1st South Carolina Infantry (McCreary's) (1st Provisional Army)

Lt. Henry Christian Heise was my Great Great Grandfather.

Civil War, Confederate Service records are from National Archives Microfilm at S. C. Archives. Enlisted 8-1-1863, Served in Co. J, 5th Regiment, S. C. State Troops 1863-1864 and later reenlisted 3-2-1864 in Co. K, 1st McCrearys S. C. Infantry, 1864 S. C. Provisional Army, 1900 Census S. C. show a 2nd marriage to Jodie. 1860 Census Household ID 1188 GS Film Number 805222 Digital Folder Number 005171222 Image Number 00158 1880 Census Household ID 13868947 GS Film Number 1255233 Digital Folder Number 005162336 Image Number 00759

Julius was born in 1839 in Barnwell District, South Carolina. He is on the 1860 census as 21 y/o, the Post Office is at Williston. He has 25 cards in his archival file. He enlisted 13 July 1861 at Williston in 1st Regt SC Infantry [McCreaery's ] 1st Provincial Army. It is 500 miles to rendezvous as his regiment is in Va. 13 Feb 1864 his is given a 21-day indulgence leave. 10 May 1864 he is admitted to hospital at Farmville Va. with a gunshot wound. He is returned to duty on 13 June 1864. On 16 Sept 1864 he is sick in the hospital at Jackson Hospital at Richmond suffering from dysentery. He is taken as POW at Burkeville and sent to City Point Va. and released 21 June 1865. Battles, Seven Days, Cold Harbor, 2nd Manassas, Ox Hill aka Chantilly, Antietam aka Sharpsburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Spotsylvania, He was the father-in-law of my 1st cousin 3 x removed. His death date is given as before 1900. May God rest his soul.

Pvt John Griffin Thomas enlisted July, 1861, at age 18 in Newberry, SC. He was assigned to Company B, 1st SC Regiment (Provisional). He was wounded at 2nd Manassas, Va. John Griffin Thomas qualified for acceptance into the well-known unit called 'Lee's Sharpshooters' commanded by Major W S Dunlop. In late June of 1864 Pvt Thomas was mortally wounded in Petersburg at the Jerusalem Plank Road encounter. He later died in the Petersburg General Hospital on the 3rd of July. NOTE: Should anyone have access to any resources that would give the location of Pvt Thomas' grave I would deeply appreciate that information.

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Joseph was born in 1841 in Darlington District, SC. where he enlisted in Sept 1861 in Co D 1st SC Infantry [1st SC Provisional Army. Serving under Capt's McCreary and D.G McIntosh. aka [Pee Dee Rifles] This unit became a part of the [Siege Train] defending Charleston SC. He is related to me by marriage.

Jacob enlisted at Darlington, Darlington Co. SC on 15 August 1861. . Enlisted by Capt. McIntosh. Into Capt. D. G McIntosh's Co. 1st Regt. SC. Vol's aka Pee Dee Rifles. Jacob was about 28 years old. This unit became Co D McCreary's Regt. SC Infantry. On 25 June 1862 he was admitted to the Episcopal Church Hospital with a dx of Typhoid Fever. He was moved to the CSA South Carolina Hospital at Petersburg where he died on 4 July 1862. Deo Vindice

Enlisted in Horry District, SC in early 1861. Died in Hospital in 1862 from disease.

Enlisted in Horry District, SC in early 1861. Served throughout the war.

Corporal Waterman Grainger is my Great, Great, Great Grandfather on my mother's side. The chart is as follows: My Great Grandmother's name is: Lennie Joanna Grainger Gerrald. Her father was Curtis Leonard Grainger, who's father was Waterman Grainger.

Corp. Waterman Grainger is buried at Antioch Baptist Church, Horry, SC (Aynor). As far as I can tell not related to him, but by association with family members.

Buried at Centenary Meth. Church, Marion, SC. One of 4 brothers that served in the WBTS.

Killed at Battle of Sharpsburg, VA on 9-17-1862. He is most likely buried at Washington Confederate Cemetery, Hagerstown, Maryland.

Buried at Magnolia Cem., Charleston, SC. One of 4 brothers that served in the WBTS. From Marion, SC.

Lt. William W. Lowrimore 1829-1867 enlisted in Conwayboro SC with Co F, 1st SC Inf., CSA. He married Mary Julia Ann Paul 1836-1968 of Horry, SC. He is buried in a wilderness cemetery in the Dongola section of Horry, SC now lost. He is my ancestor via his daughter, Annie Julia Lowrimore Todd 1861-1929.

Enlisted as a private and later became Sergeant. Born 1831 Died 1892