CONFEDERATE SOUTH CAROLINA TROOPS
10th Regiment, South Carolina Infantry
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10th Infantry Regiment was organized at Camp Marion, near Georgetown, South Carolina,
in July, 1861. Its members were raised in the counties of Georgetown, Horry, Williamsburg,
Marion, and Charleston. The regiment moved to Cat Island where many of the men suffered from
typhoid fever, measels, and mumps. In March, 1862, it was sent to Mississippi, then in the
Kentucky Campaign it was involved in the capture of Munfordsville. During the war it was
assigned to General Manigault's and Sharp's Brigade and from September, 1863 to April, 1864,
was consolidated with the 19th Regiment. The unit served with the Army of Tennessee from Murfreesboro to Atlanta, endured Hood's winter campaign
in Tennessee, and saw action in North Carolina. It lost 16 killed, 91 wounded, and 2 missing at
Murfreesboro, and the 10th/19th had 236 killed or wounded at Chickamauga and totalled 436
men and 293 arms in December, 1863. During the Atlanta Campaign, July 20-28, the 10th
Regiment lost 19 of 24 officers engaged and surrendered on April 26, 1865, with no officers and
55 men. The field officers were Colonels Arthur M. Manigault and James F. Pressley, Lieutenant
Colonels Julius T. Porcher and C. Irvine Walker,and Major A.J. Shaw.
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