Holcombe (SC) Legion Infantry Battalion

The Holcome Legion was organized during the fall of 1861 with a cavalry and infantry battalion; no artillery component was organized. Colonel Stevens named it in honor of the SC governor's wife, Lucy Holcombe Pickens. The four-company cavalry battalion served for a time with the legion, was assigned to the Department of Richmond [about July 1862], and eventually became part of the 7th South Carolina Cavalry Regiment [in March 1864]. The infantry battalion was formed with eight companies, later increased to ten. During the war it was attached to Evans', Elliot's, and Wallace's Brigade. After serving in South Carolina it moved to Virginia and fought at Second Manassas, South Mountain, and Sharpsburg.

Detail Map #11: Sykes' Regulars Advance from the Middle Bridge (noon-4 pm)
Detail Map #12: Burnside's Ninth Corps Climbs Toward Sharpsburg (3-4 pm)
Detail Map #14: Sykes' Regulars Near Sharpsburg (4-5 pm)

Tablet #303: Longstreet's Command - 14 Sep, 9 PM to 15 Sep, 12 PM
Tablet #312: Evans' Brigade, Longstreet's Command - 14 Sep, 9 PM to 16 Sep, 9 PM
Tablet #313: Evans' Brigade, Longstreet's Command - 17 Sep, 6 AM to 17 Sep, 4 PM
Tablet #304: Longstreet's Command - 17 Sep, 7 AM to 17 Sep, 3 PM

After the Maryland Campaign they were sent to North Carolina and later Mississippi. The Legion was active at Jackson, moved to Charleston, and in the spring of 1864 returned to Virginia. Here it participated in the long Petersburg siege north and south of the James River and the Appomattox Campaign (from the National Park Service unit history summary).