List of South Carolina Confederate Civil War units

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This is a list of South Carolina Confederate Civil War units. The list of South Carolina Union Civil War units is shown separately.

Infantry

1st Infantry, 6 months, 1861
1st (Butler's) Infantry (Regular)
1st (Hagood's) Infantry
1st (McCreary's) Infantry (1st Provisional Army)
1st (Orr's) Rifles
2nd Infantry (2nd Palmetto Regiment)
3rd Infantry
4th Infantry
5th Infantry
6th Infantry
7th Infantry
8th Infantry
9th Infantry
10th Infantry
11th Infantry (9th Volunteers)
12th Infantry
13th Infantry
14th Infantry
15th Infantry
16th Infantry (16th-24th Consolidated Infantry)
16th Infantry (Greenville Regiment)
17th Infantry
18th Infantry
19th Infantry
20th Infantry
21st Infantry
22nd Infantry
23rd Infantry (Hatch's Regiment, Coast Rangers)
24th Infantry (Gist's Brigade, Colleton Guard)
25th Infantry (Eutaw Regiment)
26th Infantry
27th Infantry (Gaillard's Regiment)
1st (Charleston) Battalion, Infantry (Gaillard's Battalion)
3rd (Lawren's and James') Battalion, Infantry
6th (Byrd's) Battalion, Infantry
7th (Nelson's) Battalion, Infantry (Enfield Rifles)
9th Battalion, Infantry (Pee Dee Legion)
13th Battalion, Infantry (4th and Mattison's)
15th Battalion, Infantry
South Carolina (Walker's) Battalion, Infantry

Sharpshooters

1st Battalion, Sharpshooters
2nd Battalion, Sharpshooters
Palmetto (1st Palmetto) Sharp Shooters (Jenkins Regiment)

Cavalry

1st Cavalry
2nd Regiment South Carolina Cavalry
3rd Cavalry
4th Regiment South Carolina Cavalry
5th Cavalry
6th Regiment South Carolina Cavalry (nickname: Dixie Rangers, 1st Reg. SC Partisan Rangers, Aiken's Partisan Rangers)
7th Cavalry
4th Battalion, Cavalry
10th Battalion, Cavalry
12th Battalion, Cavalry (4th Squadron Cavalry)
14th Battalion, Cavalry
17th (6th) Battalion, Cavalry
19th Battalion, Cavalry
Tucker's Company, Cavalry
Walpole's Company, Cavalry (Stono Scouts)
Percival's Company (Aiken) Mounted Infantry

Artillery

Light Artillery

1st Artillery
2nd Artillery
3rd (Palmetto) Battalion, Light Artillery
Beauregard's Company, Light Artillery (Ferguson's Company, Light Artillery)
Child's Company, Artillery
Garden's Company, Light Artillery (Palmetto Light Artillery)
Lee's Company, Artillery
Manigault's Battalion, Artillery
Wagener's Company, Light Artillery (Company A, German Artillery)
Melchers' Company, Artillery (Company B, German Artillery)
Beaufort Volunteer Artillery
Brooks Light Artillery
Chesterfield Artillery
German Light Artillery
Lafayette Artillery
Macbeth Light Artillery
McQueen Light Artillery
Marion Artillery
Pee Dee Artillery
Santee Light Artillery
Palmetto Light Battery
Waccamaw Light Artillery
Washington Artillery

Heavy Artillery

15th (Lucas') Battalion, Heavy Artillery
Gilchrist's Company, Heavy Artillery (Gist Guard)
Mathewes' Company, Heavy Artillery

Legions

Hampton's Legion
- Infantry Battalion
- Cavalry Battalion (2nd Cavalry Regiment)
  - Edgefield Hussars (Company A)
- Hart's (Halsey's) Company, Horse Artillery (Washington Artillery)
Holcombe Legion

Others

1st Regiment Charleston Guard
Battalion State Cadets, Local Defense Troops Charleston
Charleston Arsenal Battalion
Conscripts, South Carolina
2nd Rifles
Cordes' Company, Cavalry (North Santee Mounted Rifles)
De Saussure's Squadron of Cavalry
Earle's Cavalry
Estill's Company, Infantry, Local Defense (Arsenal Guard, Charleston)
Hamilton's Company, Provost Guard
Kirk's Company, Partisan Rangers
Miscellaneous, South Carolina
Ordnance Guards (Dotterer)
Rhett's Company (Brooks Home Guards)
Senn's Company, Post Guard
Shiver's Company
Simon's Company
Simon's Company, Volunteers (Etiwan Rangers)
Manigault's Battalion, Volunteers
Symons' Company, Sea Fencibles
Trenholm's Company, Rutledge Mounted Riflemen and Horse Artillery
South Carolina College Cadets
Palmetto Battalion
Charleston Battalion
Washington Light Infantry

Militia

1st Regiment Rifles, Militia (Branch's Rifle Regiment)
1st Regiment, Militia (Charleston Reserves)
5th Militia
16th Regiment, Militia
17th Regiment, Militia
18th Regiment, Militia
24th Militia
25th Militia
Charbonnier's Company, Militia (Pickens Rifles)
Trenholm's Company, Militia (Rutledge Mounted Riflemen)
1st (Martin's) Mounted Militia
4th Regiment, Cavalry Militia
Cordes' Company, Cavalry Militia (German Hussars)
Rutledge's Company, Cavalry Militia (Charleston Light Dragoons)
1st Regiment Artillery, Militia

State Troops

1st State Troops, 6 months, 1863–64
2nd State Troops 6 months, 1863–64
3rd State Troops, 6 months, 1863–64
4th State Troops, 6 months, 1863–64
5th State Troops, 6 months, 1863–64
Rodgers' Company, Cavalry (State Troops)

Reserves

2nd Reserves, 90 days, 1862–63
3rd Reserves, 90 days, 1862–63
5th Reserves, 90 days, 1862–63
6th Reserves, 90 days, 1862–63
7th Reserves, 90 days, 1862–63
8th Reserves
9th Reserves, 90 days, 1862–63
11th Reserves 90 days, 1862–63
3rd Battalion Reserves
4th Battalion, Reserves
5th (Brown's) Battalion, Reserves
6th (Merriwether's) Battalion, Reserves
7th (Ward's) Battalion, State Reserves
8th (Stalling's) Battalion, Reserves
2nd Battalion, Cavalry Reserves

See also

References

"The Civil War in South Carolina". researchonline.net. Retrieved 2009-08-25.
"Confederate Regimental Index". The Civil War Archive. Retrieved 2009-08-25.
Crute, Joseph H. Units of the Confederate States Army. Midlothian, VA.: Derwent Books, 1987. ISBN 978-0-942211-53-5.
Estes, Claud. List of Field Officers, Regiments and Battalions in the Confederate States Army, 1861-1865. Macon, Georgia: The J. W. Burke Company, 1912. OCLC 1728286
Jones, Jr., Charles C. General Officers, Heads Of Departments, Senators, Representatives, Military Organizations, &c,, &c., In Confederate Service During The War Between The States. Richmond, VA: Southern Historical Society, 1876. OCLC 2050210. pp. 91-95. Retrieved May 14, 2016.
United States National Park Service. Louisiana Civil War Units. Retrieved May 14, 2016.

External links

Confederate Financier Praises Palemtto Riflemen, 1861 Shapell Manuscript Foundation

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