After the Battle of Gettysburg, from mid-July until early August 1863, Schimmelfennig was moved to command a brigade in 1st Division, XI Corps. He and his brigade were reassigned to the Southern District of the Department of the South, in the Carolinas, serving on Folly Island.
Following the Battle of Gettysburg, from mid-July through early August 1863, Schimmelfennig took command of a brigade within the 1st Division of the XI Corps. His brigade was then relocated to the Southern District of the Department of the South in the Carolinas and stationed on Folly Island.