rect 6 0 798 497 rect 808 0 1525 496 desc none The burning of McPhersonville, South Carolina, as depicted by William Waud, in both a preliminary sketch (left) and an engraving published in Harper`s Weekly in 1865. During the American Civil War (1861–65), McPhersonville was a Confederate stronghold. Early in the Carolinas Campaign, Union forces ....