1st South Carolina Volunteer Infantry

1st South Carolina Volunteer Infantry (1898-1898) - Organized and mustered into the service of the United States at Columbia, S. C., May 10 to 23, 1898, with 47 officers and 951 enlisted men.

• Assignments:
  • Assigned to First Brigade, Third Division, First Army Corps, June 7
  • Assigned to Second Brigade,. Third Division, Seventh Army Corps, July 31

• Movements:
  • Left Columbia June 6; arrived at Chickamauga, Ga., June 7
  • Left Chickamauga July 29; arrived at Jacksonville, Fla., July 31
  • Left Jacksonville September 24; arrived at Columbia, S. C., same date
  • Furloughed for thirty days September 29.

Mustered out of the service of the United States at Columbia, S. C., November 10, 1898, with 49 officers and 1,140 enlisted men. Casualties while in service: Officers-died of disease, 1. Enlisted men-died of disease, 18; deserted, 35.

From:

• Correspondence Relating to the War with Spain, Center for Military History, U.S. Army, Vol 1
  • The Organization of the Army during the Spanish-American War, page 509
  • Organization of Volunteers, page 581

See Also:

• Spanish American War
• Spanish American War Regiments
• Spanish American War Camps