List of South Carolina Civil War Confederate units

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

Contents 1 Infantry 2 Sharpshooters 3 Cavalry 4 Artillery 4.1 Light Artillery 4.2 Heavy Artillery 4.3 Horse Artillery 5 Legions 6 Others 6.1 Militia 6.2 State Troops 6.3 Reserves 7 See also 8 References

Infantry

• 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

Sharpshooters

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

Cavalry

• 1st Cavalry
• 2nd 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
• Edgefield Hussars
• Tucker's Company, Cavalry
• Walpole's Company, Cavalry (Stono Scouts)
• Percival's Company (Aiken) Mounted Infantry [1]

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

Horse Artillery

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

Legions

• Hampton's Legion
• 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

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

• Lists of American Civil War Regiments by State
• Confederate Units by State

References

1. "The Civil War in South Carolina". researchonline.net. http://www.researchonline.net/sccw/scunits.htm. Retrieved 2009-08-25. 
2. "Confederate Regimental Index". The Civil War Archive. http://www.civilwararchive.com/Confedreg/confedsc.htm. Retrieved 2009-08-25.