E.B. Brunson
Regiment Name 1st South Carolina Infantry
Side Confederate
Company B
Soldier's Rank_In 1 Sergeant
Soldier's Rank_Out 1 Sergeant
Film Number M381 roll 4
Ervin B. Brunson
Regiment Name (Pee Dee Art'y.) South Carolina Artillery
Side Confederate
Company
Soldier's Rank_In Sr. 1 Lieut.
Soldier's Rank_Out Captain
Film Number M381 roll 4
Zimmerman's Company, South Carolina Artillery (Pee Dee Artillery)
Pee Dee Light Artillery was organized during the winter of 1861-1862 with men from Florence County. After serving in the Department of Norfolk and the Department of North Carolina, it was assigned to R.L. Walker's and W.J. Pegrams's Battalion of Artillery, Army of Northern Virginia. It fought on many battlefields from the Seven Days' Battles to Mine Run, then was transferred to the Department of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida. It served at Charleston, moved ot North Carolina, wintered in Virginia, and ended the war with the Army of Tennessee assigned to B.C. Manly's Battalion of Artillery. This company lost 1 killed and 2 wounded during the Seven Days' Battles, had 65 engaged at Gettysburg, and in April, 1864, there were 2 officers and 66 men present for duty. Its commanders were Captains Ervin B. Brunson, David G. McIntosh, and William E. Zimmerman.
Brunson, J.C.
Private Corporal
Brunson, Joseph W.
Private 1 Sergeant
Brunson, W.M.
Private Bugler
Brunson, William A.
Private Private
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Ervin B. Brunson
Regiment Name 1st (McCreary's) South Carolina Infantry
Side Confederate
Company D
Soldier's Rank_In 1 Lieutenant
Soldier's Rank_Out 1 Lieutenant
Film Number M381 roll 4
1st Regiment, South Carolina Infantry (McCreary's) (1st Provisional Army)
1st Infantry Regiment, Provisional Army completed its organization at Richmond, Virginia, in August, 1861. Most of the officers and men had served in the 1st South Carolina Volunteers, a six-month command, which was mustered out of service in late July. The men were from Charleston and Columbia, and the counties of Darlington, Marrion, Horry, Aiken, and Florence. Assigned to General Gregg's and McGowan's Brigade, the unit fought with the Army of Northern Virginia from the Seven Days' Battles to Cold Harbor. It was then involved in the difficult Petersburg siege north and south of the James River and the Appomattox Campaign. This regiment lost 20 killed and 133 wounded during the Seven Days' Battles, had fifty-three percent disabled of the 283 engaged at Second Manassas and Ox Hill, and had 4 killed and 30 wounded at Sharpsburg. It sustained 73 casualties at Fredericksburg and 104 at Chancellorsville, then lost thirty-four percent of the 328 at Gettysburg. There were 16 killed, 114 wounded, and 7 missing at The Wilderness, and 19 killed, 51 wounded, and 9 missing at Spotsylvania. On April 9, 1865, it surrendered with 18 officers and 101 men. The field officers were Colonels Maxey Gregg, Daniel H. Hamilton, and Charles W. McCreary; Lieutenant Colonels T. Pinckney Alston, Andrew P. Butler, Edward McCrady, Jr., Washington P. Shooter, and Augustus M. Smith; and Major Edward D. Brailsford.
Brunson, A.
CO D Private Private
Brunson, J.W.
Co D Private Private
Brunson, W.A.
Co D Private Private
Brunson, W.D.
Co F Private Private
Brunson, W.M.
Co D Private Private