Confederate Regiment

17th South Carolina Infantry

Organized: Charleston, SC; mustered in 1862

Commanding Officer on the Sharpsburg Campaign:
Col. F. W. McMaster

This Regiment's Chain of Command:
  Army - Army of Northern Virginia
  Corps - Longstreet's Command
  Brigade - Evans' (Independent) Brigade

Unit history

Organized at Columbia and Charleston in late 1861 and early 1862. The first commander, Col J H Means, was killed in action at Second Manassas (8/30/1862). LCol McMaster assumed command, and led until his capture at Petersburg, VA, in August 1864.

Statistics

Initial Strength: 148; Killed in Action (KIA): 11; Wounded (WIA): 49; Missing in Action (MIA): 20;
Losses, % of Initial Strength: 54.1%

Maps Showing this Unit

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)

Battlefield Tablets for this Unit

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

We have 153 individuals in the AotW database who were on the Maryland Campaign with this unit:

Co.	Rank	Name	Casualty?
A	Pvt	Baskin, Joseph W.	KIA 09/16
A	Pvt	Jerome, Henry	AWOL 09/18
A	Pvt	Kee, William L.
A	Pvt	Lyle, David
A	Pvt	Lyle, John
A	Pvt	Mickle, S. T.
A	Pvt	Moose, Jr., John A.	POW 09/14
A	Sgt	Nunnery, Amos Lemuel
A	Pvt	Swett, J. L.
A	Pvt	Thrailkill, Clifton	KIA 09/14
A	Pvt	Walker, Andrew Jackson
B	Pvt	Burns, T. D.
B	Pvt	Coleman, Jr., Henry Jonathan	WIA 09/14
B	Pvt	Crowder, William J.	WIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Dye, Charles	POW 09/14
B	Pvt	Dye, James L.
B	Pvt	Free, Joseph
B	Pvt	Hill, C. Edward	POW 09/14
B	Pvt	Jenkins, William J.	KIA 09/14
B	Sgt	McConnell, Jr., Andrew Jackson	WIA 09/14
B	Pvt	McGill, Robert
B	Pvt	Mobley, Thomas Andrew Jackson
B	Corp	Wright, John D.	POW 09/14
C	Pvt	Bowen, Richard	MWIA 09/14
C	Corp	Brown, J. L.	WIA 09/14
C	Pvt	Clark, William	KIA 09/17
C	Corp	Gladden, Thomas C.	KIA 09/14
C	Pvt	Hartness, William Thomas	WIA 09/14
C	Pvt	McKeown, William O.	MIA (r) 09/17
C	Pvt	Mintz, John S.
C	Pvt	Mintz, William Drayton	KIA 09/14
C	Sgt	Moore, J. M.	KIA 09/14
C	Sgt	Moore, Thomas J.	KIA 09/14
C	Lt	Moore, William H.	KIA 09/14
C	Pvt	Moss, Robert Henry	WIA 09/14
C	Pvt	Price, Thomas J.	KIA 09/17
C	Pvt	Queen, G. W.	MWIA 09/17
C	Pvt	Randall, R. H.
C	Corp	Sanders, Smith	WIA 09/14
C	Pvt	Smith, Joseph W.
C	Pvt	Warlick, William H.	WIA 09/14
C	Pvt	Wisher, Joseph A.	WIA 09/14
D	Pvt	Brown, James	WIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Corder, David Adams
D	Pvt	Lathan, Samuel Boston	WIA/POW 09/14
D	Pvt	McCully, John E.
D	Pvt	McElduff, John	KIA 09/14
D	Pvt	McWatters, Jesse	MIA (r) 09/17
D	Pvt	McWatters, John	WIA/POW 09/14
D	Pvt	Ratteree, Alexander	MWIA 09/14
D	Pvt	Ratterree, Robert Gray	POW 09/00
D	Pvt	Wilson, Nicholas	KIA 09/14
E	Pvt	Armstrong, Joel	WIA 09/14
E	Corp	Barron, Samuel Watson
E	Corp	Boyd, Robert G. G.	MWIA 09/14
E	Pvt	Burton, William
E	Pvt	Carothers, William Harper	WIA 09/14
E	Pvt	Cathcart, Jr., Joseph Harvey
E	Pvt	Chambers, R. P.	MWIA 09/16
E	Lt	Cherry, Elijah Hyatt	WIA 09/14
E	Pvt	Choate, James Van Buren
E	Pvt	Choate, William
E	Pvt	Faris, James Monroe	KIA 09/16
E	Pvt	Faris, Jesse Isaac	WIA 09/14
E	Pvt	Faris, William Jasper	WIA 09/14
E	Pvt	Felts, H. J.	KIA 09/14
E	Pvt	Finley, Robert	WIA 09/14
E	Pvt	Garrison, Thomas D.	WIA 09/14
E	Pvt	Jackson, J. J.
E	Pvt	Johnston, Samuel Lee
E	Pvt	Merritt, Robert Nevall
E	Lt	Moss, J. R.
E	Corp	Nelson, John J.	MWIA 09/16
E	Pvt	Patton, Robert Franklin	KIA 09/14
E	Pvt	Turner, George Middleton	WIA 09/14
E	Sgt	Williams, Leroy Russell
F	Capt	Avery, John William	WIA 09/16
F	Pvt	Burns, J. P.
F	Pvt	Carroll, Thomas Marion
F	Pvt	Carson, Edward R.
F	Pvt	Caveny, John P.	MWIA 09/17
F	Pvt	Clark, William H.	MWIA 09/14
F	Pvt	Dover, Felix Hill
F	Pvt	Downey, E. J.
F	Pvt	Hope, Isaac Meek
F	Pvt	Martin, James
F	Lt	Moore, William Springs
F	Pvt	Moorehouse, George L.	WIA 09/16
F	Pvt	Murphy, W. R.
F	Pvt	Parker, Robert G.	WIA 09/14
F	Pvt	Scates, Joseph
F	Pvt	Scates, Matthew	WIA 09/14
F	Pvt	Seypaugh, Jacob	KIA 09/14
F	Pvt	Sweezy, John Middleton	WIA 09/14
F	Pvt	Tippings, T. S.
F	Pvt	Whitesides, William Ross
G	Pvt	Bass, H. Edmund	KIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Bishop, Adam
G	Pvt	Breland, John Franklin	WIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Brown, WIlliam F.
G	Pvt	Chitty, Leonard S.
G	Pvt	Clay, G. B.	WIA 09/14
G	Lt	Dickinson, Josiah
G	Corp	Goodson, George William	WIA 09/14
G	Pvt	Goodson, Henry Medicus
G	Pvt	Jones, Jones Frank	WIA 09/14
G	Lt	Kearse, George Holliway	WIA 09/14
G	Pvt	Williams, George Perry
H	Pvt	Atteberry, Andrew	WIA 09/14
H	Pvt	Bird, Cornelius	KIA 09/17
H	Pvt	Chitty, William Pinkney	WIA 09/14
H	Pvt	Collins, Augustus D.	MWIA 09/14
H	Corp	Creech, John Jackson
H	Pvt	Hutto, Benjamin R.	WIA 09/14
H	Sgt	Jones, James F.
H	Pvt	Milhous, Urban Glen
H	Pvt	Myrick, J. M.	KIA 09/17
H	Pvt	Rentz, Cornelius	KIA 09/17
H	Pvt	Smoke, George W.	KIA 09/14
H	Pvt	Still, Barnett M.
H	Pvt	Varn, George Washington	WIA 09/14
H	Pvt	Zorn, Johnson Brooker	WIA 09/17
I	Lt	Faulkner, W. H.	MWIA 09/14
I	Pvt	Gilliam, Tignal	KIA 09/14
I	Lt	Horton, William
I	Pvt	Lark, Jr., James R.	POW 09/14
I	Pvt	Lucas, Harrison	KIA 09/00
I	Pvt	McDow, Hugh Johnston	MWIA 09/14
I	Pvt	Montgomery, Robert	WIA 09/14
I	Pvt	Ogburn, D. W.
I	Pvt	Wallace, Samuel J.	KIA 09/14
I	Pvt	Welsh, Nicholas	WIA 09/14
K	Pvt	Ash, Robert E.	WIA/POW 09/14
K	Pvt	Ayers, Jefferson	WIA 09/14
K	Pvt	Berry, R. S.
K	Pvt	Bowlin, Thomas	WIA 09/14
K	Pvt	Canty, William	WIA 09/17
K	Capt	Crawford, Edward Alexander
K	Pvt	Garvin, James L.	WIA 09/14
K	Pvt	Howe, James Leander
K	Pvt	Love, WIlliam A.
K	Pvt	McKnight, A. C.
K	Pvt	Montgomery, John
K	Pvt	Parks, J. Monroe
K	Sgt	Sutton, U. H.
K	Pvt	Thomas, David Elam
K	Pvt	Thomas, John Alexander	WIA 09/16
K	Pvt	White, Benjamin Franklin
K	Pvt	Wylie, William	POW 09/14
F&S	Lt	Conner, James W.
F&S	Col	McMaster, Fitz William
F&S	Maj	Means, Robert Stark	WIA/POW 09/14
F&S	ASrg	Waring, Thomas Smith

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