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4th South Carolina Cavalry

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Muster In: Organized by the consolidation of the 10th and 12th Virginia Cavalry Battalions to a regiment on December 16, 1862.1
Muster Out: April 26, 18652

Commander(s):
Colonel Benjamin H. Rutledge
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Lieutenant Colonel William Stokes
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Captain John C. Calhoun
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Captain J. C. Foster
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Commander 5
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First Offensive Order of Battle: Butler’s Brigade | Hampton’s Division | Cavalry Corps | Army of Northern Virginia | Confederate Army3

  • Commander: Captain John C. Calhoun (at least until June 18, 1864)4
  • Unit Strength:
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Second Offensive Order of Battle: Butler’s Brigade | Hampton’s Division | Cavalry Corps | Army of Northern Virginia | Confederate Army5

  • Commander: Colonel Benjamin H. Rutledge6
  • Unit Strength:
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Third Offensive Order of Battle: Butler’s Brigade | Hampton’s Division | Cavalry Corps | Army of Northern Virginia | Confederate Army7

  • Commander: Colonel Benjamin H. Rutledge8
  • Unit Strength:
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Fourth Offensive Order of Battle: Dunovant’s Brigade | Butler’s Division | Cavalry Corps | Army of Northern Virginia | Confederate Army9

  • Commander: Colonel Benjamin H. Rutledge10
  • Unit Strength:
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Fifth Offensive Order of Battle: Dunovant’s Brigade | Butler’s Division | Cavalry Corps | Army of Northern Virginia | Confederate Army11,12

  • Commander:
    • Colonel Benjamin H. Rutledge (September 1864)(at least September 30, 1864)13,14
    • Lieutenant Colonel William Stokes15
  • Unit Strength: 204 officers and men PFD (September 30, 1864)16
  • Weapons: Enfield and Springfield Rifles17

Sixth Offensive Order of Battle: Dunovant’s Brigade | Butler’s Division | Cavalry Corps | Army of Northern Virginia | Confederate Army18

  • Commander:
    • Colonel Benjamin H. Rutledge (also commanded Dunovant’s Brigade at times)19
    • Lieutenant Colonel William Stokes (also commanded Dunovant’s Brigade at times)20
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Seventh Offensive Order of Battle: Dunovant’s Brigade | Butler’s Division | Cavalry Corps | Army of Northern Virginia | Confederate Army21,22

  • Commander:
    • Colonel Benjamin H. Rutledge (commanded the Brigade on at least November 17, 1864) (November 1864)23
    • Lieutenant Colonel William Stokes (November 1864)24
    • Captain J. C. Foster (December 1864),25
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Eighth Offensive Order of Battle: Dunovant’s Brigade | Butler’s Division | Cavalry Corps | Army of Northern Virginia | Confederate Army26

  • Commander:
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  • Note: Butler’s Division was ordered to South Carolina on January 19, 1865.27,28

Ninth Offensive Order of Battle:

  • No longer at the Siege of Petersburg.29

Dyer’s/Sifakis’ Compendium Info:
Siege of Petersburg Battles30:

  • Petersburg Siege (June 1864-April 1865)
  • Vaughan Road ((October 1, 1864)

Bibliography:

    Siege of Petersburg Documents Which Mention This Unit:

    Sources:

    1. Compendium of the Confederate Armies: South Carolina and Georgia by Stewart Sifakis, pp. 42-43 ↩
    2. Compendium of the Confederate Armies: South Carolina and Georgia by Stewart Sifakis, pp. 42-43 ↩
    3. The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1: The Army of Northern Virginia by F. Ray Sibley, Jr., p. 113 ↩
    4. The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1: The Army of Northern Virginia by F. Ray Sibley, Jr., p. 113 ↩
    5. The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1: The Army of Northern Virginia by F. Ray Sibley, Jr., p. 113 ↩
    6. The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1: The Army of Northern Virginia by F. Ray Sibley, Jr., p. 113 ↩
    7. The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1: The Army of Northern Virginia by F. Ray Sibley, Jr., page 123 ↩
    8. The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1: The Army of Northern Virginia by F. Ray Sibley, Jr., page 123 ↩
    9. The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1: The Army of Northern Virginia by F. Ray Sibley, Jr., page 132 ↩
    10. The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1: The Army of Northern Virginia by F. Ray Sibley, Jr., page 132 ↩
    11. The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1: The Army of Northern Virginia by F. Ray Sibley, Jr., page 140 ↩
    12. Sommers, Richard J. “Grant’s Fifth Offensive at Petersburg: A Study in Strategy, Tactics, and Generalship.  The Battle of Poplar Spring Church, the First Battle of the Darbytown Road, the Second Battle of the Squirrel Level Road, the Second Battle of the Darbytown Road (Ulysses S. Grant, Virginia).” Doctoral Thesis. Rice University, 1970. Print. p. 1310. ↩
    13. The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1: The Army of Northern Virginia by F. Ray Sibley, Jr., page 140: Sibley could find no reason why Rutledge was absent. ↩
    14. Confederate Inspection Report 3-P-24: Butler’s Cavalry Brigade, September 30, 1864; Inspection Reports and Related Records Received By the Inspection Branch in the Confederate Adjutant and Inspector General’s Office. (National Archives Microfilm Publication M935, Roll 10: Inspection Reports P-12 – 39-P-24); War Department Collection of Confederate Records, Record Group 109; National Archives Building, Washington, D.C. ↩
    15. The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1: The Army of Northern Virginia by F. Ray Sibley, Jr., page 140: Sommers indicated Stokes commanded the regiment in late September 1864.  Sibley could find no reason why Rutledge was absent. ↩
    16. Confederate Inspection Report 3-P-24: Butler’s Cavalry Brigade, September 30, 1864; Inspection Reports and Related Records Received By the Inspection Branch in the Confederate Adjutant and Inspector General’s Office. (National Archives Microfilm Publication M935, Roll 10: Inspection Reports P-12 – 39-P-24); War Department Collection of Confederate Records, Record Group 109; National Archives Building, Washington, D.C. ↩
    17. Confederate Inspection Report 3-P-24: Butler’s Cavalry Brigade, September 30, 1864; Inspection Reports and Related Records Received By the Inspection Branch in the Confederate Adjutant and Inspector General’s Office. (National Archives Microfilm Publication M935, Roll 10: Inspection Reports P-12 – 39-P-24); War Department Collection of Confederate Records, Record Group 109; National Archives Building, Washington, D.C. ↩
    18. The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1: The Army of Northern Virginia by F. Ray Sibley, Jr., page 150 ↩
    19. The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1: The Army of Northern Virginia by F. Ray Sibley, Jr., page 150 ↩
    20. The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1: The Army of Northern Virginia by F. Ray Sibley, Jr., page 150 ↩
    21. The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1: The Army of Northern Virginia by F. Ray Sibley, Jr., page 159 ↩
    22. The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1: The Army of Northern Virginia by F. Ray Sibley, Jr., page 168 ↩
    23. The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1: The Army of Northern Virginia by F. Ray Sibley, Jr., page 159 ↩
    24. The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1: The Army of Northern Virginia by F. Ray Sibley, Jr., page 159 ↩
    25. The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1: The Army of Northern Virginia by F. Ray Sibley, Jr., page 168 ↩
    26. The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1: The Army of Northern Virginia by F. Ray Sibley, Jr., page 177 ↩
    27. The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Volume XLVI, Part 2 (Serial Number 96), page 1101 ↩
    28. Compendium of the Confederate Armies: South Carolina and Georgia by Stewart Sifakis, pp. 42-43: Further research is needed. ↩
    29. Compendium of the Confederate Armies: South Carolina and Georgia by Stewart Sifakis, pp. 42-43 ↩
    30. Compendium of the Confederate Armies: South Carolina and Georgia by Stewart Sifakis, pp. 42-43 ↩

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