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    1st South Carolina Rifle Regiment Company C: "The Mountain Boys"

    1st South Carolina Rifle Regiment Company C: "The Mountain Boys"

    On 20 July 1861, James Lawrence Orr organized the First South Carolina Rifle Regiment at Sandy Springs. Ten companies were recruited, one of these being C Company which had been nicknamed "The Mountain Boys." First posted to Sullivan's Island, SC to defend Charleston Harbor, others called them the "Pound Cake Regiment" in reference to their "light" garrison duty. Then, in April 1862, the full-strength 1,000-man unit was transferred to Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia. In June, it was incorporated into Gregg's Brigade, of A.P. Hill's Light Division, of Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson Corps (often termed the "Left Wing" early in the war). By the end of the war the 1st South Carolina Rifle Regiment had taken part in numerous battles, and the loyal service of those courageous men had become the stuff of legend.

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    If you'd like to join the Mountain Boys, contact me on the forum here or you can hit me up on Steam! My username in both instances is: CRA$H

    YEE-HAW!!

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    Congrats and welcome to the CSA boys!


    And a second company of the 1st SC Rifles for the Light Division.

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    The First Battalion of Volunteer Virginians salutes you boys. We wish you the best of luck in the coming war - y'll South Carolinian boys will give those Federal boys an ass whoopin'.

    Godspeed and the best of luck,




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