South Carolina Reserve Units
| SC Unit Identifier | Name | Rank |
| 1861 - 1865 | ||
| 1st Reserves | ||
| Cadets of the South Carolina Military Academy | James Benjamin White | Superintendant |
| Stono Scouts (Mounted Militia) | John B. Walpole | Captain |
| 1861 - 1862 | ||
| 1st Mounted Militia Regiment | William Edward Martin | Colonel |
| Jun 1862 - Jan 1863 | ||
| 1st Reserves | ||
| 2nd Reserves | Ellerbe B. C. Cash | Colonel |
| 3rd Reserves | Charles James Elford | Colonel |
| Stephen Stephen Crittenden | Lieutenant-Colonel | |
| Daniel Grice | Major | |
| 4th Reserves | Colonel J. B. E. Sloan | Colonel |
| R. A. Maxwell | Lieutenant-Colonel | |
| J. W. Norris | Major | |
| 5th Reserves | Thomas Glascock Bacon | Colonel |
| Daniel Grice | Lieutenant-Colonel | |
| James Benjamin Griffin | Lieutenant-Colonel | |
| Edward E. Noble | Major | |
| 6th Reserves | Andrew Jackson Secrest | Colonel |
| James Nelson Shedd | Lieutenant-Colonel | |
| Daniel Williams | Major | |
| 7th Reserves | William Blackburn Wilson | Colonel |
| J. B. Tolleson | Lieutenant-Colonel | |
| William Sartor McJunkin | Major | |
| 8th Reserves | James (John) Henderson Witherspoon | Colonel |
| William M. Shannon | Lieutenant-Colonel | |
| Thomas Taylor | Major | |
| 9th Reserves | James Henderson Williams | Colonel |
| Anthony Cook Fuller | Lieutenant-Colonel | |
| John W. Arnold | Major | |
| 10th Reserves | James M. Baxter | Colonel |
| A. G. Talley | Lieutenant-Colonel | |
| J. G. Wolf. | Major | |
| 11th Reserves | John J. Ryan | Colonel |
| William F. Hutson | Lieutenant-Colonel | |
| James L. Davis | Major | |
| Aug 1863 - Feb 1864 | ||
| 1st State Troops | Thomas B. Roberts | Colonel |
| W. Ludlow Hodges | Lieutenant-Colonel | |
| William E. Welborn | Major | |
| 2nd State Troops | William Fort | Colonel |
| G. A. Lewie | Lieutenant-Colonel | |
| Walter Quattlebaum | Major | |
| 3rd State Troops | John E. Carew | Colonel |
| R. E. (A.) Rouse | Lieutenant-Colonel | |
| J. J. Anderson | Major | |
| 4th State Troops | James (John) Henderson Witherspoon | Colonel |
| F. M. Millett | Lieutenant-Colonel | |
| John C. Evans | Major | |
| 5th State Troops | James Henderson Williams | Colonel |
| John. A. Bradley | Lieutenant-Colonel | |
| Lucien P. (G.) Sadler | Major | |
| 1864 | ||
| Charleston Reserves | Alexander H Brown | Colonel |
| Richard De Treville | Colonel | |
| Francis M. Robertson | Colonel | |
| Robert N. Gouldin | Lieutenant-Colonel | |
| J. W. A. Wardlaw | Major | |
| Senior Reserves | July 1864 - April 1865 | |
| 1st Battalion | D. Joel Ballenger | Major |
| Daniel Williams | Major | |
| 2nd Battalion | D. J. Barnette | Major |
| 3rd Battalion | William Perry Gill | Lieutenant-Colonel |
| 4th Battalion | James H. Williams | Lieutenant-Colonel |
| 5th Battalion | Thomas R. Brown | Lieutenant-Colonel |
| 6th Battalion | Robert Merriwether | Major |
| 7th Battalion | James W. Ward | Major |
| 8th Battalion | S. H. Stallings | Major |
| W. W. Hutto | Major | |
| Reserve Battalion | Fall 1864 - April 1865 | |
| Cunningham's Battalion | John Cunningham | Major |
| Junior Reserves | Nov 1864 - April 1865 | |
| 1st Regiment | James B. Griffin | Colonel |
| Benjamin Zachary Herndon | Lieutenant-Colonel | |
| S. P. Dike | Major | |
| 2nd Regiment | W. H. Duncan | Lieutenant-Colonel |
| D. H. Rice | Major | |
| 3rd Regiment | Artemas Darby Goodwin | Colonel |
| J. W. Harrington | Lieutenant-Colonel | |
| J. McIver | Major | |
| 4th Regiment | R. B. Ligon | Colonel |
| J. R. Spearman | Lieutenant-Colonel | |
| J. W. Ferguson | Major |
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