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At the Peach Orchard the 2nd advanced with two other units of Kershaw's Brigade, the 3rd SC Battalion and the 8th SC Infantry, through the orchard and eventually came under strong artillery fire. Thousands of pieces of shrapnel and canister hit their lines, and the 2nd lost about 50% of their numbers when an unknown officer ordered the regiment ...
At organization the regiment consisted of 10 companies from eastern South Carolina and was part of the South Carolina State Troops. On November 4, 1775, the regiment was adopted by the Continental Army, and on February 27, 1776, it was assigned to the Southern Department. On November 23, 1776, the regiment was assigned to the 2nd South Carolina ...
Upper Saluda District Militia/ Regiment [note 2] 2nd Brigade February 1775 September 1775 Thomas Fletchall, Col [19] [20] 1st Spartan Regiment 2nd Brigade (1778–1780) February 1777 John Thomas, Sr., Col [21] 2nd Spartan Regiment 2nd Brigade (1778–1780) Col Sumter (backcountry) (1780) February 1777 Thomas Brandon, Col [22]
That means low bidders on any flag contract can make the tree look too weak or the crescent more like a moon than the cap badges of the 2nd South Carolina Regiment from the Revolutionary War on ...
Revolutionary War units: 6th Regiment of militia, 1780–1781 [8] 7th Regiment of militia, 1782 [8] Abbott's Regiment of militia, 1781 [8] Clark's Company of militia, 1778–1780 [8] Durkee's Company of militia, 1780–1781 [8] Green Mountain Boys, 1777; Herrick's Regiment, 1775–83; Hoar's Company of militia, 1780 [8] Marsh's Regiment, 1777
The reraising of the flag was commemorated on the South Carolina quarter of the America the Beautiful quarters. The flag is flown by the USS Paul Hamilton (DDG-60) to honor the ship's namesake Paul Hamilton , a South Carolinian who was a Revolutionary War soldier, the United States’ third Secretary of the Navy, and the 42nd governor of South ...
William Jasper (c. 1750 – October 9, 1779) was an American soldier in the Revolutionary War.He was a sergeant in the 2nd South Carolina Regiment.. Jasper distinguished himself in the defense of Fort Moultrie (then called Fort Sullivan) on June 28, 1776.
Col. Moultrie took command of Sullivan's Island on March 2, 1776, which included a garrison of 413 men of the 2nd South Carolina Regiment of Infantry and 22 men of the 4th South Carolina Regiment, artillery. The island included a fort, still under construction at the southern tip, which was being supervised by Capt. De Brahm.