CONFEDERATE SOUTH CAROLINA TROOPS
1st Regiment, South Carolina Rifles (Orr's)
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1st Regiment Rifles, known as Orr's Rifles, was organized at Sandy Springs, South
Carolina, in July, 1861. Its members were recruited in the counties of Abbeville, Pickens,
Anderson, and Marion. The unit was first stationed on Sullivan's Island and called by the other
troops "The Pound Cake Regiment" because of its light duty. Then in April, 1862, it moved to
Virginia with 1,000 men. Assigned to General Gregg's and McGowan's Brigade, it fought with
the army from the Seven Days' Battles to Cold Harbor. Later the regiment endured
the hardships of the Petersburg
trenches and the Appomattox
operations. Of the 537 engaged at Gaines' Mill, fifty-nine percent were killed,
wounded or missing. The unit reported 116 casualties at Second Manassas and 170 at Fredericksburg, then lost forty-nine percent
of the 233 at Chancellorsville and
three percent of the 366 at Gettysburg. There were 12 killed and 81 wounded at The Wilderness, 15 killed, 36 wounded, and
44 missing at Spotsylvania, 3
killed and 34 wounded at Deep
Bottom, and 9 killed and 37 wounded at Poplar Springs Church. It surrendered 9
officers and 148 men. The field officers were Colonels Daniel A. Ledbetter, James W. Livingston,
J. Foster Marshall, George M. Miller, James L. Orr, and James M. Perrin; Lieutenant Colonels
William M. Hadden, F.E. Harrison, Joseph J. Norton, and James T. Robertson; and Majors John
B. Moore and Leonard Rogers.
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