Hampton Legion (South Carolina) Infantry Battalion

== Regimental History and Service Record ==
* June 12, 1861 - Organized with six companies
** ? - Mustered into Confederate service
* July 21, 1861 - Battle of Bull Run, Virginia
* Spring 1862 - Reorganized
* April-May 1862 - Siege of Yorktown 
* May 7, 1862 - Eltham's Landing
* May 31-June 1, 1862 - Seven Pines
* June 25-July 1, 1862 - The Seven Days Battles before Richmond, Virginia
* June 27, 1862 - Gaines' Mill
* August 28-30, 1862 - 2nd Bull Run 
* September 14, 1862 - South Mountain
* September 17, 1862 - Battle of Antietam, Maryland
* November 11, 1862 - Two additional companies assigned from parts of the 4th South Carolina Infantry Battalion
* December 13, 1862 - Fredericksburg
* October 28-29, 1863 - Wauhatchie 
* November-December 1863 - Siege of Knoxville
* March 18, 1864 - Unit mounted
* June 1864-April 1865 - Siege of Petersburg
* September 29, 1864 - New Market Heights
* September 30, 1864 - Roper's Farm
* April 6, 1865 - Sayler's Creek
* April 9, 1865 - Appomattox Court House
** Surrendered
DESIGNATIONS
* Army of the Potomac / 1st Corps / Unattached (July 1861)
* Department of Northern Virginia / Potomac District / Unattached (October 1861)
* Department of Northern Virginia / Potomac District / Forces near Dumfries (Whiting's Command) / Hampton's Brigade (January-March 1862)
* Army of Northern Virginia / Whiting's/G.W. Smith's/Whiting's Division / Hampton's Brigade (March-June 1862)
* Department of Northern Virginia / Valley District / Whiting's Division / Texas Brigade (June 1862)
* Army of Northern Virginia / 2nd Corps / Whiting's Division / Texas Brigade (June-July 1862)
* Army of Northern Virginia / Whiting's Division / Texas Brigade (July 1862)
* Army of Northern Virginia / 1st Corps / Whiting's/Hood's Division / Texas Brigade (July-November 1862)
* Army of Northern Virginia / 1st Corps / D.R. Jones'/Pickett's Division / Jenkins' Brigade (December 1862-February 1863)
* Department of North Carolina and Southern Virginia / Pickett's Division / Jenkins' Brigade (February-April 1863)
* Department of Southern Virginia / Pickett's Division / Jenkins' Brigade (April-May 1863)
* Department of Southern Virginia / Jenkins' Brigade (May 1863)
* Department of North Carolina / Jenkins' Brigade (May-July 1863)
* Department of Richmond / Jenkins' Brigade (July 1863)
* Department of Richmond / Ransom's Division / Jenkins' Brigade (July-September 1863)
* Army of Tennessee / Longstreet's Corps / Hood's Division / Jenkins' Brigade (September-November 1863)
* Department of East Tennessee / Hood's/Field's Division / Jenkins' Brigade (November 1863-March 1864)
* Department of Richmond / Cavalry (May-June 1864)
* Department of Richmond / Gary's Cavalry Brigade (June 1864-January 1865)
* Army of Northern Virginia / Cavalry Corps / F. Lee's Division / Gary's Brigade (January-April 1865)
== Regimental Roster ==
* First Commander: Wade Hampton (III) (Colonel)
* Robert B. Arnold (Major, Lieutenant Colonel)
* James Connor (Major)
* J. Hervey Dingle (Jr.) (Major)
* Martin W. Gary (Colonel)
* James B. Griffin (Major, Lieutenant Colonel)
* Benjamin J. Johnson (Lieutenant Colonel)
* Stephen Dill Lee (Major - temporary assignment)
* Thomas M. Logan (Major, Lieutenant Colonel, Colonel)
* Benjamin E. Nicholson (Major)
== Regiment Statistical Information ==
== Legacy ==
== Notes ==
== Sources == 
* (Pages 67, 106-108)
* Simpson, Harold B., Hood's Texas Brigade: Lee's Grenadier Guard.
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