CONFEDERATE SOUTH CAROLINA TROOPS
11th Regiment, South Carolina Infantry (9th Volunteers)
- Overview:
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11th Infantry Regiment [also called 9th Regiment] was organized during the summer of
1861 with men from Beaufort, Clarendon, and Colleton counties. The unit served in the
Charleston area, fought at Pocataligo, then was stationed at Hardeeville. It was assigned to
Hagood's Brigade, then one company was permitted to organize and equip as a light battery
(Beaufort Artillery), and the regiment served with nine companies. During the summer of 1863 it
was again active in the Charleston area but later moved to Florida and then to Virginia in the
spring of 1864. Here it fought at Drewry's Bluff and Cold Harbor and in the trenches of Petersburg. In 1865 the unit moved to
Fort Fisher and saw action at Bentonville. It lost 4 killed, 15
wounded, and 2 missing at Pocotaligo, had 14 killed, 39 wounded, and 12 missing in front of
Petersburg (May 6-9), and sustained 14 killed, 28 wounded, and 45 missing at Deep Bottom. Its
casualties were about sixty percent in the fight at Weldon Railroad, and scarcely the strength
of a company surrendered on April 26, 1865. The field officers were Colonels Daniel H. Ellis, F.
Hay Gantt, and William C. Heyward; Lieutenant Colonels Robert Campbell, Allen C. Izard, and
William Shuler; and Majors John J. Gooding, John J. Gooding, John J. Harrison, and B. Burgh
Smith.
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