Stop 06 - Town of Hartsville
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The remainder of Col. Bennett’s Cavalry made their way into town. The 9th succeeded in capturing 450 Federals, including Co. A, 104th Illinois, who were posted here to guard the town. The Union soldiers had occupied many buildings in town including the Locke Hotel on the corner of Main St. and Broadway at the site of the old bank of Hartsville building. Two buildings used as hospitals still stand today. At the corner of church and West Main stands the Hager building (now Total Image), built in 1838. This building housed the bed patients. Behind the Hager building on Church Street stands the old Methodist Church, built in 1843, soldiers with less severe wounds were treated here.
(Get out and stretch your legs. Look around Historic Hartsville. Next drive back out Hwy 141 S (River Street) 0.6 miles, turn right on Rom Lane to Stop #7)
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