Bombardment of Fort Sumter

The regiment was stationed at the rear of Lighthouse Hills and Lighthouse Inlet on the southern end of Morris Island.

Seven Days Battles

The regiment lost 20 killed and 133 wounded during the Seven Days

Battle of Gaines’ Mill

Lieutenant Colonel Smith was killed. Captain Comillus W. McCreary promoted to major.

Frayser’s Farm

Second Battle of Manassas (Second Bull Run)

The regiment lost 53% of the 233 men engaged. Lieutenant Colonel McCrady commanded the regiment until he suffered a severe head wound.

Ox Hill (Chantilly)

Battle of South Mountain

Battle of Sharpsburg (Antietam)

The regiment was under the command of Colonel Hamilton. It lost 4 men killed and 30 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

Battle of Fredericksburg

The regiment lost 73 men.

Battle of Chancellorsville

The regiment lost 104 men. General McGowan was wounded, and Colonel Perrin took command of the brigde

Battle of Gettysburg

The regiment lost 34% of the 328 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.

Present about 1600 Killed 100 Wounded 477 Total 577

Falling Waters

Bristoe Campaign

Mine Run Campaign

Battle of The WIlderness

The regiment lost 16 killed, 114 wounded and 7 missing. Major Alston was wounded.

The Battle of Spotsylvania Court House

The regiment lost 19 killed, 51 wounded and 9 missing.

The Bloody Angle

Lieutenant Colonel Shooter was killed.

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.

Jericho Ford

Lieutenant Colonel Alston was mortally wounded. He would die on June 19.

Battle of Cold Harbor

Squirrel Level Road – Jones Farm

Colonel McCreary was wounded.

Pegram House

Colonel Comillus McCreary was wounded again.

White Oak Road

Colonel Comillus W. McCreary was killed

Battle of Five Forks

Appomattox Court House

The 1st South Carolina Infantry Regiment surrendered 18 officers and 101 men.