broad River Bridge in Columbia, South Carolina to Phillip’s Crossroads, North Carolina (Turner 3-4). This marked the beginning of the Carolina Campaign in North Carolina.

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