Qualla: Battle of Boykin's Mill https://qualla.com/battle-of-boykin-s-mill en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:06 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Battle of Boykin's Mill https://qualla.com/battle-of-boykin-s-mill Battle of Boykin's Mill: Introduction https://qualla.com/battle-of-boykin-s-mill/ Burrell H. Boykin was fourteen years old. The land he was defending belonged to his family. The Union soldiers walking up the narrow embankment toward the abandoned fort were the Massachusetts 54th - the famous African American regiment - and the officer leading them was First Lieutenant E. L. Stevens. Burrell raised his weapon and fired. Stevens fell. He was the last Union officer killed in action during the American Civil War, and the battle of Boykin's Mill, on April 18, 1865, was the last battle of any size fought on South Carolina soil. Lee had surrendered nine days earlier. Joseph Johnston would not surrender for another eight. In the gap between those dates, in a quiet milltown, a teenager and an officer met and the war took two more lives.

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]]> Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/n/d/battle-of-boykin-s-mill-wp/dnnd-battle-of-boykins-mill-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Battle of Boykin's Mill: The Last Days of Potter's Raid https://qualla.com/battle-of-boykin-s-mill/ Brigadier General Edward E. Potter had landed at Georgetown with 2,700 men and orders to wreck the South Carolina railroads. His Second Brigade was commanded by Colonel Edward N. Hallowell, who had himself been wounded at Fort Wagner in 1863 and now led his old regiment - the 54t...

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]]> Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/n/d/battle-of-boykin-s-mill-wp/dnnd-battle-of-boykins-mill-the-last-days-of-potters-raid.mp3 0:06 2 full Battle of Boykin's Mill: The Narrow Embankment https://qualla.com/battle-of-boykin-s-mill/ Sergeant Major Joseph Thomas Wilson, who would later write 'The Black Phalanx,' a pioneering history of African American military service, was there. He recorded the terrain plainly: 'No better position could be found for a defense, as the only approach to it, was by a narrow emb...

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]]> Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/n/d/battle-of-boykin-s-mill-wp/dnnd-battle-of-boykins-mill-the-narrow-embankment.mp3 0:06 3 full Battle of Boykin's Mill: Outnumbered, Routed, and the Mill Burned https://qualla.com/battle-of-boykin-s-mill/ The Confederate defenders were heavily outnumbered. Once the 54th made the embankment and the rest of the brigade closed up, the Southerners ran. Union troops pursued the fleeing column without success. The mill itself was burned to the ground in accordance with Sherman's scorche...

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]]> Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/n/d/battle-of-boykin-s-mill-wp/dnnd-battle-of-boykins-mill-outnumbered-routed-and-the-mill-burned.mp3 0:06 4 full Battle of Boykin's Mill: The Child Soldier and the Last Officer https://qualla.com/battle-of-boykin-s-mill/ It is the detail of Burrell Boykin's age that has fixed Boykin's Mill in memory. A fourteen-year-old child took the shot that killed the last Union officer of the war. He was a member of the Confederate Home Guard - the local militia of old men and boys mobilized when the regular...

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