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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 13. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Gregg's brigade of South Carolinians in the Second. Battle of Manassas. (search)
corps the State was represented by Jenkins's and Evans' brigade, the Hampton Legion, then in Hood's brigade, and the Fifteenth regiment, and James's battalion in Drayton's brigade. And well did they maintain her fame. I cannot now be the historian of their deeds, and of the prominent part they, too, bore in the great battle of Manassas, this brigade would have had present 1,589. Evans, 2,200, Reports A. N. V., volume II, page 290. Hampton Legion (estimate) 300, General T. M. Logan. Drayton's brigade, Fifteenth regiment, 415, James's battalion, 160 equals 575. Major H. E. Young, Acting Assistant-General Drayton's brigade, from field returns, SepteActing Assistant-General Drayton's brigade, from field returns, September 11, 1862. Of the 7,786 casualties in the army as above, 1,749 occurred in the South Carolina regiments as follows: Gregg's brigade lost 619, Jenkins, 404, Evans, 631, Hampton Legion, 74, and the Fifteenth regiment 21, equals 1,749. South Carolina thus lost more than one-fourth, or two out of every seven of all her troops pres