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commanded, I ordered the camp struck at 8:30 P.M. and marched toward
Asheboro, NC. ... At this place I disbanded the Regiment and sent them home." On the morning of 27 April General Stokes awoke to find the teamsters had disappeared with the mule team of the headquarters wagon. He then ordered the wagon burned rather than allow it to fall into enemy hands. With that, most of the records, and history, of the 4th SC Cavalry disappeared.
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Most of the companies in this regiment existed previously as South
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CORRECTION TO PRECEDING. Per the book Saddle
Soldiers, the Correspondence of General William Stokes (Lt. Colonel of the 4th) by Lloyd Halliburton the 4th SC Cavalry did not surrender. The General's own words were "not desiring to go through the formality of surrendering the Regiment which I
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Of the seven cavalry regiments raised in South
Carolina during the war, the 4th South Carolina lost more men than any other unit. More than 260 members of the 4th South Carolina were killed in action or died of wounds, disease or in federal prisoner of war camps.
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Virginia and Back with Rutledge's Cavalry: A History of the 4th South Carolina Cavalry Regiment
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through the spring of 1865, surrendering with the Army of the
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Destruction of the George Washington near Beaufort, South Carolina (April 9, 1863)
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A Sketch of the Charleston Light Dragoons From the Earliest Formation of the Corps
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Matthew Calbraith Butler: Confederate General, Hampton Red Shirt, and U.S. Senator
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Expedition from Fort Pulaski, Georgia, to Bluffton, South Carolina (June 4, 1863)
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First Lieutenant Thomas S. Nelson of Co. I, 4th South Carolina Cavalry Regiment
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Rivers Account of the Raising of the Troops for State and Confederate Service
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Company K - Charleston Light Dragoons - Charleston and Beaufort Districts
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Rebels in Gray, Soldiers from Pickens District 1861-65, (Co. C)
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Company I - Williamsburg Light Dragoons - Williamsburg District
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Company D - Santee Mounted Riflemen - Georgetown District
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James S. Dodd, Pvt., Co. C, 4th South Carolina Cavalry
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288:Adjutant James R. Massey; Gabriel Manigault
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348:The battle history of the regiment:
435:6th Regiment South Carolina Cavalry
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370:Cunningham's Bluff (Nov. 24, 1863)
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312:Company A - Chesterfield District
282:Lieutenant Colonel William Stokes
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352:Black River (Aug. 13, 1862)
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