South Carolina State Troop Regiments
Seed Corn Units
Junior Reserves
1864-1865

  Mustered into State Service November 1864

1st Regiment
  Districts Represented:
    Abbevile
    Anderson
    Laurens
    Oconee
    Pickens
  Commanding Officer(s}
    Colonel James Benjamin Griffin
    Lieutenant Colonel Benjamin Zachary Herndon
    Major S. P. Dike ( Dikis )
  Rosters:
    Company A-I
  Additional Information:

2nd Regiment
  Districts Represented:
    Greenville
    Lexington
    Marion
  Commanding Officer(s}
    Lieutenant Colonel W. H. Duncan
    Major D. H. Rice
  Rosters:
    Company A-L
  Additional Information:

3rd Regiment
  Districts Represented:
    Chesterfield
    Clarendon
    Darlington
    Fairfield
    Georgetown
    Horry
    Kershaw
    Lancaster
    Marion
    Marlboro
    Newberry
    Orangeburg
    Richland
    Spartanburg
    Sumter
    Williamsburg
  Commanding Officer(s}
    Colonel Artemas Darby Goodwin
    Lieutenant Colonel J. W. Harrington
    Major J. McIver
  Rosters:
    Company A-K
  Additional Information:
    Company D - 2nd Sergeant W. Greer Albergotti
    Company F - Hampton Kendrick Snell
    Company I - Private John W. Cousart

4th Regiment
  Districts Represented:
    Anderson
    Saluda
    Union
    York
  Commanding Officer(s}
    Colonel Robert B. Ligon
    Lieutenant Colonel J. R. Spearman
    Major J. W. Ferguson
  Rosters:
    Company A-K

Note:
While I cannot be 100% sure, it appears that these 4 regiments functioned pretty much together as a brigade, unlike the 8 battalions raised earlier in the year, that seem to almost never serve together. Companies were detached, troops constantly being detached and it appears highly likely that many of the companies were absorbed into depleted SC CSA units at the end of 1864 and again in the Spring of 1865. The following has been extracted from letter of F. F. McRae.
Col. A. D. Goodwyn, as Senior Col., commanded the Brigade all the time the Command was in service. Lt. Col. J. W. Harrington took command of the {3rd] Regiment. The Brigade was composed of the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Regts. S.T. which were made up of one company from each County in the State. The 3rd Regt. was from Chesterfield, Darlington, Horry, Marion, Sumter, Clarendon, Marlboro, Williamsburg, Richland and Georgetown. The Regt. did duty at different points between Charleston and Savannah, at Honey Hill, Adams Run, Green Pond, Coosawhatchie and other points. They were in Savannah at the time Sherman entered the City. They were on James Island at the time of the evacuation of Charleston, and went from there with Hardee's Army to Raleigh, N.C., and from there were ordered back to South Carolina, disbanding finally at Spartanburg, S.C.
This is consistent with everything else I have seen.

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