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| State ↕ | First ↕ | Last ↑ | Rank ↕ | Regiment ↕ | From ↕ | To | Notes | Battles |
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| SC | John Carroll | Adams | Lieutenant | SC Light Dragoons | 1779 | 1780 | Was Corporal and Sergeant in SC 3rd Regiment. A Lieutenant in SC Dragoons 1779-1780 under Col. Daniel Horry. 1781, under Capt. William McKenzie, Col. William Hill, rank unknown. | |
| SC | William | Adams | Wagoner | SC Light Dragoons | 1779 | From Richland District. A Wagoner under Capt. Joseph Calhoun, Col. Daniel Horry. Also served under Capt. Daniel Murphy (Hill's Regiment of Light Dragoons). Also served under Lt. Jacob Killingsworth, Lt. Reuben House, Capt. William Goodwyn, Col. Thomas Taylor (Camden District Regiment). At one time, a Lieutenant. | ||
| SC | George | Airs | Quarter Master | SC Light Dragoons | Served under Maj. Hezekiah Maham. | |||
| SC | John | Barnett | SC Light Dragoons | Before the Fall of Charleston, served under Capt. John Hampton. June 1780, served under Capt. Hugh White, Capt. John Drennan (Camden District Regiment). Next, served under Capt. Andrew Leter, Maj. Robert Lyle (Camden District Regiment). Then, served under Capt. John Cook, Col. Thomas Taylor (Camden District Regiment). | Ft. Granby, St. James Goose Creek Church, Orangeburgh, Four Holes Swamp | |||
| SC | Francis | Benoist | SC Light Dragoons | 1776 | 1782 | 1776-1778, served in various companies (unknown). 1779-1780, served under Capt. Thomas Giles, Col. Daniel Horry. 1781, reenlisted again under Capt. Thomas Giles, Lt. Col. Hezekiah Maham (SC 3rd Regiment of State Dragoons). | Stono Ferry, Siege of Savannah | |
| SC | Jasper | Billings | SC Light Dragoons | 1779 | 1783 | 1779-1780, served under Capt. John Hampton, Col. Daniel Horry. 1782, served under Lt. Col. Henry Hampton, unit unknown. Later, in Marion's Brigade, unit and dates unknown. | ||
| SC | William | Black | Captain | SC Light Dragoons | 1779 | 1781 | 1779, served under Maj. Hezekiah Maham. 1780, served under Col. Richard Richardson (Berkeley County Regiment). Mar. 1781, served under Lt. Col. Peter Horry (Horry's Light Dragoons). In Oct. 1781, this unit became the SC 4th Regiment of State Dragoons. | Wiboo Swamp, Black River Bridge, Sampit Bridge #1, Sampit Bridge #2, Fort Watson #2, Fort Motte, Quinby's Bridge, Shubrick's Plantation |
| SC | Thomas | Brough | SC Light Dragoons | 1780 | 1783 | Served under Capt. Joseph Calhoun. | ||
| SC | Alexander | Broughton | Captain | SC Light Dragoons | 1779 | 1782 | 1779-1780, a Captain under Col. Daniel Horry. 1782, also a Captain in Militia. | |
| SC | Thomas | Broughton | Lieutenant | SC Light Dragoons | 1780 | 1782 | A Lieutenant under Capt. Joseph Calhoun and Maj./Lt. Col. Hezekiah Maham, also Forage Master and Quarter Master. Killed at the battle of Wambaw Bridge. | Wambaw Bridge |
| SC | Thomas | Broughton | Quarter Master | SC Light Dragoons | 1780 | Under Maj. Hezekiah Maham, also Forage Master and Lieutenant | ||
| SC | Alexander | Broughton | SC Light Dragoons | 1779 | 1780 | Served under Col. Daniel Horry, unit unknown. Later, a Captain. | ||
| SC | Thomas | Broughton | Forage Master | SC Light Dragoons | 1779 | 1780 | A Forage Master, a QM, and a Lieutenant under Capt. Joseph Calhoun, Maj./Lt. Col. Hezekiah Maham. Dates unknown. | |
| SC | Robert | Buchanan | Sergeant | SC Light Dragoons | 1779 | 1779 | A Sergeant under Capt. John Hampton, Col. Daniel Horry. Jan-Mar 1779. | |
| SC | Jacob | Burnett | Lieutenant | SC Light Dragoons | 1779 | 1780 | A Lieutenant under Maj. Hezekiah Maham, Col. Daniel Horry. | |
| SC | Joseph | Calhoun | Captain | SC Light Dragoons | 1780 | 1782 | Entered as Lieutenant in 1779. 1781 a Captain under Maj. Hezekiah Maham. Then, a Captain in SC 3rd Regiment of State Dragoons under Lt. Col. Hezekiah Maham til the end of the war. | |
| SC | Joseph | Calhoun | Lieutenant | SC Light Dragoons | 1779 | 1780 | A Lieutenant under Maj. Hezekiah Maham, promoted to Captain in 1780. | |
| SC | Patrick Jr. | Calhoun | SC Light Dragoons | 1779 | 1783 | Served under Capt. Joseph Calhoun. | ||
| SC | John | Canternier | Captain | SC Light Dragoons | 1779 | 1780 | A Captain under Col. Daniel Horry. | |
| SC | John | Cantley | Lieutenant | SC Light Dragoons | 1779 | 1780 | Nine months as a Lieutenant under Col. Daniel Horry, then reenlisted as Sergeant for eighteen months. | |
| SC | Straughan | Conyers | SC Light Dragoons | 1779 | 1781 | 1779, served under Lt. William Robert McCottry, Lt. Anthony White, Lt. William Thompson, Capt. Benjamin Screven, Col. Daniel Horry. 1780, served under Capt. John Neilson, Col. Richard Richardson, Jr. (Berkeley County Regiment). Then, served under Capt. William Robert McCottry, Col. Archibald McDonald (Kingstree Regiment). 1781, a Cornet under Capt. William Withers, Lt. Col. Peter Horry (SC 4th Regiment of State Dragoons). aka Stran Conyers. | ||
| SC | John | Couturier | Lieutenant | SC Light Dragoons | 1779 | 1780 | Was a Captain in 1775 under Col. Richard Richardson. Later, a Lieutenant and a Captain in SC Light Dragoons under Col. Daniel Horry. | |
| SC | Joshua | Davis | SC Light Dragoons | 1779 | Served under Col. Daniel Horry, unit unknown. | |||
| SC | David | DuBois | Captain | SC Light Dragoons | 1779 | 1779 | A Captain in Dragoons. Killed at Savannah 10/9/1779 | Siege of Savannah |
| SC | Isaac | DuBose | Captain | SC Light Dragoons | 1779 | 1782 | From Chesterfield District. Earlier a Lieutenant. A Captain under Maj. Hezekiah Maham and Col. Daniel Horry 1779-1780 until the Fall of Charleston. After the Fall of Charleston he served as a Lieutenant and a Captain under Lt. Col. Peter Horry (Horry's Light Dragoons) and under Maj. Hezekiah Maham (Maham's Light Dragoons). 1782, he was a Lieutenant under Col. Hezekiah Maham (SC 4th Regiment of Light Dragoons). After the war, moved to Kershaw District then to Georgia. | |
| SC | Ephraim | Gaudy | SC Light Dragoons | 1779 | 1780 | Served under Capt. William Black and Capt. Richard Gough, Maj. Hezekiah Maham. 1780, in NC unit. | ||
| SC | Thomas | Giles | Captain | SC Light Dragoons | 1779 | 1782 | A Captain under Col. Daniel Horry. Later, a Captain under Lt. Col. Hezekiah Maham in the SC 3rd Regiment of State Dragoons. Wounded at Siege of Savannah. At Eutaw Springs. | Charleston Neck 1779, Stono Ferry, Siege of Savannah, Eutaw Springs |
| SC | Richard | Gough | Captain | SC Light Dragoons | 1779 | 1782 | First a Captain under Col. Daniel Horry. Also a Captain under Lt.Col. Peter Horry in Horry's Light Dragoons and the SC 4th Regiment of State Dragoons. | Eutaw Springs |
| SC | John | Hambleton | Sergeant | SC Light Dragoons | 1780 | 1780 | A Sergeant under Maj. Hezekiah Maham, Col. Daniel Horry during 1780. | |
| SC | Zebulon | Hollingsworth | SC Light Dragoons | 1779 | 1779 | Served under Capt. John Hampton from 2/13/1779 to 3/6/1779. | ||
| SC | Daniel | Horry | Colonel | SC Light Dragoons | 1779 | 1780 | Feb 1779, Colonel/Commandant of the newly-created SC Light Dragoons (State Troops) for 16 Months. After the Fall of Charleston, he took protection from the British, and in 1781, he sailed to England where he enrolled his son in school. The SC legislature considered confiscating his estates, but his in-laws, the Pinckneys, intervened and the legislature settled for an amercement of twelve percent. | Charleston Neck 1779, Stono Ferry, Siege of Savannah, Rantowle's Bridge, Moncks Corner |
| SC | John | Jameson | Major | SC Light Dragoons | 1779 | - | A Major under Col. Daniel Horry. | |
| SC | John | Jones | SC Light Dragoons | 1779 | Served under Capt. John Hampton. | |||
| SC | Thomas | Jones | SC Light Dragoons | 1779 | 1779 | Served under Capt. John Hampton. | ||
| SC | James | Kincaid | Captain | SC Light Dragoons | 1779 | 1780 | 1779-1780, a Captain under Col. Daniel Horry. Later, in Marion's Brigade, regiment and dates unknown. Not a captain at Cowpens or Eutaw Springs. | Cowpens, Eutaw Springs |
| SC | James | Maham | Major | SC Light Dragoons | 1779 | 1780 | Feb 1779, SC Light Dragoons (State Troops) under Col. Daniel Horry for 16 Months. | |
| SC | Edward | Malphus | SC Light Dragoons | 1780 | Served under Col. Daniel Horry, unit unknown. POW at the Fall of Charleston. Contracted smallpox and died. | Siege of Charleston 1780 | ||
| SC | William Robert | McCottry | Lieutenant | SC Light Dragoons | 1779 | 1780 | From Williamsburg District. A Lieutenant under Capt. Benjamin Screven. Later a Captain. | |
| SC | James | McDaniel | Captain | SC Light Dragoons | 1779 | 1780 | A Captain under Maj. James Maham and Col. Daniel Horry. This man is probably the same man as James McDonald below. | |
| SC | Robert | McElvy | Captain | SC Light Dragoons | 1780 | 1780 | A Captain under Maj. Hezekiah Maham during 1780. After the Fall of Charleston, a Captain under Maj. / Lt. Col. Hezekiah Maham, dates unknown. (Maham's Light Dragoons, SC 3rd Regiment of State Dragoons). | Blackstocks |
| SC | James | McGinney | Sergeant | SC Light Dragoons | 1779 | 1780 | A Sergeant under Col. Daniel Horry. | |
| SC | James | McGinney | SC Light Dragoons | 1779 | Served under Capt. John Couturier. Later, a Sergeant under Col. Daniel Horry. | Stono Ferry, Siege of Savannah | ||
| SC | Lewis | Ogier | Captain | SC Light Dragoons | 1780 | 1782 | A Lieutenant and a Captain under Col. Daniel Horry. January of 1781, junior Aide-de-Camp to Brig. Gen. Francis Marion. | |
| SC | Lewis | Ogier | Lieutenant | SC Light Dragoons | 1779 | 1780 | A Lieutenant under Col. Daniel Horry. Died 1780. One source asserts he was a Captain in Aug. 1780. | Port Royal Island #1, Siege of Savannah |
| SC | Thomas | Rice | SC Light Dragoons | 1779 | 1779 | Served under Capt. John Hampton, Col. Daniel Horry. | ||
| SC | James | Roach | SC Light Dragoons | 1779 | 1780 | Served under Maj. Hezekiah Maham, Col. Daniel Horry during 1779. 1780, served under Capt. Joseph Graves, Col. Hugh Giles (Lower Craven County Regiment). | ||
| SC | Caleb | Sap | SC Light Dragoons | 1779 | 1779 | Served under Capt. John Hampton from 2/13/1779 to 3/6/1779. | ||
| SC | Henry | Sap | SC Light Dragoons | 1779 | 1779 | Served under Capt. John Hampton from 2/13/1779 to 3/6/1779. | ||
| SC | John | Sap | SC Light Dragoons | 1779 | 1779 | Served under Capt. John Hampton from 2/13/1779 to 3/6/1779. | ||
| SC | Shadrack | Sap | SC Light Dragoons | 1779 | 1779 | Served under Capt. John Hampton from 2/13/1779 to 3/6/1779. |