South Carolinians who gave their lives on the fields of Vicksburg for the Southern Confederacy were honored in a monument dedicated in 1935 by the South Carolina Division United Daughters of the Confederacy. Its inscription calls for future generations and strangers alike to remember them as men whom power could not corrupt, death could not terrify, and defeat could not dishonor, and to let their virtues plead for just judgment of the cause in which they perished. It says South Carolina taught them how to live and how to die and preserved for her children the priceless treasure of their memories, teaching that truth, courage, and patriotism endure forever. The South Carolina troops engaged in this campaign were Gist's Brigade; Sixteenth and Twenty Fourth South Carolina Regiments; Ferguson's Battery; Evan's Brigade; Twenty Second, Twenty Third, and Twenty Sixth South Carolina Regiments; and Holcombe Legion.
