Confederate Regiments & Batteries > South Carolina
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1861
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| Spring | Organized at Columbia under Colonel Thomas G. Bacon, Lieutenant Colonel Robert A. Fair, Major Emmet Seibels, and Adjutant David Wyatt Aiken
Company A. Captain W. W, Perryman |
| June | Moved to Virginia |
| Assigned to Bonham’s Brigade | |
| July 21 |
First Manassas |
| Assigned to Toombs’ Brigade | |
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1862
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| Winter | Major Seibels and Captain Elbert Bland fought a duel over a game of chess. |
| May 14 | During the regimental reorganization Colonel Bacon declined reelection and returned home due to failing health. Adjutant David W. Aiken was elected Colonel, Elbert Bland lieutenant colonel and William C. White major. The regiment mustered 581 effectives. |
| May | Attached to Kershaw’s Brigade, McLaws’ Division |
| June 29 |
Savage’s StationThe regiment lost 82 casualties. Lt. Colonel Bland was wounded. |
| July 1 |
Malvern HillThe regiment lost 40 casualties |
| August 29-30 |
Second Battle of Manassas |
| September 1 | Ox Hill |
| September 13 |
Maryland Heights (Harpers Ferry)The regiment lost 14 killed and 100 wounded out of 446 men engaged |
| September 17 |
SharpsburgThe regiment lost 23 killed, 117 wounded of the 268 men engaged. Colonel Aiken was wounded and captured. Major White briefly took command before he was killed. Captain John S. Hard took command of the regiment, and would be promoted to major the next day. |
| September 22 | At Opequon Creek |
| November | Attached to Kershaw’s Brigade, McLaws’ Division, First Army Corps |
| December 13 |
FredericksburgThe regiment lost 4 killed, 57 wounded and 61 missing. Lt. Colonel Bland was wounded. |
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1863
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| May 5 |
Battle of Chancellorsville |
| June | Colonel Aiken returned from recovering from his Sharpsburg wound. |
| July 1-3 |
Battle of GettysburgThe regiment was commanded by Colonel Aiken and brought 408 men to the field in 12 companies. It lost 24 men killed, 79 wounded, and 7 missing or captured in fighting on the Rose Farm south of Gettysburg. Lt. Colonel Elbert Bland was wounded in the thigh on July 2nd but refused to leave the field. Lieutenant William L. Daniel was killed. Lieutenants James Daniel and Albert T. Taylor were mortally wounded, Lieutenant Sherod W. Callaham was mortally wounded and captured, Captain William Z. Leitner was wounded and 1st Lieutenant Augustus Burt was wounded and captured. |
| July 14 | Falling Waters |
| July | Colonel Aiken was unable to continue in service in the field due to his wound and was appointed commander of Macon, Georgia |
| September | Transferred to the west with Longstreet |
| September 19-20 |
Battle of ChickamaugaLt. Colonel Bland was killed. Major Hard briefly took over before he was also killed on top of Pea Ridge, the youngest field officer in the brigade at age 20. |
| November |
Knoxville Campaign |
| November 16 |
Campbell’s Station |
| November 30 |
Fort Sanders |
| December 15 |
Beane’s Station |
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1864
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| March | Returned with Longstreet to the Army of Northern Virginia |
| May 5-7 |
Battle of The WIldernessCommanded by Captain James Mitchell |
| May 8-20 |
Battle of Spotsylvania |
| May 23-26 |
North Anna |
| June 1-3 |
Second Cold Harbor |
| September |
Shenandoah Valley Campaign |
| September 3 | Berryville |
| October 7 | Port Republic |
| October 14 | Strasburg |
| October 19 |
Battle of Cedar Creek |
| Late October | Returned to Richmond defenses |
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1865
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| January | Transferred to North Carolina |
| February |
Carolinas Campaign |
| March 16 |
Battle of Averasborough |
| March 19 |
Battle of BentonvilleThe regiment lost 2 killed and 12 wounded |
| March 23 | The regiment mustered 222 men |
| April 26 | Surrendered with the Army of Tennessee |