Roll of South Carolina Volunteers of the Palmetto Regiment in the Mexican War, 1848

This document consists of a roll of the South Carolina volunteers who served in the Palmetto Regiment during the Mexican War. The roll list each of the eleven companies with the names of each company's officers, followed by a list of enlisted soldiers alphabetically by last name. A "K" next to a name indicates the soldier died in battle, while a "D" indicates he died of disease. At the bottom of the page are depictions of the major battles in which the Palmetto Regiment took part. Of the 1,100 men who enlisted at the beginning of the war, roughly two-thirds did not survive to the end in February 1848.