The Fourth Alabama Painting by Don Troiani

Seventh (Demi) Brigade, Army of the Potomac

Fourth Sergeant B B Breazeale, Company J, 4th South Carolina Infantry

Fourth Sergeant B B Breazeale, Company J, 4th South Carolina Infantry

Fourth South Carolina Infantry

COLONEL J E B SLOAN
Colonel J D Ashmore resigned prior to April 1861 and was replaced by Lieutenant Colonel J E B Sloan.

LIEUTENANT COLONEL C S MATTISON
MAJOR J H WHITNER

Company A Butler Guards or Hoke's Rifle Company: CAPT. A D HOKE
Transferred to Company B, 2nd South Carolina Infantry, between 16 May and 24 June, 1861.
Company B Palmetto Riflemen: CAPT. W W HUMPHREYS
First Lieutenant W Earle commanding company on 21 July, 1861.
Company C Dean's Company: CAPT. J T DEAN
Company D Piercetown Guards: CAPT. J LONG
Company E Calhoun Mountaineers: CAPT. F W KILPATRICK
Company F Tyger Volunteers: CAPT. G POOLE
Company G Saludia Guards: CAPT. J G HAWTHORN
Company H (1st) Keowee Riflemen: CAPT. J W LIVINGSTON
Temporarily attached to the regiment early in 1861 but transferred to the 1st South Carolina Rifles, Company A, prior to 20 July, 1861.
Company H (2nd) Twelve Mile Volunteers: CAPT. R Y H GRIFFIN
Company I Pickens Guards: CAPT. W W HOLLINGSWORTH
Company J Confederate Guards: CAPT. W H ANDERSON
Company K Fort Hill Guards: CAPT. J L SHANKLIN
Replaced Company A on 4 June, 1861.

Sources

"Before the battle of First Manassas, the 4th Regiment was part of Jubal Early's Brigade, which consisted of the 13th Mississippi and the 24th and 7th Virginia Regiments."

South Carolina's military organisations during the War Between the States, The Upstate, by R S Seigler

Company J, Fourth South Carolina Infantry at the first battle of Manassas, by B B Breazeale

South Carolina troops in Confederate service, Volume II, complied by A S Salley, Jr.

History of the Fourth Regiment South Carolina Volunteers, from the commencement of the war until Lee's Surrender, by J W Reid

Notes

The 4th South Carolina Infantry was authorised under the Act of 17 December, 1860, calling for ten regiments of volunteers for twelve months' state service. It was received into state service for one year on 6 March, 1861. The regiment was mustered in Confederate service on 6 June and 7 June, 1861. At reorganisation in April 1862, the regiment failed to reorganise and was disbanded with some men enlisting in the Palmetto Sharpshooters and the 13th South Carolina Battalion Infantry.

On 25 July 1861, the Army of the Potomac was reorganised and the 4th South Carolina Infantry, with the Calhoun Artillery under the command of Captain W R Calhoun attached, was assigned to the Third Brigade, First Corps, Army of the Potomac, under the command of Brigadier General D R Jones.

OFFICIAL REPORT NO.111: Series I, Volume 2 (S# 2), Chapter IX, pp. 560–562
Colonel J B E Sloan, Fourth South Carolina Infantry