Excerpt from Traditions and History of Anderson County
By Louise Ayer Vandiver
An electronic copy of the book originally published 1928. Ruralist Press, 326 pages.
© 2005 Han-Ack Publishing

The Fourth South Carolina Regiment was organized Sunday, April 14th, 1861…….In that Regiment there were three companies, composed almost entirely of Anderson (S.C.) men. The Palmetto Riflemen consisted from first to last of one hundred and forty-five men. Ten were discharged from disability, wounds o sickness, thirty were transferred to other commands, thirty-four killed in battle, fourteen died of disease while in service, thirty four were wounded more or less seriously, thirty-nine survivors surrendered at Appomattox. ……..

Anderson (S.C.) men fought at First and Second Manassas, Williamsburg, Seven Pines, Gaines’ Mill, Frazier’s Farm, Boonsboro, Sharpsburg, Fredericksburg, Chickamauga, Wilderness, Spottsylvania, Chancellorsville, Petersburg, Gettysburg, Franklin, Atlanta, Bloody Angle, The Crater, Lookout Mountain, and stood with Lee at Appomattox. ……..
(Pages 223 & 228)

The above information is posted to show the losses suffered by the Fourth S.C. Regiment from its organization until it surrendered with General Lee. Other regiments from the South likely suffered more casualties and of course there must have been some regiments that suffered less casualties. (It is unknown as to why the casualties and survivors do not total 145 men.) Anderson men appears to have fought in most of the major battles of the War Between the States.