14th Regiment, South Carolina Infantry

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Brief History
Organized in July 1861 at Lightwood Knot Springs, near Columbia.



Companies in this Regiment with the Counties of Origin
Men often enlisted in a company recruited in the counties where they lived though not always. After many battles, companies might be combined because so many men were killed or wounded. However if you are unsure which company your ancestor was in, try the company recruited in his county first.


 * Company A - (also known as Lynch Creek Guards) Many men from Darlington District (Darlington County)
 * Company B - (also known as Dearing Guards) Many men from Darlington District (Edgefield County)
 * Company C - (also known as Raiborn Company) Many men from Laurens District (Laurens County)
 * Company D - (also known as Edgefield Rifles) Many men from Edgefield District (Edgefield County)
 * Company E - (also known as Enoree Rifles or enoree Misquitoes) Many men from Laurens District ( Laurens County)
 * Company F - (also known as Carolina Bees) Many men from Laurens District (Laurens County)
 * Company G - (also known as Captain Jays Company) Many men from Abbeville District (Abbeville County)
 * Company H - (also known as Ryan Guards) Many men from Barnwell District (Barnwell County)
 * Company I - (also known as McCalla Rifles) Many men from Abbeville District (Abbeville County)
 * Company K - (also known as Meeting Street Saludas) Many men from Edgefield District (Edgefield County)

Company names, nicknames and county of origin from: Robert K. Krick. The 14th South Carolina Infantry Regiment, of the Gregg-McGowan Brigade, Army of Northern Virginia (Wilmington, North Carolina : Broadfoot Pub. Co., c2008), 311 pages. Includes regimental Roster. All companies mustered in September 10, 1861. Book found at and Other Libraries.

Other Sources

 * Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System can be searched by soldier's name or by regiment; includes regimental rosters and additional history of the regiment. This site uses Joseph H. Crute's book, Units of the Confederate States Army, as their main source for the regiment history. Family History Library book 973 M2crua,, WorldCat.


 * Footnote.com (A subscription website, but is available for use at the Family History Library and some Family History Centers). It has digital Civil War soldier service records and brief regiment histories (located at the bottom of some of the muster rolls).


 * Brown, Joseph N.  An Address Delivered by Col. Joseph N. Brown at the November (1900) meeting of the R.E. Lee Chapter of the Daughters of the Confederacy, who requested him to address them on the Battle of the "Bloody Angle" May 12th 1864   ( Anderson, S.C. : Advocate Pub. Co., 1900), 11 pages. Available at WorldCat Libraries.


 * Brown, Varina D. A Colonel at Gettysburg and Spotsylvania (Columbia, S.C., State Co., 1931), 333 pages. pt. 1. The life and character of Colonel Joseph Newton Brown. Correspondence of 1861-1862. Papers by Colonel Joseph Newton Brown: South Carolinians at Gettysburg. The Bloody angle at Spotsylvania.--pt. 2. The battle at Gettysburg, July 1, 1863. The battle at Spotsylvania, May 12, 1864. Book available at WorldCat Libraries.


 * Carter, Sidney, Ellen Timmons Carter and Bessie Mell Lane  Dear Bet : the Carter letters, 1861-1863 : the letters of Lieutenant Sidney Carter, Company A, 14th Regiment, South Carolina Volunteers, Gregg's-McGowan's Brigade, CSA to Ellen Timmons Carter (Clemson, S.C. : B.M. Lane, ©1978), 165 pages. Book at  and Other Libraries.


 * Dunlop, William S. and Robert F Ward. Lee's Sharpshooters : or, The forefront of Battle : a story of southern valor that never has been told ( Dayton, Ohio : Morningside Bookshop, 1982), 499 pages. Digital Copies at Internet Archive and WorldCat Libraries. Microfiche at


 * Griffith, Harrison Patillo.Variosa : A Collection of Sketches, Essays and Verses (s.l. : s.n., 1911), 266 pages. Personal recollections of the Battle of Chancellorsville --Spartanburg on salesday (1879)   Book available at WorldCat Libraries.


 * Tompkins, Daniel Augustus. Company K, Fourteenth South Carolina Volunteers (Charlotte, North Carolina : Observer Print. and Pub. House, 1897), 36 pages. Includes rolls of company members. Book at and Other Libraries.


 * Caldwell, James F. J. The history of a brigade of South Carolinians, known first as Gregg's brigade and subsequently as McGowan's brigade. Microfiche of original published: Philadelphia : King &amp; Baird, Printers, 1866. 247 p., Bethesda, Maryland : University Publications of America, c1990. Google Books,, . The regiments which composed Gregg's Brigade of South Carolina Infantry, as it was commonly known, and which always composed McGowan's Brigade, were the following: the First South Carolina Volunteers, the Twelfth South Carolina Volunteers, the Thirteenth South Carolina Volunteers, the Fourteenth South Carolina Volunteers, and Orr's regiment of rifles, also from South Carolina.


 * Brown, Joseph N. Supplement to Col. J.N. Brown's account of the Battle of Gettysburg.  (Bethesda, Maryland : University Publications of America, c1990).   Includes a description of activities of the 14th South Carolina Infantry Regiment (Confederate) at the battle of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.  Available at the Family History Library,