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.


 * A Company (Lynch Creek Guards) - Darlington County
 * B Company (Dearing Guards) - Edgefield County
 * C Company (Raiborn Company) - Laurens County
 * D Company (Edgefield Rifles) - Edgefield County
 * E Company (Enoree Rifles) - Laurens County
 * F Company (Carolina Bees) - Laurens County
 * G Company (Captain Jays Company) - Abbeville County
 * H Company (Ryan Guards) - Barnwell County
 * I Company (McCalla Rifles) - Abbeville County
 * K Company (Meeting Street Saludas) - Edgefield County

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.