Dear Linda:

I am interested in your work. For a good many years I've been playing with the ten companies which formed the infantry of the Hampton Legion, later re-designated as the Hamtpn Legion Mounted Infantry. The 4th was as you know one of the first state units mustered into Confederate service, on 16 April 1861 if memory serves me correctly, for one year. When the unit came up for re-organization in April, 1862, many of the men refused to reenlist in the 4th, opting to join other units. A four company remnant was organized under Major C. S. Mattison as the 4th S.C. Battalion, also called the 13th S.C. Battalion. You know all this.
By the end of the summer the unit had virtually ceased to exist. Some enlisted in the 37 Virginia Cavalry Battallion -- there is a roster of that unit published in the Virginia regimental series. Two companies were formed from what was left and attached to the Hampton Legion Infantry, raising it from the strength of a battalion to aa regiment, in November, 1862. A number of those men came form the Union Church-Starr area of southwestern Anderson District. They were put in Company I of the Legion. Company I also had men from other areas of the Up-State, and became a pretty good combat company. Company K also came from the remnant of the old 4th, but its men tended to come more form the mountainous areas of Greenville and Pickens Districts. It had a fairly severe problem with absenteeism and some desertion.
If you have information beyond that which appears in Reid's book, I would be very interested. Obviously your index of the book would be very helpful to my particular field of interest, since s0o many of the old Fourth ended up in the Legion.
Warm regards, Lee