Colonel James V. Moore
June 1862 – Aug. 30, 1862
KIA @ 2nd Manassas, VA
The 2nd SC Rifles are named in his honor, Moore’s Rifles
Colonel Thomas Thomson
Sept. 1862 – Oct. 1863
Promoted to Colonel late 1862
Resigned in Oct. 1863 to serve in the SC Senate
Colonel Robert E. Bowen
Oct. 1863 – April 1865
WIA @ Wauhatchie, TN Oct. 29, 1863
One of the 12 original Board of Trustees for Clemson College. His portrait hangs in Sikes Hall on the Clemson University Campus.