List of South Carolina Confederate Civil War units explained

See 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

• 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

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

Cavalry

• 1st Regiment, South Carolina Cavalry
• 2nd Regiment South Carolina Cavalry
• 3rd Regiment, South Carolina Cavalry
• 4th Regiment South Carolina Cavalry
• 5th Regiment South Carolina Cavalry
• 6th Regiment South Carolina Cavalry (Dixie Rangers, 1st Partisan Rangers, Aiken's Partisan Rangers)
• 7th Regiment, South Carolina 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 http://www.sciway3.net/sc-reserves/ot/aiken_independent.html

Artillery

Light Artillery

• 1st Artillery
  • Brooks Light Artillery (Company B)
  • Pee Dee Artillery (Company D)
• 2nd Artillery
  • Inglis Light Artillery (Company D)
• 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

• • Infantry Battalion
  • Cavalry Battalion (2nd Cavalry Regiment)
    • Edgefield Hussars (Company A)
  • 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

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

References

• Web site: The Civil War in South Carolina . researchonline.net . 2009-08-25.
• Web site: Confederate Regimental Index . The Civil War Archive . 2009-08-25.
• Crute, Joseph H. Units of the Confederate States Army. Midlothian, VA.: Derwent Books, 1987. .
• Estes, Claud. List of Field Officers, Regiments and Battalions in the Confederate States Army, 1861-1865. Macon, Georgia: The J. W. Burke Company, 1912.
• 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. . 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.

External links

• Confederate Financier Praises Palemtto Riflemen, 1861 Shapell Manuscript Foundation