Hampton Legion (South Carolina) Infantry Battalion
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- June 12, 1861 - Organized with six companies
- ? - Mustered into Confederate service
- July 21, 1861 -
Battle of Bull Run, Virginia
- Spring 1862 - Reorganized
- April-May 1862 - Siege of Yorktown
- May 7, 1862 - Eltham's Landing
- May 31-June 1, 1862 - Seven Pines
- June 25-July 1, 1862 -
The Seven Days Battles before Richmond, Virginia
- June 27, 1862 - Gaines' Mill
- August 28-30, 1862 - 2nd Bull Run
- September 14, 1862 - South Mountain
- September 17, 1862 -
Battle of Antietam, Maryland
- November 11, 1862 - Two additional companies assigned from parts of the 4th South Carolina Infantry Battalion
- December 13, 1862 - Fredericksburg
- October 28-29, 1863 - Wauhatchie
- November-December 1863 - Siege of Knoxville
- March 18, 1864 - Unit mounted
- June 1864-April 1865 - Siege of Petersburg
- September 29, 1864 - New Market Heights
- September 30, 1864 - Roper's Farm
- April 6, 1865 - Sayler's Creek
- April 9, 1865 - Appomattox Court House
- Surrendered
DESIGNATIONS
- Army of the Potomac / 1st Corps / Unattached (July 1861)
- Department of Northern Virginia / Potomac District / Unattached (October 1861)
- Department of Northern Virginia / Potomac District / Forces near Dumfries (Whiting's Command) / Hampton's Brigade (January-March 1862)
- Army of Northern Virginia / Whiting's/G.W. Smith's/Whiting's Division / Hampton's Brigade (March-June 1862)
- Department of Northern Virginia / Valley District / Whiting's Division / Texas Brigade (June 1862)
- Army of Northern Virginia / 2nd Corps / Whiting's Division / Texas Brigade (June-July 1862)
- Army of Northern Virginia / Whiting's Division / Texas Brigade (July 1862)
- Army of Northern Virginia / 1st Corps / Whiting's/Hood's Division / Texas Brigade (July-November 1862)
- Army of Northern Virginia / 1st Corps / D.R. Jones'/Pickett's Division / Jenkins' Brigade (December 1862-February 1863)
- Department of North Carolina and Southern Virginia / Pickett's Division / Jenkins' Brigade (February-April 1863)
- Department of Southern Virginia / Pickett's Division / Jenkins' Brigade (April-May 1863)
- Department of Southern Virginia / Jenkins' Brigade (May 1863)
- Department of North Carolina / Jenkins' Brigade (May-July 1863)
- Department of Richmond / Jenkins' Brigade (July 1863)
- Department of Richmond / Ransom's Division / Jenkins' Brigade (July-September 1863)
- Army of Tennessee / Longstreet's Corps / Hood's Division / Jenkins' Brigade (September-November 1863)
- Department of East Tennessee / Hood's/Field's Division / Jenkins' Brigade (November 1863-March 1864)
- Department of Richmond / Cavalry (May-June 1864)
- Department of Richmond / Gary's Cavalry Brigade (June 1864-January 1865)
- Army of Northern Virginia / Cavalry Corps / F. Lee's Division / Gary's Brigade (January-April 1865)
Regimental Roster
- First Commander: Wade Hampton (III) (Colonel)
- Robert B. Arnold (Major, Lieutenant Colonel)
- James Connor (Major)
- J. Hervey Dingle (Jr.) (Major)
- Martin W. Gary (Colonel)
- James B. Griffin (Major, Lieutenant Colonel)
- Benjamin J. Johnson (Lieutenant Colonel)
- Stephen Dill Lee (Major - temporary assignment)
- Thomas M. Logan (Major, Lieutenant Colonel, Colonel)
- Benjamin E. Nicholson (Major)
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Notes
Sources
- Sifakis, Stewart. Compendium of the Confederate Armies. South Carolina and Georgia. New York: Facts on File, 1992. Print. (Pages 67, 106-108)
- Simpson, Harold B., Hood's Texas Brigade: Lee's Grenadier Guard.