Unit

Confederate Battalion

4th South Carolina Infantry Battalion

Commanding Officer:
Lt. W. F. Field

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 #356: Jenkins' Brigade, Jones' Division - 15 Sep, 11 AM to 19 Sep, 5 AM
   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 #369: Jones' Division, Longstreet's Command - 17 Sep, 7 AM to 17 Sep, 3 PM
   Tablet #304: Longstreet's Command - 17 Sep, 7 AM to 17 Sep, 3 PM

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

History of the Unit:
This battalion was formed in the Army reorganization of April 1862 by consolidating the 450 men of the 4th SC Infantry Regiment into five companies.1

In the Antietam Campaign:
Following Sharpsburg, the Fourth was down to "a handful of men", and they were transferred to the Hampton Legion's Infantry.1

We have one individual in the AotW database for this unit:

Co.	Rank	Name	Casualty?	Details*
C	Lt	Field, W T

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Notes

1 Batson, Steve, South Carolina in the War Between the States, Published c.1996, first accessed 08 August 2005, <http://www.geocities.com/BourbonStreet/Square/3873/b/scmp.html>, Source page: [http://batsonsm.tripod.com/b/bati1c.html] [AotW citation 213]

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