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Captain James Dugan Gist of the South Carolina Volunteers Private Eli Franklin of Company B, 1st South Carolina Infantry Regiment Private Amos Guise of Co. H, 3rd South Carolina Infantry Regiment Civil War veteran Masten Roe, Co. B, 14th South Carolina Infantry, in U.C.V. uniform with medals
This is a list of American Civil War units, consisting of those established as federally organized units as well as units raised by individual states and territories. Many states had soldiers and units fighting for both the United States ( Union Army ) and the Confederate States ( Confederate States Army ).
The following is a list of Union Army regiments raised in South Carolina during the American Civil War.Only African-American units were raised in the state. Four complete regiments were organized and mustered into service; Union authorities planned to raise a fifth regiment but instead transferred the recruits to the other regiments.
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Pages in category "Units and formations of the Confederate States Army from South Carolina" The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
List of South Carolina Union Civil War units; 0–9. 5th South Carolina Volunteer Infantry Regiment (Colored) 21st United States Colored Infantry Regiment;
On St. Helena Island, South Carolina other units of the 1st South Carolina were disbanded in August of 1862 (except for Trowbridge’s company on St. Simons) under orders from President Abraham Lincoln's administration because Hunter was not authorized by the U.S. War Department to recruit contraband (free Blacks) into the army, and the ...
South Carolina was the first state to secede from the Union in December 1860, and was one of the founding member states of the Confederacy in February 1861. The bombardment of the beleaguered U.S. garrison at Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor on April 12, 1861, is generally recognized as the first military engagement of the war.