Trivia 2-27-20 Changes

[captaindrew]

They changed their name to the Emerald Guards and became a company in the 1st Regiment South Carolina Rifles AKA Branch's Rifle Regiment

 

[Stone in the wall]

Irish Volunteers
Co K 1st South Carolina Infantry (Greggs brigade)

 

[ErnieMac]

What did they change their name to? Irish Volunteers.
What SC unit did they become a part of? Compank K, Gregg's 1st South Carolina Infantry.

Another “Lost Cause”: The Irish in the South Remember the Confederacy

“As there had been only two prominent Irish generals, and only one, Cleburne, had had a very distinguished record, the story of the common soldier was the story of the Irish Confederate.

www.southerncultures.org

 

[sarladaise]

The Emerald Light Infantry was part of Co. K, Gregg's First South Carolina Volunteers

Castle Pinckney – Bull Runnings

Posts about Castle Pinckney written by Harry Smeltzer

bullrunnings.wordpress.com

 

[1mommimi]

was he a trader

 

[1mommimi]

blood ....i cant think of it ,

 

[1mommimi]

wad it ireland

Edit - Not sure what you were thinking about with the previous two posts, but I take this as your final answer.

Unfortunately, it is incorrect. I'm accepting either "Irish Volunteers" or "Emerald Guard," but they didn't refer to themselves simply as "Ireland." Even if they did, the answer fails to specify any unit to which they belonged.

hoosier

 

[lelliott19]

Emerald Light Infantry
1st Regiment South Carolina Vols
Source footnote page 120

 

[ami]

Answer - Emerald Light Infantry, Company K, 1st South Carolina Infantry
https://bullrunnings.wordpress.com/2015/03/06/a-new-flag-flies-over-castle-pinckney/

Edit - Various sources give the name as Emerald Guards, Emerald Light Infantry, Irish Volunteers, or Irish Volunteers for the War. I am accepting any of those as a correct answer to the first part of the question.

And various sources indicate that they were part of the 1st South Carolina, the 17th South Carolina, or the 27th South Carolina. I am accepting any of those as a correct answer to the second part of the question. (I consider the regiment to be a sufficient identification of the unit and am not requiring that a correct answer specify the company. If the questioner had intended that an answer should specify the company, that should have been made clearer.)

hoosier