1st South Carolina Artillery

Regimental History and Service Record

• Battery A also referred to as:
  • Calhoun's (South Carolina) Artillery Battery
  • Preston's (South Carolina) Artillery Battery
  • Sumter (South Carolina) Artillery Battery

• March 25, 1862 - Organized with nine companies by the change of designation of the 1st South Carolina Artillery Battalion
• ? - Mustered in Confederate Service
• April 12, 1862 - Company K assigned from 1st South Carolina Infantry / (I) Company G
• Company A [Sumter Battery] served as light artillery
• June 16, 1862 - Secessionville
• August-September 1863 - Charleston Harbor
• February-April 1865 - The Carolinas Campaign
  • May 3, 1864 - Armed with four 12 lb Napoleons
  • Rest of regiment served as heavy artillery/infantry
• April 26, 1865 - Surrendered by General Joseph E. Johnston at Durham Station, Orange County, North Carolina

DESIGNATIONS

• Department of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida (March-May 1862)
• Department of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida / 2nd Military District of South Carolina (May-June 1862)
• Department of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida / James Island [Company A] (May-June 1862)
• Department of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida / 1st Military District of South Carolina [Company A] (June-July 1862)
• Department of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida / 1st Military District of South Carolina (June 1862-July 1863)
• Department of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida / 1st Military District of South Carolina / 4th Sub-Division (July-September 1863)
• Department of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida / 1st Military District of South Carolina / 1st Sub-Division [Company A] (July-September 1863)
• Department of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida / 1st Military District of South Carolina / 3rd Sub-Division [Company C] (July-August 1863)
• Department of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida / 1st Military District of South Carolina / 1st Sub-Division (September 1863)
• Department of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida / 7th Military District of South Carolina / Eastern Division / Light Artillery [Company A] (September-November 1863)
• Department of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida / 5th Military District of South Carolina (October 1863-July 1864)
• Department of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida / 7th Military District of South Carolina / 1st Sub-District / Hagood's Brigade [5 companies] (December 1863-February 1864)
• Department of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida / 7th Military District of South Carolina [4 companies] (April-July 1864)
• Department of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida / Ripley's Brigade (July-December 1864)
• Department of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida / Taliaferro's Brigade [detachment] (July-December 1864)
• Department of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida / Taliaferro's/Jones'/Taliaferro's Division / Rhett's Brigade [detachment] (December 1864-February 1865)
• Department of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida / Taliaferro's Division / Elliot's Brigade [3 companies] (January-February 1865)
• Hardee's Corps / Taliaferro's Division / Rhett's Brigade [3 companies] (February-April 1865)
• Hardee's Corps / Taliaferro's Division / Elliot's Brigade [3 companies] (February-March 1865)
• Army of Tennessee / 3rd Corps / Taliaferro's/Anderson's Division / Rhett's Butler's Brigade (April 1865)

Regimental Roster

• First Commander: William R. Calhoun (Colonel)
• Ormsby Blanding (Major)
• Alfred Rhett (Major, Lieutenant Colonel, Colonel)
• Thomas M. Wagner (Lieutenant Colonel)
• Joseph A. Yates (Major, Lieutenant Colonel)

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Legacy

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Sources

• Sifakis, Stewart. Compendium of the Confederate Armies. South Carolina and Georgia. New York: Facts on File, 1992. Print. (Pages 5-6, 14, 34, 52)