Published 1st South Carolina Captain Robert A. Hawthorn Grouping CDV, 1/6 Ambro

Published in Military Imaged 1st South Carolina “Orr’s Rifles” Captain Robert A. Hawthorn Grouping CDV, 1/6 Ambrotype and Tintype of Father. The CDV of Captain Hawthorn shows a gorgeous SC palmeto on his hat with a Masonic badge in the front. This image was published in Military Images November- December 1988. The CDV has a Quinby & Co Charleston SC. There is also a 1/6th Plate Ambrotype of Captain Hawthorn in Uniform. By flipping the image over using a magnifying device you are able to see SC palmetto buttons adding to the already amazing image! Lastly is a photo of Captain Hawthorn’s father in a tintype with a Columbia SC backmark. Robert sadly was killed  in Action at the Battle of Gaines Mills  in Virginia on June 27, 1862.
1st South Carolina “Orr’s Rifles”
Confederate Captain 
Robert A. Hawthorne
The number of volunteer companies for Orr’s Regiment of Rifles was so large towards the close of the year that a Battalion was formed from them on Sullivan’s island in December, viz: the First Battalion of Rifles, Lieut. Col. Jno. V. Moore, Major Thos. H. Boggs.
Its members were recruited in the counties of Abbeville, Pickens, Anderson, and Marion. The unit was first stationed on Sullivan's Island and called by the other troops "The Pound Cake Regiment" because of its light duty. Then in April, 1862, it moved to Virginia with 1,000 men. Assigned to General Gregg's and McGowan's Brigade, it fought with the army from the Seven Days' Battles to Cold Harbor . Later the regiment endured the hardships of the Petersburg trenches and the Appomattox operations. Of the 537 engaged at Gaines' Mill , fifty-nine percent were killed, wounded or missing. The unit reported 116 casualties at Second Manassas and 170 at Fredericksburg , then lost forty-nine percent of the 233 at Chancellorsville and three percent of the 366 at Gettysburg . There were 12 killed and 81 wounded at The Wilderness , 15 killed, 36 wounded, and 44 missing at Spotsylvania , 3 killed and 34 wounded at Deep Bottom , and 9 killed and 37 wounded at Poplar Springs Church . It surrendered 9 officers and 148 men.