J. P. Lynch enlisted as a Private in Company D (Cross Anchors), 3rd South Carolina Infantry March 4, 186_ at Greenville,Tennessee, admitted to the Jackson Hospital, Richmond, Virginia June 3,1864, Acute Diarrhoea, transferred July 8 to Huguenotte Springs [http://manakin.addr.com/houses/hotel.htm], appears on a roll receiving clothing in October 1864, no further records
Also in Company D were T. A. Lynch, W. E. Lynch, & John F. Lynch
The 3rd South Carolina Volunteer Infantry Regiment
By: Mac Wyckoff
E-mail: mwyckoff@erols.com
The 3rd South Carolina suffered under poor leadership at the regiment and company level during the first year of the war. However, at the reorganization on May 13, 1862 the men elected James Drayton Nance as their colonel. They also elected younger and more aggressive men as their other officers at both regiment and company level. Nance, a graduate of The South Carolina Military School (now called The Citadel), brought discipline and improved the efficiency and morale of the men. Under Nance's leadership, the regiment developed into one of the real elite units of Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia. They paid a high price in casualties. A shocking 45 percent of the men did not survive the war with another 697 surviving one or more wounds. Few, in any, regiments of either side suffered more losses.
The unit was among the ten regiments organized under the direction of Governor Pickens in early 1861 as a result of act passed by the South Carolina General Assembly on December 17, 1860. The regiment was activated on April 13, 1861 and ordered to rendezvous in Columbia as quickly as possible. By April 17th, all twelve companies had arrived in Columbia. The regiment was mustered into Confederate service while at Columbia on June 6, 1861. Since Confederate regulations allowed for only ten companies, two companies joined other regiments. The regiment departed for Virginia on June 15, 1861.
The men elected James Henderson Williams as their colonel even though he was in Arkansas, He was highly respected and had military experience in both the Seminole and Mexican wars, but did not join the regiment until May 1st. A lack of testimony by the soldiers either for or against Williams makes it hard to evaluate his performance. However, a letter of April 17, 1862 from Adjutant William D. Rutherford to his brother-in-law Captain James D. Nance indicates that the regiment had serious morale problems and lacked leadership at the company. The elevation of Nance to colonel and the new leadership at the company level led to drastic improvements. Heavy losses in the regimental and company command structure during the middle and later part of the war finally caught with the unit. The death of Nance at the Wilderness on May 6, 1864 led to a rapid decline in the efficiency level.
The regiment underwent a consolidation with the 3rd South Carolina Battalion and 8th South Carolina on April 9, 1865, the day that General Lee surrendered his army at Appomattox. The regiment surrendered with general Joseph Johnston at the Bennett House near Durham, North Carolina on April 26, 1865 and the survivors were given paroles on May 2, 1865 at Greensboro, North Carolina.
Company D, Cross Anchors
This company was enrolled at Cross Anchor on April 14, 1861 and mustered into Confederate service on June 6, 1861. Was assigned as a new Company K at the consolidation on April 9, 1865. On the same day, the previous Company K combined with Company G became the new Company D. The men came from the Union and Spartanburg Districts.
Captains
Thomas Barker Ferguson-Elected April 14, 1861. Resigned at the reorganization on May 13, 1862.
F.N. Walker-Elected at reorganization on May 13, 1862. Severely wounded in arm during skirmish near Fair Oaks on June 18, 1862 and disabled. It does not appear that he returned to command the company. The records do not show anyone replacing him.
John W. Watts-Commanded the new Company D that was formed at the consolidation on April 9, 1865.
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