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The Invincible Twelfth: The 12th South Carolina Infantry of the Gregg-McGowan Brigade, Army of Northern Virginia (Cwayna - CA) hancock an inexperienced and sometimes poorlyby Benjamin L. Cwayna At a regimental reunion in 1880, former Confederate Brigadier General Samuel McGowan lauded the 12th South Carolina Infantry as The finest of that immortal army, foremost in the charge, and the invincible Twelfth. The 12th regiment was part of McGowans Brigade from early 1863 through the end of the war. The aging brigadier, wounded four times in combat, was an authority on the regiments reputation. It would be impossible on an