Books about Pickens Co., SC in the War Between the States

(American Civil War)

Orr's Rifles

General Reading

• The History of a Brigade of South Carolinians by J. F. J. Caldwell
• Southern Historical Society Papers Orr's South Carolina Rifles, Vol 27, 1899 by J. W. Mattison

Rosters

• Rebels in Gray, Soldiers from Pickens District 1861-65 by Louise Bell (Company Command, A, C, E, F, L)
• Pee Dee Light Artillery, Roster of Company H by Joseph W. Brunson
• Recollections and Reminiscences 1861-65 Volumes I-VII by the the United Daughters of the Confederacy
  • History of Regiment, Vol. II, page 2
  • History of, Vol. III, page 39
  • History of, Vol. III, page 474
  • Conner Letters, 158 pages, Vol. II page 5
  • Officer’s of Orr’s, Vol. VII, page 263
  • Co. C, Vol. VI, page 58
  • Co. F, Roster, Vol. VI, page 78
  • Co. F, Roster, Vol. II, page 559
  • Co. K, Vol. V, Page 546
  • Co. L, Vol. VII, page 268

Moore's Rifles

General Reading

• History of Anderson County (Partial Rosters, Companies F & G) by L. A. Vandiver

Rosters

• Rebels in Gray, Soldiers from Pickens District 1861-65 by Louise Bell (Companies B, C, D, H, K)
• Recollections and Reminiscences 1861-65 Volumes I-VII by the the United Daughters of the Confederacy
  • Lt. Col. D.L. Donald Co. F Second Rifles, Vol. V, page 490
  • Co. C, Roster, Vol. II, page 562
  • Co. E, Roster Vol. II, page 556
  • Co. F, Roster Vol. II, page 553
  • Co. F, Roster Vol. V, page 537
  • Co. G, Roster, Vol. V, page 538

The Fourth South Carolina

General Reading

• Fourth S. C. Vols., Sloan's by Ron Field
• The Palmetto Riflemen by James A. Hoyt (Co. B, Fourth Regiment, C. S. Vols.; Co. C, Palmetto Sharpshooters)
• Camp Life of a Confederate of Bratton's Brigade of Longstreet's Corps by Richard Lewis
• History of the 4th Regiment of South Carolina Volunteers by Jesse Walton Reid

Rosters

• Rebels in Gray, Soldiers from Pickens District 1861-65 by Louise Bell (Co. B, E, H, I)
• History of Anderson County (Partial Rosters Company B, C, and D) by L. A. Vandiver
• Recollections and Reminiscences 1861-65 Vol I & II (Company K) by the United Daughters of the Confederacy
• Recollections and Reminiscences 1861-65 Volumes I-VII by the United Daughters of the Confederacy
  • Co. B, Roster, Palmetto Riflemen, Vol. V, page 535
  • Co. D, Roster, Vol. V, page 541
  • Co. I, Roster, Ft. Hill Guard, Vol. II, page 560
  • Co. J, Roster, Vol. VII, page 267

Secondary Source

• The Struck Eagle: A Biography of Micah Jenkins and a History of the Fifth South Carolina Volunteers and the Palmetto Sharpshooters (Rosters) by James J. Baldwin III

The Twelfth South Carolina Volunteers

General Reading

• The History of a Brigade of South Carolinians by J. F. J. Caldwell

Rosters

• Rebels in Gray, Soldiers from Pickens District 1861-65 by Louise Bell (Companies G and K)
• Recollections and Reminiscences 1861-65 Volumes I-VII by the United Daughters of the Confederacy
  • Palmer Rifles, Roster, Vol. II, page 565
  • Co. H, Rosters, Vol. VI, page 457

First South Carolina Cavalry

General Reading

• Crumbling Defenses or Memoirs and Reminiscences of John Logan Black by Eleanor D. McSwain
• Southern Historical Society, Vol. 16 Charge of Black's Cavalry at Gettysburg by P. J. Malone

Rosters

• Rebels in Gray, Soldiers from Pickens District 1861-65 by Louise Bell (Company F)

Second South Carolina Cavalry

General Reading

• Autobiography of Arab by Prioleau Henderson
• Giant in Grey by Manley Wellman

Rosters

• Recollections and Reminiscences 1861-65 Volume II by the United Daughters of the Confederacy (Company I, page 584)

Fifth Cavalry

General Reading

• Butler and His Cavalry: 1861-1865 by U. R. Brooks
• Stories of the Confederacy by U. R. Brooks
• My Dear Mother and Sisters, Civil War Letters of Captain A. B. Mulligan, Company B, Fifth South Carolina, Butler's Division, Hampton's Corp, 1861-65 by Olin Hutchinson

Rosters

• Recollections and Reminiscences 1861-65 Volumes I-VII by the United Daughters of the Confederacy
  • Co. A, Roster, Vol. VII, page207
  • Co. D, Roster, Vol. II, page 603
  • Co. K, Roster, Vol. II, page 602
  • Co. D, Vol. V, page 289
  • Co. K, Vol. V, page 291

Hampton Legion

• The Hampton Legion, Part I by Ron Field
• The Hampton Legion, Part II by Ron Field

Pickens and South Carolina in Reconstruction

General Reading

• A Union Officer in Reconstruction by J. W. Deforest
• Negro Militia and Reconstruction by Otis Singletary
• Ousting the Carpetbagger from South Carolina by Henry Thompson
• After Slavery, The Negro in South Carolina During Reconstruction, 1861-1877 by Joel Williamson