Gaines’ Mill

The regiment lost 17 men killed and 121 wounded. Colonel Barnes and Captain Bookter were wounded

Second Battle of Manassas (Bull Run)

The regiment lost 146 men out of 270 effectives. Colonel Barnes, Major W.H. McCorkle and Captain Bookter were wounded

Battle of Ox Hill (Chantilly)

Battle of Sharpsburg (Antietam)

The regiment lost 20 men killed and 82 wounded. Colonel Barnes was mortally wounded (he would die on September 27) and Major W.H. McCorkle took command. Captain Davis was wounded.

From the brigade marker on the Antietam battlefield:

Gregg’s Brigade formed line about 3 P.M. in the fields southwest of this and advanced into the southwest corner of the 40 acre cornfield, about 100 yards east of this point, where it encountered and repulsed the advance of the extreme left of the Ninth Corps. An effort to pursue into the field beyond was checked, and the Brigade fell back to the line now marked by this road, where it remained until the early morning of the 19th, when it retired to Blackford’s Ford and was the last Infantry Brigade of the Confederate Army to recross the Potomac.

Battle of Shepherdstown

Castleman’s Ferry

Colonel Cad Jones in command

Battle of Fredericksburg

General Gregg was mortally wounded. Colonel Abner Perrin took over brigade command.

Battle of Gettysburg

The 13th South Carolina was commanded at Gettysburg by Colonel Miller. The regiment lost 26 killed, 105 wounded, and 4 missing out of the 366 men engaged.

From the monument to Perrin’s Brigade on the Gettysburg Battlefield:

July 1. Crossed Willoughby Run about 3.30 P. M. with its left in Reynolds Woods and advancing relieved Heth’s line. Took a prominent part in the struggle by which the Union forces were dislodged from Seminary Ridge and pursuing them into town captured many prisoners. The Rifle Regiment was on duty as train guard and not in the battle of this day.

July 2. Supported artillery south of Fairfield Road. At 6 P. M. advanced a battalion of Sharpshooters which skirmished with Union outposts until dark. At 10 P. M. took position on Ramseur’s right in the Long Lane leading from the town to the Bliss House and Barn.

July 3. In the same position and constantly engaged in skirmishing.

July 4. After night withdrew and began the march to Hagerstown.

Battle of The WIlderness

The regiment lost 102 men. Colonel Miller was mortally wounded in the bowels on May 5 and would die the next day, and Lieutenant Colonel Bookter was wounded. Major Thomas Clyburn took command of the regiment and was promoted to lieutenant colonel on May 6.

After the battle Lieutenant Colonel Edwin Bookter was promotetd to colonel.

The Battle of Spotsylvania Court House

The regiment lost 118 men.

From the monument to McGowan’s South Carolina Brigade at the Bloody Angle:

The Bloody Angle

In the rainy gloom of May 12, 1864, Brigadier General Samuel McGowan’s brigade of South Carolinians battled their way into the disputed earthworks here, near the apex of the Muleshoe Salient. For eighteen hours the 1,300 South Carolinians defended these works against relentless attacks by thousands of Federals, sometimes engaging in hand-to-hand fighting. By battle’s end, 451 men of the brigade were killed, wounded, or missing. The slight angle in the works they defended would forever be known as the Bloody Angle.

Battle of North Anna

Jericho Ford

Major Thomas F. Clyburn was badly wounded, and Captain R.M. Kerr took command

Battle of Cold Harbor

Deep Bottom

Fussell’s Mill-Deep Bottom Run-Strawberry Plains

The regiment lost 18 men at Deep Bottom and 26 at Fussel’s Mill

Petersburg

Jones Farm (Squirrel Level Road, Poplar Springs Church)

Colonel Edwin F. Bookter was killed. Lt. Colonel T. Frank Clyburn took command. The regiment lost 23 men.

Pegram’s Farm

Gravelly Run

Captain R.M. Kerr commanding

Battle of Five Forks

Dinwiddie Courthouse

Captain R.M. Kerr was captured

Appomattox Court House

The regiment surrendered 10 officers and 149 men under Captain J.C. Bell