Manigault's Battalion, South Carolina Artillery

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Brief History
18th Heavy Artillery Battalion [often called the Siege Train Artillery Battalion] was organized during the spring of 1862 with three companies. Many of the men were from Charleston. It surrendered on April 26, 1865.

Companies in the Manigault's Battalion, South Carolina Artillery with County of Origin

 * Company A - Palmetto Guard, Palmetto Guards Artillery
 * Company B - Alston Light Artillery, Horry Artillery
 * Company C - McQueen Light Artillery, Gregg's Battery, Pee Dee Artillery, Bridges' Light Artillery
 * Company D - Bridge's Louisiana Battery, Zimmerman Light Artillery
 * Company E - Gist Guards, Gist Guard Artillery
 * Company F

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).


 * The War for Southern Independence in South Carolina. Eastern Digital Resources, (accessed 2 Apr 2011). This site contains some historical sketches, officers, battles, rosters, bibliographies and references.


 * Manigault, Edward; Warren Ripley; Charleston Library Society. Siege train : The Journal of a Confederate Artilleryman in the Defense of Charleston (Columbia, S.C.; Published for the Charleston Library Society by the University of South Carolina Press, ©1986), 364 pages. Book at WorldCat.org