Lamar, Alexander, now a Color Sergeant in the 79th planted the United States Flag before the parapet of Ft.
At the peak of the first, and most successful attack against Ft. Neither knowing at the time, they fought each other at Secessionville. this was a war that there never was the like of before Brother against Brother." He relayed the information home in a letter to his wife on June 10. Federal Alex learned of his Confederate brother's service in the vicinity of Secessionville from Henry Walker, a prisoner captured in a skirmish on June 3, 1862. Alex's unit was transferred to Charleston and occupied parts of James Island in early June 1862, placing him in sight of the city where he and his brother had once lived and that's conquest he had sworn to help obtain. In New York, Alexander joined the 79th Highlander regiment.Īs preparations for war were made on both sides, the brother's corresponded. In March 1862, James and the Union Infantry were consolidated into the Charleston Battalion. While in Charleston he also enlisted in a militia company later identified in letters from his brother as "the H.G.s" which was probably the Home Guards, composed of foreign born residents of Charleston. Customs House being built at the end of Market Street shortly before the war. His brother Alexander settled in New York, but spent time in Charleston working as a stone mason on the new U.S. Highlanders (probably after the 42nd British Black Watch Regiment because of its predominately Scottish ethnicity). Confederate James Campbell settled in Charleston where he worked as a drayman and clerk, joining a militia company known as the Union Light Infantry, sometimes called 42nd. They immigrated to America in the 1850's. Two brothers, born in Scotland and building new lives in America found themselves fighting each other for their adoptive countries at Secessionville in 1862. Tracey Power, "Brother Against Brother: Alexander and James Campbells's Civil War," South Carolina Historical Magazine, 95:2 (April 1994) Saved Land Browse Interactive Map View active campaignsĮxcerpted from a longer and more detailed article by J.Help Tell African American Stories of Valor.Help Protect 407 Acres Across Four Sacred Battlefields.
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