CONFEDERATE SOUTH CAROLINA TROOPS
5th Regiment, South Carolina Infantry
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5th Infantry Regiment, assembled during March and April, 1861, contained men recruited
in Laruens, Lancaster, Spartanburg, and Union counties. It was ordered to Virginia and, serving
in D.R. Jones' Brigade, saw action at First Manassas. Later it was placed in
General R.H. Anderson's, M. Jenkins', and Bratton's Brigade. It participated in the campaigns of
the army from Williamsburg to
Fredericksburg, then served in
Longstreet's Suffolk operations and with D.H. Hill in North Carolina. Moving again with
Longstreet, the unit did not arrive in time to take part in the Battle of Chickamauga, but was
engaged at Knoxville. Returning to Virginia, it was conspicuous at The Wilderness, Spotsylvania, and Cold Harbor, in the trenches of Petersburg, and around Appomattox. This regiment reported 3
killed and 23 wounded at First Manassas and totalled 650 men in April, 1862. It sustained 21
casualties at Williamsburg, 81 at Gaines' Mill, 73 at Frayser's Farm, 39
during the Maryland Campaign, and 102 at Wauhatchie. In 1864 it lost 18 killed, 95 wounded,
and 16 missing during The Wilderness Campaign, and from June 13 to December 31, there were
11 killed and 65 wounded. On April 9, 1865, the unit surrendered 19 officers and 263 men. The
field officers were Colonels A. Coward, John R.R. Giles, and Micah Jenkins; Lieutenant Colonels
Andrew Jackson, G.W.H. Legg, and John D. Wylie; and Majors Thomas C. Beckham, William M.
Foster, and William T. Thomson.
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