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Muster In: June 4, 18611
Muster Out: April 9, 18652
Commander(s):
Colonel Asbury Coward
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First Offensive Order of Battle: Bratton’s Brigade | Field’s Division | First Corps | Army of Northern Virginia | Confederate Army3
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Dyer’s/Sifakis’ Compendium Info:
Siege of Petersburg Battles8:
- Petersburg Siege (June 1864-April 1865)
- 2nd Fort Harrison (September 30, 1864)
- Williamsburg Road (October 27, 1864)
- Appomattox Court House (April 9, 1865)
Bibliography:
- 5th SC: The South Carolinians: Colonel Asbury Coward’s Memoirs
- 5th SC: The Struck Eagle: A Biography of Brigadier General Micah Jenkins, and a History of the Fifth South Carolina Volunteers and the Palmetto Sharpshooters
- 5th SC: Through the Valley of the Shadow of Death: The Civil War Manuscript Collection of Captain Harvey Alexander Wallace
Siege of Petersburg Documents Which Mention This Unit:
- 5th SC: The South Carolinians: Colonel Asbury Coward’s Memoirs
- 5th SC: The Struck Eagle: A Biography of Brigadier General Micah Jenkins, and a History of the Fifth South Carolina Volunteers and the Palmetto Sharpshooters
- 5th SC: Through the Valley of the Shadow of Death: The Civil War Manuscript Collection of Captain Harvey Alexander Wallace
- CT AG 64-65: Report of Colonel John L. Otis, 10th Connecticut, of operations October 7, 1864
Sources:
- Compendium of the Confederate Armies: South Carolina and Georgia by Stewart Sifakis, pages 69-71 ↩
- Compendium of the Confederate Armies: South Carolina and Georgia by Stewart Sifakis, pages 69-71 ↩
- The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1: The Army of Northern Virginia by F. Ray Sibley, Jr., page 110 ↩
- Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of South Carolina, National Archives, Roll 191 (Asbury Coward, 5th South Carolina): Ray Sibley claims there is documentation supporting Coward’s command of the 5th South Carolina in June 1864, but after looking through his compiled service record I was unable to find this evidence. More research is needed. ↩
- The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1: The Army of Northern Virginia by F. Ray Sibley, Jr., page 110 ↩
- Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of South Carolina, National Archives, Roll 191 (Asbury Coward, 5th South Carolina): Ray Sibley claims there is documentation supporting Coward’s command of the 5th South Carolina in June 1864, but after looking through his compiled service record I was unable to find this evidence. More research is needed. ↩
- Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of South Carolina, National Archives, Roll 191 (Asbury Coward, 5th South Carolina): Field and Staff Muster Roll for July + August, 1864 ↩
- Compendium of the Confederate Armies: South Carolina and Georgia by Stewart Sifakis, pages 69-71 ↩
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