List of South Carolina Confederate Civil War units

Main article: South Carolina in the American Civil War

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

Infantry

Captain James Dugan Gist of the South Carolina Volunteers
Private Eli Franklin of Company B, 1st South Carolina Infantry Regiment
Private Amos Guise of Co. H, 3rd South Carolina Infantry Regiment
Civil War veteran Masten Roe, Co. B, 14th South Carolina Infantry, in U.C.V. uniform with medals
  • 1st Infantry, 6 months, 1861
  • 1st (Butler's) South Carolina Regulars
  • 1st (Hagood's) South Carolina Volunteers
  • 1st (McCreary's) Infantry (1st Provisional Army)
  • 1st South Carolina Rifle Regiment (1st (Orr's) Rifles)
  • 2nd Infantry (2nd Palmetto Regiment)
  • 3rd South Carolina Infantry
  • 4th South Carolina Infantry
  • 5th South Carolina Infantry
  • 6th South Carolina Infantry
  • 7th South Carolina Infantry
  • 8th South Carolina Infantry
  • 9th South Carolina Infantry
  • 10th South Carolina Infantry
  • 11th South Carolina Infantry (9th Volunteers)
  • 12th South Carolina Infantry Regiment
  • 13th South Carolina Infantry
  • 14th South Carolina Infantry
  • 15th South Carolina Infantry Regiment
  • 16th Infantry (16th-24th Consolidated Infantry)
  • 16th Infantry (Greenville Regiment)
  • 17th Infantry
  • 18th Infantry
  • 19th Infantry
  • 20th Infantry
  • 21st Infantry
  • 22nd South Carolina Infantry Regiment
  • 23rd Arkansas Infantry Regiment
  • 23rd Infantry (Hatch's Regiment, Coast Rangers)
  • 24th South Carolina Infantry Regiment (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

Cavalry

Artillery

Confederate "Palmetto Battery" near Charleston, 1863

Light Artillery

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

Heavy Artillery

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

Legions

Brothers Private Stephen D. and Private Moses M. Boynton of Co. C, Beaufort District Troop, Hampton Legion South Carolina Cavalry Battalion
    • Infantry Battalion
    • Cavalry Battalion (2nd Cavalry Regiment)
    • Hart's (Halsey's) Company, Horse Artillery (Washington Artillery)
  • Holcombe Legion
    • Infantry Battalion
    • Cavalry Battalion

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.
  • Rucker, Christopher. "Ferguson's (Beauregard's) SC Artillery Company. Farm Lake Press, 2020.
  • United States National Park Service. Louisiana Civil War Units. Retrieved May 14, 2016.