8th South Carolina Infantry

== Regimental History and Service Record ==
* April 12-14, 1861 - Fort Sumter
* April 13, 1861 - Organized 
** ? - Mustered into Confederate service
* June 16, 1861Originally printed 1862 - likely a misprint - Secessionville
* May 14, 1862 - Reorganized for the war
* June 21, 1861 - Battle of Bull Run, Virginia
* April-May 1862 - Siege of Yorktown 
* May 4, 1862 - Skirmish at Williamsburg
* June 25-July 1, 1862 - The Seven Days Battles before Richmond, Virginia
** June 29, 1862 - Savage's Station
** July 1, 1862 - Malvern Hill
* September 12-15, 1862 - Harpers Ferry
* September 14, 1862 - South Mountain
* September 17, 1862 - Battle of Antietam, Maryland
* December 13, 1862 - Fredericksburg
* May 1-4, 1863 - Battle of Chancellorsville, Virginia
* June 1-3, 1863 - Battle of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
* September 19-20, 1863 - Battle of Chickamauga, Georgia
* September-November 1863 - Siege of Chattanooga
* November 16, 1863 - Campbell's Station
* November-December 1863 - Siege of Knoxville
* November 29, 1863 - Fort Sanders
* December 15, 1863 - Bean's Station
* May 5-6, 1864 - The Wilderness
* May 8-21, 1864 - Battles of Spotsylvania Court House, Virginia
* May 23-26, 1864 - North Anna River
* June 1-3, 1864 - Cold Harbor
* June 1864-April 1865 - Siege of Petersburg
* August 1864 - Berryville
* October 7, 1864 - near Port Republic
* October 14, 1864 - near Strasburg
* October 19, 1864 - Cedar Creek
* February-April 1865 - The Carolinas Campaign
* March 16, 1865 - Averasboro
* March 19-21, 1865 - Bentonville
* April 9, 1865 - Consolidated at Smithfield, Johnston County, North Carolina with the following units:
** 3rd South Carolina Infantry
** 3rd South Carolina Infantry Battalion
** 1st South Carolina (Reserve) Infantry Battalion
** 2nd South Carolina (Reserve) Infantry Battalion
** 6th South Carolina (Reserve) Infantry Battalion
** 7th South Carolina (Reserve) Infantry Battalion
** Re-designated 3rd (Consolidated) South Carolina Infantry
DESIGNATIONS
* Department of Alexandria / Bonham's Brigade (June 1861)
* Army of the Potomac / Bonham's Brigade (June-July 1861)
* Army of the Potomac / 1st Corps / Bonham's Brigade (July-October 1861)
* Army of the Potomac / 1st Corps / 3rd Division / Bonham's Brigade (October 1861)
* Department of Northern Virginia / Potomac District / 1st Corps / 3rd Division / Bonham's Brigade (October-November 1861)
* Department of Northern Virginia / Potomac District / 1st Corps / Van Dorn's/Early's Division / Bonham's/Kershaw's Brigade (November 1861-January 1862)
* Department of Northern Virginia / Potomac District / Early's Division / Kershaw's Brigade (January-March 1862)
* Department of the Peninsula / Kershaw's Brigade (March-April 1862)
* Army of Northern Virginia / Magruder's Command / McLaws' Division / Kershaw's Brigade (April 1862-July 1863)
* Army of Northern Virginia / 1st Corps / McLaws' Division / Kershaw's Brigade (July-September 1863)Originally printed July 1862 - likely a misprint
* Army of Tennessee / Longstreet's Corps / McLaw's Division / Kershaw's Brigade (September-November 1863)
* Department of East Tennessee / McLaw's/Kershaw's Division / Kershaw's Brigade (November 1863-April 1864)
* Army of Northern Virginia / 1st Corps / Kershaw's Division / Kershaw's Brigade (April-August 1864)
* Department of Northern Virginia / Valley District / Kershaw's Division / Kershaw's/Connor's Brigade (August-September 1864)
* Kershaw's Division / Kershaw's/Connor's Brigade (returning to the Petersburg lines but recalled) (September 1864)
* Department of Northern Virginia / Valley District / Kershaw's Division / Connor's Brigade (September-October 1864)
* Army of Northern Virginia / 1st Corps / Kershaw's Division / Connor's/Kennedy's Brigade (November 1864-January 1865)
* Department of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida / McLaws' Division / Kennedy's Brigade (January-February 1865)
* Hardee's Corps / McLaws'/Walthall's Division / Kennedy's Brigade (February-April 1865)
== Regimental Roster ==
* First Commander: Ellerbee B.C. Cash (Colonel)
* John W. Henagan (Lieutenant Colonel, Colonel)
* Axalla J. Hoole (Lieutenant Colonel)
* Thomas E. Lucas (Major)
* Donald McLeod (Major)
* Eli T. Stackhouse (Major)
== Regiment Statistical Information ==
== Legacy ==
== Notes ==
== Sources == 
* Dickert, D. Augustus, History of Kershaw's Brigade, With Complete Roll of Companies, Biographical Sketches, Incidents, Anecdotes, etc. 
* (Pages 62, 78-80)
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