CONFEDERATE SOUTH CAROLINA TROOPS
1st Regiment, South Carolina Infantry (Hagood's)
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1st Regiment Volunteers completed its organization at Barnwell, South Carolina, in
December, 1860, and entered Confederate service in April, 1861. Its companies were raised in
Charleston and the counties of Orangeburg, Lancaster, Barnwell, Greenville, Colleton, and
Richland. The regiment served in the Department of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, then
moved to Virginia and brigaded under Generals Jenkins abd Bratton. It fought at South Mountain, Sharpsburg, and Fredericksburg, and later served under
Longstreet at Suffolk and D.H. Hill in North Carolina. Again it was with Longstreet, but the unit
did not take part in the conflict at Chickamauga. After fighting in the Knoxville operations the
unit participated in the battles at The
Wilderness, Spotsylvania,
and Cold Harbor, the Petersburg siege, and the Appomattox Campaign. It reported 16
casualties at South Mountain, 40
at Sharpsburg, 1 at Fredericksburg, and 45 at Wauhatchie. Of the 169 engaged at Spotsylvania, thirteen percent were
disabled, and from June 13 to December 31, 1864, there were 17 killed, 89 wounded, and 17
missing. It surrendered 21 officers and 201 men. The field officers were Colonels W.H. Duncan,
Thomas J. Glover, James R. Hagood, Johnson Hagood, and Franklin W. Kilpatrick; Lieutenant
Colonels Benjamin B. Kirkland and Daniel Livingston; and Majors George M. Grimes and
Watson A. O'Cain.
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