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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