Military Service
of
BROOMs living in Fairfield County SC
during the War Between the States
Under Construction
Tree showing the Kinship of the Soldiers Below
                Charles BROOM Sr.   Dorcas POWELL
                  b.19 Dec 1784       b. 11 Feb 1792
                        |_____m. 9 Apr 1806__|
              ______________________|______________________
             |                      |                      |
  Capt. William P. BROOM     John Bunyan BROOM    Thomas Furman BROOM MD
     b. 20 May 1813            b. 31 Jan 1831         b. 7 Mar 1834
     d.  9 May 1882            d.  5 Jan 1900         d. 6 Feb 1888
    ___________|___________
   |           |           |
Samuel W.  Charles    John G. W. 
 BROOM      Powell      BROOM
b. 2 Jan    Alston     b.22 Jul
  1838      BROOM        1842
d.15 Mar   b.24 Jan    d.2 Jul 
  1925       1841        1863
           d.12 Jul   Gettysburg 
             1902         PA
People shown in red above, served in the Military Units as shown below.
Some dates are per Samuel W. BROOM's Bible
    Source 1: Bill E. BROOM's newspaper clipping lists:
    SOUTH CAROLINA 12th INFANTRY REGIMENT
    Company C
    OFFICERS: ...
      Broom, Samuel W. - Sergeant
      ...
      Broom, John W. - Corporal
      ...
    PRIVATES ...
      Broom, Charles Powell Alston*
      Broom, J. B.
      Broom, Dr. Thomas Furman ...

      *Note that Source 2 & 3 below place C. P. A. Broom in Co. B of the 7th SC Battalion rather than Co. C of the 12th Regt.  I feel certain that C. P. A. Broom was NOT in Co. C of the 12th Regt. as shown in this source.  I suspect the 7th SC Battalion might be "7TH BAT. ENDFIELD R." on the east side of the Confederate Monument in Winnsboro SC

    Source 2: Fitz Hugh McMaster's History of Fairfield County SC
    pp. 126, 131, 138-139 lists
    (from 25 May 1910 edition of The News & Herald of Winnsboro SC):
    Cedar Creek Rifle Company p. 126
    1st Corporal J. B. Broom
    5th Corporal S. W. Broom
    Pvt. J. W. Broom
    [In trying to determine if Cedar Creek Rifle Company is truely part of the 6th Regt. SCV as implied on p. 125 in the box below or is in the 12th Regt. SCV as implied by the names in Co. C. of the 12th Regt. SCV, I offer the following extracted from pages 125 - 131.
    Fairfield furnished six companies in the 6th, S. C. V., two companies in the 12th S. C. V., ... When the 6th, S. C. V. was organized Col. James H. Rion was colonel, but upon its reorganization Captain John Bratton of the Fairfield Fensibles was made colonel, ... The Sixth S. C. V. Infantry Regiment at the time of its organization in 1861 was composed of ten companies, six of which were almost wholly of Fairfield County men, the other four companies were of men almost wholly of men from Chester and Lancaster counties. The field and staff and the six companies from Fairfield at the time of the organization, as published in The News and Herald, Winnsboro, in a Memorial edition May 25, 1910 follows:
    Field and Staff Officers
    Jas. H. Rion, Colonel; ...

    [1] Cedar Creek Rifle Company ...

    [2] Boyce Guards ...

    [3] Fairfield Fencibles ...

    John Bratton, Captain; ...

    [4] Little River Guards ...

    [5] Pickens Guard ...

    [6] Monticello Guards ...

    [7] Buck Head Guards ...

    [8] Co. B, (Lyles' Rifles)

    7th S. C. Battalion as organized November, 1861 ...
    Note that there are 7 companies (not 6) before you get to a company that is obviously not part of the 6th Regt. SCV, namely Co. B of the 7th S. C. Battalion. There are 2 ways to explain this discrepancy. Maybe Pickens Guard is not to be counted among the 6 companies from Fairfield since I'd think it was from Pickens Co., but Pickens Guard could have been commissioned by (& named for) a Mr. Pickens since Pickens is a prominent SC family and thus Pickens Guard might not be from Pickens Co., but rather Fairfield and thus should be included in the 6 Fairfield companies in the 6th Regt. So, maybe the discrepancy is explained by excluding Cedar Creek Rifle Co., justifying the exclusion of Cedar Creek Rifle Co. because it seems to have became Co. C. of the 12th Regt., not the 6th Regt.  This will take considerable study to see what the right answer is.]
    Company B (Lyles' Rifles), 7th S. C. Battalion organized Nov 1861 p.131
    Pvt. C. P. A. Broom
    see newspaper clipping listing soldiers of the 7th Battalion
    living in the 9th District of Fairfield County SC    .
    Company C of 12th Regt. SCV pp. 138 - 139
    1st Sergt. S. W. Broom appointed Regt. Ordnance Sergeant
    2nd Corpl. John W. Broom, promoted to Sergeant,
          killed at Gettysburg 2 July 1863
    Pvt. Thomas Brown [actually Thomas F. Broom (as shown below)]
    Pvt. John B. Brown[actually John B. Broom (as shown below)]
    Source 3: 22 May 1912 newspaper clipping:
    "Confederate Roll of Township No. 9".
    John B. Broom, Co. C, 12th Regt;
    Thomas F. Broom, Co. C, 12th Regt;
    S. W. Broom, Co. C, 12th Regt;
    C. P. A. Broom, Co. B, 7th Batt;
    J. W. Broom, Co. C, 12th Regt;
    Source 4: The 14 Muster Rolls in my Collection of Photostats
    1. 30 Aug 1861
    Sep,Oct,Nov,Dec 1861 musters not in my collection
    2. 31Dec1861to 1 Mar 1862(Jan, Feb 62)
    Mar,Apr,May,Jun,Jul,Aug,Sep,Oct 1862
    musters not in my collection
    3. 31Oct1862to 31 Dec 1862(Nov, Dec 62)
    4. 31Dec1862to 28 Feb 1863(Jan, Feb 63)
    5. 28Feb1863to 30 Apr 1863(Mar, Apr 63)
    6. 1May1863to 30 Jun 1863(May, Jun 63)
    7. 30June1863to 31 Aug 1863 (Jul, Aug 63)
    under construction
    8. 1Sep1863to 31 Oct 1863(Sep, Oct 63)
    9. 1Nov1863to 31 Dec 1863(Nov, Dec 63)
    10. 1Jan1864to 29 Feb 1864(Jan, Feb 64)
    11. 1Mar1864to 30 Apr 1864(Mar, Apr 64)
    12. 1May1864to 31 Aug 1864(May, Jun, Jul, Aug 64)
    13. 31Aug1864to 31 Oct 1864(Sep, Oct 64)
    14. 31Oct1864to 31 Dec 1864(Nov, Dec 64)
    Jan,Feb 1865 muster not in my collection
    No Mar,Apr 1865 muster since Army surrendered Apr 9
        before 30 Apr when muster was due to be created.
Click to see more of this map, including legend & scale of miles.
Battle of Gettysburg where John G. W. Broom died 2 July 1863 in Co. C, the 12th Regt., McGowan's Brigade, Pender's Division (per paragraph 2 of Chapter 9 of the Brigade History), A.P. Hill's Corps of Lee's Army of Northern VA.
This map was scanned from Plate 43, map 1 of the Official Military Atlas of the Civil War
Government Printing Office 1891-1895
The above map was cropped from 200 dpi of map which was reduced to 1 bit (2 color) gif, then increased to 16 colors, adding colors as needed until 6 colors were used.  Some text was retyped & some was repaired.  The scale of miles was redone.  The legends & scale were moved in so that the edges could be cropped off.  All of this was done 23 & 24 Feb. 2003.  Click on the above map to see this map before it was cropped.
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