The Fourth Alabama Painting by Don Troiani

Third Brigade, Army of the Potomac

Colonel M Jenkins

Colonel M Jenkins, commanding the 5th South Carolina Infantry

Fifth South Carolina Infantry

COLONEL M JENKINS
LIEUTENANT COLONEL G W H LEGG
MAJOR W T THOMPSON

Company A Johnson Riflemen or Rifles: CAPT. J W GOSS
Company B King's Mountain Guards: CAPT. A JACKSON
Company C (1st) Batesville Volunteers: CAPT. J J BROWN
Disbanded on 4 June, 1861, refusing to enlist in Confederate service.
Company C (2nd) Lawson's Fork Volunteers: CAPT. R B SEAY
Company D Tyger River Volunteers or Goshen Hill Volunteers: CAPT. R R GILES
Company E Pea Ridge Volunteers: CAPT. W J T GLENN
Company F Morgan Light Infantry or Rifles: CAPT. A H FOSTER
Company G Pacolet Guards: CAPT. J Q CARPENTER
Company H Catawba Light Infantry: CAPT. W J BOWEN
Company I Jasper Light Infantry: CAPT. C A SEABROOK
Company J Whyte Guards: CAPT. A E HUTCHISON
Disbanded after three months state service on Sullivan's Island.
Company K Spartan Rifles: CAPT. J H WALKER
Star Battery: FIRST LT. F G LATHAM
Artillery section attached about October 1861 and composed of a 30 to 40 man detachment of the 5th South Carolina Infantry. Two guns were detached from the Calhoun Light Artillery, which was attached to the 4th South Carolina Infantry, Third Brigade, First Corps, Army of the Potomac, from August to December 1861. First Lieutenant F G Latham was detached from Company G to command the section which ceased to exist in December 1861 or January 1862.

Sources

"Two days later, Lieutenant Colonel George W H Legg, 5th South Carolina Infantry, wrote a letter to his local newspaper 'The Carolina Spartan' stating, "We will have it today. We have been entrenching ourselves all night. We are well fortified at McClean's Ford." Several days before the commencement of fighting, Confederate General P G T Beauregard ordered a "heavy" abatis about 200 yards in depth to be constructed on the western side of the Stone Bridge across the Run."

American Civil War Fortifications (2): Land and Field Fortifications, byRon Field and illustrated by Peter Dennis

South Carolina Volunteers in the Civil War: Fifth South Carolina Volunteers (Jenkins'), in collaboration with W B Bynum, K R Johnson and H M Madaus with text and illustrations by R Field

South Carolina's Military Organisations During the War Between the States, The Upstate, by R S Seigler

Notes

The 5th 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 13 April, 1861. Two companies along with some individuals refused to muster in Confederate service and remained on Sullivan's Island, where they were disbanded in June. The regiment was mustered in Confederate service on 4 June with ten companies. At the expiration of the original twelve-month term of service on 13 April, 1862, the regiment was disbanded.

On 25 July 1861, the Army of the Potomac was reorganised and the 5th South Carolina Infantry was assigned to the Third Brigade, First Corps, Army of the Potomac, under the command of Brigadier General D R Jones.

Report

OFFICIAL REPORT NO.99: Series I, Volume 2 (S# 2), Chapter IX, pp. 541–543
Colonel M Jenkins, Fifth South Carolina Infantry