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South Carolina's Twentieth Regiment in Civil War Beginnings
A veteran recalls the formation and early actions of the Twentieth South Carolina Regiment. Officers included Colonel Lawrence M. Keitt and Lt Colonel O. M. Dantzler with Major Alfred Mimms. The unit, raised in 1861 at Camp Hampton, built from Lexington and Newberry volunteers, saw heavy action near Charleston before entering Virginia.
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Provisional Congress of the Confederate States
Montgomery
Alabama
Virginia
Kershaw
Cold
Harbor
O’elock
Boykin
Ripard
William Drayton Rutherford
S. C
Rutherford
James D. Nance
Judge Pope
South Carolina
Maxey. Gregg
Lexington
Camp Hampton
Lawrence Missilion Keit
Orangeburg
O. M. Dantzler
Alfred Mimms
R. Chisolm
Charleston
Seargeant
Jack
Wilson
John M. Kinard
Newberry
Brodie
Chaplin
Jacob Hawkins
George Sellers
Otto Heyman
Sam Dickerson
Ed Kinster
J. M. Jones
W. D. Harman
A. D. Sparks