8th South Carolina Infantry

Regimental History and Service Record

• April 12-14, 1861 - Fort Sumter
• April 13, 1861 - Organized
  • ? - Mustered into Confederate service
• June 16, 1861 - Secessionville
• May 14, 1862 - Reorganized for the war
• June 21, 1861 - Battle of Bull Run, Virginia
• April-May 1862 - Siege of Yorktown
• May 4, 1862 - Skirmish at Williamsburg
• June 25-July 1, 1862 - The Seven Days Battles before Richmond, Virginia
  • June 29, 1862 - Savage's Station
  • July 1, 1862 - Malvern Hill
• September 12-15, 1862 - Harpers Ferry
• September 14, 1862 - South Mountain
• September 17, 1862 - Battle of Antietam, Maryland
• December 13, 1862 - Fredericksburg
• May 1-4, 1863 - Battle of Chancellorsville, Virginia
• June 1-3, 1863 - Battle of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
• September 19-20, 1863 - Battle of Chickamauga, Georgia
• September-November 1863 - Siege of Chattanooga
• November 16, 1863 - Campbell's Station
• November-December 1863 - Siege of Knoxville
• November 29, 1863 - Fort Sanders
• December 15, 1863 - Bean's Station
• May 5-6, 1864 - The Wilderness
• May 8-21, 1864 - Battles of Spotsylvania Court House, Virginia
• May 23-26, 1864 - North Anna River
• June 1-3, 1864 - Cold Harbor
• June 1864-April 1865 - Siege of Petersburg
• August 1864 - Berryville
• October 7, 1864 - near Port Republic
• October 14, 1864 - near Strasburg
• October 19, 1864 - Cedar Creek
• February-April 1865 - The Carolinas Campaign
• March 16, 1865 - Averasboro
• March 19-21, 1865 - Bentonville
• April 9, 1865 - Consolidated at Smithfield, Johnston County, North Carolina with the following units:
  • 3rd South Carolina Infantry
  • 3rd South Carolina Infantry Battalion
  • 1st South Carolina (Reserve) Infantry Battalion
  • 2nd South Carolina (Reserve) Infantry Battalion
  • 6th South Carolina (Reserve) Infantry Battalion
  • 7th South Carolina (Reserve) Infantry Battalion
  • Re-designated 3rd (Consolidated) South Carolina Infantry

DESIGNATIONS

• Department of Alexandria / Bonham's Brigade (June 1861)
• Army of the Potomac / Bonham's Brigade (June-July 1861)
• Army of the Potomac / 1st Corps / Bonham's Brigade (July-October 1861)
• Army of the Potomac / 1st Corps / 3rd Division / Bonham's Brigade (October 1861)
• Department of Northern Virginia / Potomac District / 1st Corps / 3rd Division / Bonham's Brigade (October-November 1861)
• Department of Northern Virginia / Potomac District / 1st Corps / Van Dorn's/Early's Division / Bonham's/Kershaw's Brigade (November 1861-January 1862)
• Department of Northern Virginia / Potomac District / Early's Division / Kershaw's Brigade (January-March 1862)
• Department of the Peninsula / Kershaw's Brigade (March-April 1862)
• Army of Northern Virginia / Magruder's Command / McLaws' Division / Kershaw's Brigade (April 1862-July 1863)
• Army of Northern Virginia / 1st Corps / McLaws' Division / Kershaw's Brigade (July-September 1863)
• Army of Tennessee / Longstreet's Corps / McLaw's Division / Kershaw's Brigade (September-November 1863)
• Department of East Tennessee / McLaw's/Kershaw's Division / Kershaw's Brigade (November 1863-April 1864)
• Army of Northern Virginia / 1st Corps / Kershaw's Division / Kershaw's Brigade (April-August 1864)
• Department of Northern Virginia / Valley District / Kershaw's Division / Kershaw's/Connor's Brigade (August-September 1864)
• Kershaw's Division / Kershaw's/Connor's Brigade (returning to the Petersburg lines but recalled) (September 1864)
• Department of Northern Virginia / Valley District / Kershaw's Division / Connor's Brigade (September-October 1864)
• Army of Northern Virginia / 1st Corps / Kershaw's Division / Connor's/Kennedy's Brigade (November 1864-January 1865)
• Department of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida / McLaws' Division / Kennedy's Brigade (January-February 1865)
• Hardee's Corps / McLaws'/Walthall's Division / Kennedy's Brigade (February-April 1865)

Regimental Roster

• First Commander: Ellerbee B.C. Cash (Colonel)
• John W. Henagan (Lieutenant Colonel, Colonel)
• Axalla J. Hoole (Lieutenant Colonel)
• Thomas E. Lucas (Major)
• Donald McLeod (Major)
• Eli T. Stackhouse (Major)

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Legacy

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Sources

• Dickert, D. Augustus, History of Kershaw's Brigade, With Complete Roll of Companies, Biographical Sketches, Incidents, Anecdotes, etc.
• Sifakis, Stewart. Compendium of the Confederate Armies. South Carolina and Georgia. New York: Facts on File, 1992. Print. (Pages 62, 78-80)