South Carolina Civil War Confederate Units

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This is a list of South Carolina Civil War Confederate Units.


  • 1st Infantry, 6 months, 1861
  • 1st (Butler's) Infantry
  • 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 and 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)
  • South Carolina (Walker's) Battalion, Infantry

Contents

[edit] Sharpshooters

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

[edit] Cavalry

  • 1st Cavalry
  • 2nd Cavalry
  • 3rd Cavalry
  • 4th Cavalry
  • 5th Cavalry
  • 6th Cavalry (also called 6th Regiment South Carolina Cavalry, 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)

[edit] Artillery

[edit] 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
  • 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

[edit] Heavy Artillery

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

[edit] Horse Artillery

  • Hart's Company, Horse Artillery, Volunteers (Washington Artillery)

[edit] Legions

[edit] Miscellaneous

  • 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

[edit] 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 (Captain) Company, Militia (Pickens Rifles)
  • Trenholm's Company, Militia (Rutledge Mounted Riflemen)
  • 1st Mounted Militia
  • 4th Regiment, Cavalry Militia
  • Cordes' Company, Cavalry Militia (German Hussars)
  • Rutledge's Company, Cavalry Militia (Charleston Light Dragoons)
  • 1st Regiment Artillery, Militia

[edit] 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)

[edit] 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

[edit] See also