Lukasz:

I can only speak for the Hampton Legion. The man yo list as "Poias" is actually John E. Poyas.

The information I have on him is as follwois:

John Ernest Poyas. Original PVT in Comapny A, mustered into Confederate service at Camp Hampton, Columbia, S. C. on 14 Jun 1861, age 44. He is shown as present on all muster rolls from the time of enlistment until he was discharged overage on 5 Sept 1862, at Leesburg, Va. At the battle of Second Manassas, he assisted in turning a captured four-gun battery on the Federals near the Chinn House on the late afternoon of 30 Aug 1862. At the time of his discharge, $12 (equivalent to a little over a month's pay, since privates in the infantry only earned $11 per month) was deducted from his pay to reimburse the government for two pair of shoes and two pair of pants drawn form the quartermaster. He is shown as a clerk on the 1860 Census, living in St. Thomas Parish, Charleston District. He was born in 1817, and died in Charleston of anemia on 16 Jan 1889. He is buried in Summerville Cemetery, Dorchester County.

One Pole whom you need to include is David Blankensee. Blankensee enlisted at Camp Hampton, Columbia, in Company A of the Hampton Legion Infantry on 26 June 1861. He was Killed in action near the Robinson House early on themroning of July 21, 1861, shot in the head and breast, and apparently killed instantly. He was buried on the field where he fell. Sources describe him as a "young Pole." He was a resident of Barnwell District, South Carolina. I am certain that he was a recent immigrant to South Carolina, and was a Polish Jew. Although he was apparently working in Barnwell, he would have been a memeber of one of the Jewish congregations in Charleston, which would account for his enlistment in this company which was composed primarily of Charlestonians.

Information to follow on Julius Sosnowski. His mother operated a fashionable girls school near Columbia, knwon as "Madame Sownowski's School." He was not a member of the Hampton Legion, but served as a staff officer with Gary's Cavalry brigade in 1864-65. The Legion Infantry, which by that stage in the war was mounted as mounted infantry, was a part of this brigade, and Martin W. Gary, the brigade commander, had risen from the rank of Captain in the Legion to that of Colonel, bnefore he was promted to brigadier and assigned to command of the Cavalry Brigade.

Lee