Garden's Company, South Carolina Light Artillery (Palmetto Light Battery)

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Companies in this Regiment with the Counties of Origin
Men often enlisted in a company recruited in the counties where they lived though not always. After many battles, companies might be combined because so many men were killed or wounded. However if you are unsure which company your ancestor was in, try the company recruited in his county first.

Source Material

 * | Footnote.com, (accessed 26 Mar 2011). (A subscription website, but is available for use at the Family History Library and some Family History Centers). It has digital Civil War soldier service records and brief regiment histories (located at the bottom of some of the muster rolls).
 * Dedmondt, Glenn Southern Bronze : Capt. Garden's (S.C.) Artillery Company During the War Between the States   (Columbia, South Carolina : Palmetto Bookworks, c1993), 255 pages. Book at  and Other Libraries.
 * Andrews, Robert W. The Life and Adventures of Capt. Robert W. Andrews, of Sumter, South Carolina : extending over a period of 97 years : replete with startling situations and interesting incidents. Together with reminiscences of the War of 1812, and the recent unpleasantness between the North and South   ( Boston : Printed for the author by E.P. Whitcomb, 1887), 87 pages. Book at WorldCat.org.