Confederate Battalion

3rd South Carolina Infantry Battalion

"James' Battalion"
Organized: Columbia, SC; mustered in 2/6/1862
Disbanded/Mustered out: Greensboro, NC 4/26/1865

Commanding Officers on the Sharpsburg Campaign:
  LCol. George S. James
  Maj. William G. W. Rice
  Capt. George M. Gunnels

This Battalion's Chain of Command:
  Army - Army of Northern Virginia
  Corps - Longstreet's Command
  Division - Jones' Division
  Brigade - Drayton's Brigade

Unit history

"Seven companies were assigned to the battalion. Companies A, B, C, and D were mustered into state service in late November and early December 1861 at Camp Hampton near Columbia. These four companies were composed predominantly of men from Laurens District, as was Company E mustered in in early January. By the end of January 1862, Company F (Harper Rifles), consisting of men from Lexington and Richland Districts, had enlisted. On February 6th, Company G (Aiken Guards), Fairfield District's contribution, was assigned, thus forming the battalion commanded by Lieutenant Colonel George Strother James."
(from Davis)

On the Sharpsburg Campaign

" ... the battalion would sustain its highest casualty rate of the entire war during the first Maryland Campaign at the battle of South Mountain (Fox's Gap) on September 14,1862 ... of about 250 men engaged, 132 casualties resulted from this bloody engagement. Lieutenant Colonel James was killed in action and Major Rice was severely wounded. The battalion was so disabled that that three days later its performance at Sharpsburg added little to its well-earned battle reputation overall."
(from Davis)

Part of Drayton's Brigade, they were assigned positions above the Lower Antietam Bridge at the far right of the Confederate line, near Sharpsburg town on the 17th.

Maps Showing this Unit

Detail Map #12: Burnside's Ninth Corps Climbs Toward Sharpsburg (3-4 pm)
Detail Map #13: AP Hill's Division Hits Burnside's Flank (4-5 pm)

Battlefield Tablets for this Unit

Tablet #303: Longstreet's Command - 14 Sep, 9 PM to 15 Sep, 12 PM
Tablet #322: Jones' Division, Longstreet's Command - 14 Sep, 9 PM to 16 Sep, 9 PM
Tablet #347: Drayton's Brigade, Jones' Division - 15 Sep, 11 AM to 17 Sep, 4 PM
Tablet #368: Jones' Division, Longstreet's Command - 15 Sep, 9 AM to 16 Sep, 9 PM
Tablet #369, cont: Jones' Division, Longstreet's Command - 17 Sep, 3 PM to 18 Sep, 9 PM
Tablet #321: Jones' Division, Longstreet's Command - 17 Sep, 6 AM to 17 Sep, 3 PM
Tablet #304: Longstreet's Command - 17 Sep, 7 AM to 17 Sep, 3 PM
Tablet #369: Jones' Division, Longstreet's Command - 17 Sep, 7 AM to 17 Sep, 3 PM

After the Sharpsburg Campaign

"On November 15, 1862 , the unit along with the 15th SC Regiment, was transferred to Kershaw's Brigade of which it would remain an integral part until the end of the war. The battalion participated in nearly all the battles of the Army of Northern Virginia, including Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville and Gettysburg. In September 1863 it was transferred to the Western Theatre and fought at Chickamauga and Knoxville. Returning to Virginia in the spring of 1864, engagements included the Wilderness, Spottsylvania Court House, North Anna River, Second Cold Harbor, Deep Bottom and the siege of Petersburg. Ordered to the Valley in mid-August, 1864, actions at Berryville, Strasburg, and Cedar Creek were added to its list of engagements. December found the battalion entrenched at Richmond until January 4 in the last year of the war when it was ordered south to oppose Sherman in his march through the Carolinas. Battles in North Carolina at Averasboro and Bentonville would be the last for the battalion." (from Davis)

References & Notes

Source: Clary, James B. and Sam B. Davis, History of the 3rd SC Battalion ( work in progress) - http://members.aol.com/GreySky285/3rdSCVbattalion.html (gone 5/2005)

We have 152 individuals in the AotW database who were on the Maryland Campaign with this unit:

Co.	Rank	Name	Casualty?
A	Pvt	Calhoun, James Smith	KIA 09/14
A	Pvt	Calhoun, Thomas Harrison	POW 09/14
A	Pvt	Calhoun, Jr., John William	KIA 09/14
A	Pvt	Cannon, Capers Bowman	WIA/POW 09/14
A	Pvt	Clardy, Reuben Stacey	WIA 09/14
A	Pvt	Connor, Leonidas Docitheus	POW 09/12
A	Pvt	Cook, Henry H.	WIA/POW 09/14
A	Pvt	Elmore, Logan C.	WIA 09/14
A	Pvt	Finley, James Henry	WIA 09/14
A	Pvt	Fooshe, James Dudley	WIA 09/14
A	Corp	Fooshe, John Coleman	POW 09/14
A	Pvt	Golding, Jr., John J.
A	Pvt	Griffin, Elihu Watts	POW 09/14
A	Pvt	Hill, Barney F.	POW 09/27
A	Pvt	Hines, George W.	POW 09/14
A	Sgt	Moore, George W.	WIA/POW 09/14
A	Pvt	Nelson, John M.	POW 09/14
A	Pvt	Nichols, John Henry	WIA/POW 09/14
A	Pvt	Owens, Elias N.	KIA 09/14
A	Pvt	Puckett, Cason Keels	KIA 09/14
A	Pvt	Puckett, Samuel David	POW 09/14
A	Pvt	Rampy, Joseph M.	WIA/POW 09/14
A	Pvt	Ramsey, James	POW 09/14
A	Capt	Townsend, Joshua Milton	POW 09/14
B	Pvt	Austin, Issac G.	WIA 09/14
B	Pvt	Austin, L. Samuel	KIA 09/14
B	Pvt	Coleman, Thomas J.	MWIA 09/14
B	Pvt	Crawford, John W.	KIA 09/14
B	Sgt	Davis, James W.	MWIA 09/14
B	Lt	Dunlap, Richard Simpson
B	Lt	Fuller, Adolphus Augustus	WIA/POW 09/14
B	Pvt	Fuller, Edwin T.	KIA 09/14
B	Sgt	Fuller, John Cook	MWIA 09/14
B	Pvt	Fuller, William Benton	WIA 09/14
B	Pvt	Griffin, Elihu Clayton	KIA 09/14
B	Pvt	Hand, William H.	POW 09/14
B	Pvt	Hanvey, Wright Joshua	POW 09/14
B	Pvt	Hitt, Henry Lewis	POW 09/17
B	Pvt	Hollingsworth, Jr., Abraham	KIA 09/14
B	Pvt	Irby, Waddy Thompson	KIA 09/14
B	Pvt	Jones, James A.	WIA/POW 09/14
B	Pvt	Madden, William Cunningham	KIA 09/14
B	Pvt	Nelson, James Franklin	POW 09/14
B	Pvt	Smith, Maxwell	KIA 09/14
B	Pvt	Snow, Andrew Jackson	WIA 09/14
B	Pvt	Waldrop, William Ephram	KIA 09/14
B	Pvt	Walker, Francis Marion	WIA/POW 09/14
B	Pvt	Watson, James Ewell	POW 09/14
C	Corp	Anderson, John Stennis	POW 09/14
C	Pvt	Avery, Joseph J.	KIA 09/14
C	Pvt	Baldwin, James Emmanuel	WIA 09/14
C	Sgt	Baldwin, Salisbury B.
C	Pvt	Bolt, John	POW 09/13
C	Pvt	Brooks, James P.	POW 09/12
C	Pvt	Brooks, Nathan Pinkney	POW 09/12
C	Pvt	Cannon, William N.	KIA 09/14
C	Lt	Cooper, Isaac Newton
C	Sgt	Cooper, Thomas Porter	MWIA 09/14
C	Pvt	Dagnall, William J.	WIA 09/14
C	Lt	Fuller, Henry Y.
C	Sgt	Henderson, Mastin W.	KIA 09/14
C	Mus	Hudgens, Ambrose Watts	WIA/POW 09/14
C	Pvt	Johnson, Benjamin F.	KIA 09/14
C	Pvt	Lindley, William T.	KIA 09/14
C	Pvt	Motes, A. Tolen	KIA 09/14
C	Pvt	Walker, John M.	POW 09/14
C	Pvt	Watkins, Lawson	KIA 09/14
C	Pvt	Wilson, John Newton	WIA/POW 09/14
D	Pvt	Balle, Lipman George
D	Pvt	Brownlee, Joseph Reuben	WIA/POW 09/14
D	Pvt	Burdette, George R.	WIA 09/14
D	Pvt	Curry, Henry Linden	POW 09/14
D	Pvt	Evans, William Kiels
D	Capt	Gunnels, George Martin
D	Lt	Harris, John N.
D	Pvt	Hollingsworth, James I.
D	Corp	Jones, Elihu Pinckney
D	Pvt	Kelly, William Franklin	WIA/POW 09/14
D	Lt	Kirk, Charles Edmonson	POW 09/14
D	Pvt	Langston, Henry Lawrence	MIA (r) 09/14
D	Pvt	Loyd, J. Thomas	WIA/POW 09/14
D	Pvt	Madden, Charles Simmons	MWIA 09/14
D	Pvt	Madden, E. Decatur	WIA/POW 09/14
D	Pvt	McCluney, James	WIA/POW 09/14
D	Pvt	McKnight, William Downs	KIA 09/14
D	Pvt	Monroe, J. L. Wesley	KIA 09/14
D	Pvt	Owings, Richard Leander	POW 09/14
D	Sgt	Ramage, Joseph Franklin	WIA 09/14
D	Pvt	Shockley, Robert T.	KIA 09/14
D	Sgt	Simpson, William Wade	KIA 09/14
D	Pvt	Speake, John L.	POW 09/14
D	Pvt	Spears, Robert S.	POW 09/14
D	Pvt	Thomas, John L.
E	Corp	Armstrong, Dempsy	KIA 09/14
E	Pvt	Babb, Doctor Anderson	KIA 09/14
E	Pvt	Bramlett, Lewis Robert	POW 09/14
E	Pvt	Bryant, John Wesley	POW 09/14
E	Pvt	Fowler, James Wiley	WIA 09/14
E	Pvt	Grumbles, William Winston	WIA/POW 09/14
E	Lt	Henry, Robert Leland	WIA 09/14
E	Pvt	Higgins, Augustus H.	POW 09/15
E	Pvt	Martin, Jasper Ray	WIA 09/14
E	Pvt	McNeely, John O.	POW 09/14
E	Pvt	Morgan, J. S.	WIA/POW 09/14
E	Pvt	Owens, Mancil	POW 09/14
E	Pvt	Patterson, William Preston	WIA/POW 09/14
E	Pvt	Riddle, Drury Boyce	KIA 09/14
E	Corp	Riddle, James Andrew	POW 09/14
E	Pvt	Riddle, Martin	POW 09/14
E	Pvt	Riddle, W. Drayton	KIA 09/14
E	Pvt	Riddle, Willis Marion	POW 09/14
E	Pvt	Stewart, Joseph Warren	MWIA 09/14
E	Pvt	Sumerel, Martin	KIA 09/14
E	Corp	Sumerel, Toliver	WIA/POW 09/14
E	Pvt	Sumerel, William W.	MWIA 09/14
E	Pvt	Todd, Robert James	POW 09/14
F	Pvt	Campbell, James Richard	POW 09/14
F	Pvt	Claffey, Patrick	POW 09/14
F	Pvt	Fleming, Alexander Hamilton	WIA/POW 09/14
F	Lt	Freidberg, Joseph F.	MWIA 09/14
F	Pvt	Fulmer, William E.C.	POW 09/14
F	Pvt	Glaze, John	POW 09/14
F	Sgt	Keough, Patrick H.	KIA 09/14
F	Corp	McCauley, J. B.	MIA (r) 09/14
F	Capt	Miller, Daniel Byrd	POW 09/14
F	Pvt	North, Samuel R.	WIA 09/14
F	Pvt	Rembert, John	WIA/POW 09/14
F	Pvt	Smith, Thomas McLaughlin	KIA 09/14
F	Pvt	Stokes, Elwood R.	WIA/POW 09/14
F	Pvt	Thrift, Robert	POW 09/14
G	Pvt	Aiken, Hugh W.	POW 09/14
G	Sgt	Anderson, James J.	KIA 09/14
G	Pvt	Blair, Andrew Franklin
G	Pvt	Boyd, John Wesley	WIA/POW 09/14
G	Pvt	Brown, George W.	WIA 09/14
G	Pvt	Graddick, Jesse	WIA 09/14
G	Pvt	Hagood, Robert M.	WIA/POW 09/14
G	Lt	Jennings, Robert Henry	POW 09/14
G	Sgt	Martin, David R.	KIA 09/14
G	Pvt	Mason, Washington N.	WIA 09/14
G	Corp	McConnell, Andrew C.	POW 09/14
G	Pvt	Paul, John F.	WIA/POW 09/14
G	Pvt	Robinson, W. H.	WIA/POW 09/14
G	Lt	Shedd, James P.	KIA 09/14
G	Pvt	Tinkler, George S.	POW 09/14
G	Pvt	Trapp, Labon H.	WIA/POW 09/14
G	Pvt	Watt, Benjamin Franklin	POW 09/14
F&S	ASrg	Baruch, Simon
F&S	Sgt	Davis, Andrew Calhoun	POW 09/15
F&S	LCol	James, George Strother	MWIA 09/14
F&S	Sgt	Ligon, George Anderson	POW 09/14
F&S	Maj	Rice, William George Washington	WIA 09/14

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