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Holcombe Legion, South Carolina
31 service cards, Confederate, under 9 company designations, as the National Park Service index files them.
History
Holcome Legion was organized during the fall of 1861 with a cavalry and infantry battalion. The four-company cavalry battalion served for a time with the legion, was assigned to the Department of Richmond, and eventually became part of the 7th South Carolina Cavalry Regiment. 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. The unit was then sent to North Carolina and later Mississippi. It 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. This command lost 24 killed and 131 wounded at Second Manassas, had 18 wounded during the Maryland Campaign, and in September, 1863, totalled 276 men. It surrendered 2 officers and 30 men. The field officers were Colonels William J. Crawley, Stephen Elliot, Jr., W. Pinkney Shingler, and P.F. Stevens; Lieutenant Colonels F.G. Palmer and Thomas V. Walsh; and Majors A.C. Garlington and Martin G. Zeigler.
National Park Service, Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System, battle unit CSCHOLCL, drawing on Joseph H. Crute Jr., Units of the Confederate States Army (Midlothian, Va.: Derwent Books, 1987).
Engagements the history names
- Manassas II — August 1862
- South Mountain — September 1862
- Antietam — September 1862
- Petersburg III — March-April 1865
- Appomattox Court House — March-April 1865
Where the records are
- Compiled service records
- NARA M267, Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of South Carolina, 393 rolls, arranged by unit and then by name. The index roll below points into them.
- Index cards
- NARA M381, rolls 6–34 (alphabetical by surname; each card below names its roll).
- Muster-roll captions and record of events
- NARA M861, roll 48, under the caption Holcombe Legion — the unit's muster-roll captions and record-of-events cards.
- In the index
- Battle unit CSCHOLCL on nps.gov; the cards below link to their records there.
In the 1898 roll book
- Company A, Roll of Company A, Holcombe Legion, South Carolina Volunteers, in the Confederate States Provisional Army. — page 484 (match to this unit not certain)
- Company B, Roll of Company B, Holcombe Legion, South Carolina Volunteers, in the Confederate States Provisional Army. — page 485 (match to this unit not certain)
- Company C, Roll of Company C, Holcombe Legion, South Carolina Volunteers, in the Confederate States Provisional Army. — pages 486, 487 (match to this unit not certain)
- Company D, Roll of Company D, Holcombe Legion, South Carolina Volunteers, in the Confederate States Provisional Army. — page 488 (match to this unit not certain)
- Company E, Roll of Company E, Holcombe Legion, South Carolina Volunteers, in the Confederate States Provisional Army. — page 489 (match to this unit not certain)
- Company F, Roll of Company F, Holcombe Legion, South Carolina Volunteers, in the Confederate States Provisional Army. — pages 490, 491 (match to this unit not certain)
- Company G, Roll of Company G, Holcombe Legion, South Carolina Volunteers, in the Confederate States Provisional Army. — page 492 (match to this unit not certain)
- Company H, Roll of Company H, Holcombe Legion, South Carolina Volunteers, in the Confederate States Provisional Army. — page 493 (match to this unit not certain)
- Company I, Roll of Company I, Holcombe Legion, South Carolina Volunteers, in the Confederate States Provisional Army. — page 494 (match to this unit not certain)
- Company K, Roll of Company K, Holcombe Legion, South Carolina Volunteers, in the Confederate States Provisional Army. — page 495 (match to this unit not certain)
The men, by company
One line per index card, in the index's spelling; "also filed as" is the spelling the index cross-files the card under. "Record" opens the card on nps.gov.
Company A (1) Company B (4) Company C (3) Company D (3) Company E (1) Company F (1) Company I (1) Field and staff (3) No company recorded (14)
Company A 1 card
| Name | Also filed as | Rank in | Rank out | M381 roll | Record | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Muldrow, Robert M. | Maldrow, R.M. | Private | Assistant Surgeon | 23 | card |
Company B 4 cards
Company C 3 cards
Company D 3 cards
Company E 1 card
| Name | Also filed as | Rank in | Rank out | M381 roll | Record | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Walker, Joseph | Teamster | Teamster | 33 | card |
Company F 1 card
| Name | Also filed as | Rank in | Rank out | M381 roll | Record | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Smith, A.J. | Private | Private | 30 | card |
Company I 1 card
| Name | Also filed as | Rank in | Rank out | M381 roll | Record | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pope, David E. | Private | Corporal | 26 | card |
Field and staff 3 cards
No company recorded 14 cards
| Name | Also filed as | Rank in | Rank out | M381 roll | Record | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chesnut, Eli | Chestnut, Eli | Teamster | Teamster | 6 | card |
| 2 | Gitzy, J.G. | Private | Private | 12 | card | |
| 3 | Glymph, F.J. | 12 | card | |||
| 4 | Goin, James | Private | Private | 13 | card | |
| 5 | Graham, Felix | 13 | card | |||
| 6 | Grover, J.S. | 13 | card | |||
| 7 | Hawkins, W.J. | Private | Private | 15 | card | |
| 8 | McDonald, John | 21 | card | |||
| 9 | Mudd, T.G. | 23 | card | |||
| 10 | Porter, J.F. | Porter, John A. | Chaplain | Chaplain | 26 | card |
| 11 | Porter, John A. | Chaplain | Chaplain | 26 | card | |
| 12 | Snowden, P.G. | Assistant Surgeon | Assistant Surgeon | 30 | card | |
| 13 | Vinson, Jesse | Vincent, Jesse | Private | Private | 33 | card |
| 14 | Wicker, Belton | 34 | card |