Confederate Regiments & Batteries > South Carolina
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1861
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| March | Organized at Marion under Colonel Ellerbe Boggan Crawford Cash, Lieutenant Colonel John W. Henagan, Major Thomas E. Lucas and Adjutant C.B. Weatherly
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| April 14 | Reached Charleston Harbor after the fall of Fort Sumter |
| June 20 | Sent to Virginia and assigned to Bonham’s Brigade at Manassas |
| July 21 |
Battle of ManassasThe regiment lost 5 men killed and 3 officers and 29 enlisted men wounded |
| July-October | Assigned to Bonham’s Brigade, 1st Corps, Army of the Potomac |
| October-November | Assigned to Bonham’s Brigade, 3rd Division, 1st Corps, Potomac District, Department of Northern Virginia |
| November-January | Assigned to Bonham’s Brigade, Van Dorn’s Division, 1st Corps, Potomac District, Department of Northern Virginia |
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1862
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| January | General Bonham resigned to enter Congress. The Brigade command was taken over by Brigadier General J. B. Kershaw. |
| January-March | Assigned to Kershaw’s Brigade, Early’s Division, Potomac District, Department of Northern Virginia |
| May 4-5 |
Battle of Williamsburg |
| May 14 | At the reorganization of the regiment it mustered 276 men in 12 companies, Companies L and M having been added. Colonel Cash was dropped. Lieutenant Colonel Henagan was elected colonel and Captain Axalla J. Hoole of Company A was elected lieutenant colonel. |
| June 29 |
Savage Station |
| June 30 |
Frayser’s Farm |
| July 1 |
Malvern HillThe regiment lost 7 men killed, 36 wounded and 9 missing. Captain J.H. Muldrow was killed. |
| September 13 |
Maryland Heights (Harpers Ferry)The regiment attacked and captured the Union position on Maryland Heights that was the key to the Harpers Ferry defences. It lost 6 killed and 28 wounded out of 126 engaged. Colonel Henegan was wounded after having taken the colors from the wounded Captain A.T. Harlee to lead the charge, but remained on the field to rally the regiment and order the successful attack upon the Union works. Lieutenant Colonel Hoole took command after Colonel Henegan finally left the field. |
| September 17 |
Battle of Sharpsburg (Antietam)Lieutenant Colonel A.J. Hoole commanded the regiment, which lost 1 killed, 17 wounded and 4 missing out of 71 men engaged. Captain T. E. Howle was killed. September 17, 1862 Kershaw’s Brigade crossed the Potomac at Blackford’s Ford about daybreak of the 17th and halted in the western suburbs of Sharpsburg until nearly 9 A.M., when it crossed the fields and took position in the open ground southwest of the Dunkard Church from which, supported by Walker’s Division and Early’s Brigade, it moved to the attack of the 34th New York Infantry of Sedgwick’s Division, Second Corps, and the 125th Pennsylvania of the Twelfth Corps, just west of the church, causing them to retire. Efforts to drive Greene’s Division and the Federal Artillery from the ridge east of the Hagerstown Pike were repulsed and the Brigade fell back beyond the western limits of the West Woods. Later in the day it moved to the northern part of the West Woods, where it remained until the night of the 18th, when it was withdrawn and recrossed the Potomac. From the second of the two tablets:About 9:45 A.M., the 2d, 7th and 8th South Carolina of Kershaw’s Brigade charged out of the woods and across this road upon Tompkins’ Rhode Island Battery on the ridge about 220 yards east of this. The charge was repulsed by the Battery and Greene’s Division of Infantry, and the Brigade fell back beyond the western limits of the West Woods. Nearly one half of the officers and men of the Brigade were killed and wounded in less than fifteen minutes. This tablet marks where the center of the Brigade crossed the road, its left reached nearly to the church. |
| September 22 | At Opequon Creek |
| December 13 |
FredericksburgThe regiment lost 2 killed and 29 wounded, including Captain Duncan McIntyre wounded. |
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1863
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| May 5 |
Battle of ChancellorsvilleColonel Henagan returned to the regiment. |
| July 1-3 |
Battle of GettysburgCommanded by Colonel John Henagan, the regiment brought 300 men to the field. The regiment lost 26 men killed and 74 wounded in fighting around the Rose farm on July 2. Lieutenant Colonel D.M. McLeod and Captain Thomas E. Powe were mortally wounded and Capt. John K. McIver was mortally wounded and later captured at Williamsport. |
| July 5 | Captain Eli T. Stackhouse of Company I was promoted to major. |
| September | Transferred west with Longstreet’s Corps |
| September 19-20 |
Battle of ChickamaugaLieutenant Colonel Hoole was killed. Major Stackhouse was promoted to lieutenant colonel. |
| November 16 |
Campbell’s Station |
| November-December |
Knoxville Campaign |
| November 29 |
Fort Sanders |
| December 14 | Bean’s Station |
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1864
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| March | Returned to Virginia |
| May 5-7 |
Battle of The WIldernessThe regimnt was commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Eli Stackhouse |
| May 8-20 |
Battle of Spotsylvania Court House |
| May 23-26 |
North Anna |
| June 1-3 |
Second Battle of Cold Harbor |
| July |
Siege of PetersburgLieutenant Colonel E.T. Stackhouse was wounded in the chest. |
| July 27-29 |
Deep BottomCaptain McIntyre was wounded for the second time |
| August |
Petersburg |
| August-December | Shenandoah Campaign |
| September 3 |
Berryville |
| September 14 | A large part of the regiment, including its colors, was surrounded and captured by the 1st Connecticut Cavalry near Winchester. Colonel Henegan was captured and eventually died in prison at Johnston’s Island, Ohio. Lieutenant Colonel Stackhouse took command of the survivors of the regiment. |
| 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 Bentonville |
| March 23 | The regiment had 52 men present for duty |
| April 26 | Surrendered with the Army of Tennessee |