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EliiiTfi CAMPS PRESSLEY AND JAMES McCUTCHEN IN CHARLESTON. Delegates, Sponsors, Maids and others Attend the great Reunion.? Historical Sketches. The veterans and sons of vet erans of Williamsburg county are well represented in Charleston this week. Besides the regularly elected delegates, tiiere are several others, and tlie lady members of Confederate families are there in lull force. The cheap rates offered by the railroads, and the promise ot a "good" time by the c tizens ol Charleston generally acted as a great inducement for the people from all over the State to visit i he grand old city, and Williamsburg has her full quota ot the visitors. Camp Presslev, United Con federate Veterans, elected to 1 he reunion as delegates from that Camp the following members: J A McElveen, S J Taylor, William Epps,.1 A1 Footman, W J Ferrell, E M Smith, W A Flagler, ami (J .1 Graham, and besides these the commandant, D M Gordon and the chaplin. Rev. J E Dunlop, are members ex-oflicio of the Slate Camp, Miss Mary McCutdmi * JW ^JHHmlfiBH^ a^M^RD I>. E. GORDON, Commandant, Camp Press ley. was chosen as sponsor i'or the Camp, and she has selected Misses Janie Frierson and Hut tie McCuithen as her maids, who accompanied the veterans to Charleston. Cam p.James McCutehen,United Sons of Confederate Veterans, is also well represented at the reunion. The ("amp at its meet in? the first Monday in this month elected the following gentlemen to represent it in Charleston: J)i W V Brockinton, John Epp . L J Bristow, W W Grayson. S W Montgomery, J G McCutehen, aim besides these there is a large number of members of the Camp who are iii attendance upon ihe reunion. Miss Etta Jacobs was elected as the Camp's sponsor, and her maids are Misses Anna Elwelland Bessie Kellev. Perhaps it would not be ami-.* right here to give a brief histoiv of the Camps of Williamsburg county, so from the data in oui possession, we will give the fol %r | E. P. MONTGOMERY, Adjutant, Camp Pressley. lowing: Camp Pressley was organize the first Monday in April, 1S0( upon the call of Messrs. M . Hirsch and C Logan. Mr. Ilirsc was chosen as temporary commar Ik' i * dant of the organization, and Mr. Charles Lesesne acted as ternpoj rarv adjul mt. '242 names ot gal- j j lant ex-Confederates were enrolled at the organization, an4 fine have bec-n added since that time. The Camp was named "IVessley" in honor ot a distinguished gentleman <i this co.intv by that name. When the permanent organization was entered into, Mr. J) E i Gordon was chosen as comnianjdant oi the Camp, and he ha> faithfully and efficiently discharged the du'ies perlatninj: to tlie office ever since. Mr. EE Mont i yomery was elected adjutant, and < the Camp has heen well plea-? ! with I lis manner of diseharirin:: i the duties iiertainini: to the office MISS MARY MCCt TCJIKX, SjK?nsor, Camp I'tvsslev. 1?4 *4 K ? -? w/\l Kim 1:11 \rxv Mill II ll<1> ICUIIiR'U lllll! mi n>?. . J lie other officers elected .it the organization were as follows: 1st. I (Mitenant commander, James McCutchen. 2nd Lieutenant cornman er, S J Snowden, chaplain, J E Dunlop, quartermaster, J E McKlveen, surgeon. W L Wallace. Since its organization the Camp has lost three members by death, as follows: James McCutchen, K B McClarv and S J Jordan. The following sketch of the gentlemen for whom the Camp wrs named was furnished us by the adjutant of the Camp: r , I.K.. /> 1 > jjipurr v oi. iMuiuTTnvysTv^ horn in this county about fifty-six years a<;o, and died in the State of California about three years a<:o. He v.;n a gallant Con led' "T ua T T P<FSVP. . Commandant, Camp James M<Cutelien. -.'rate soldier, nn eminent jurist and a high-toned gentleman. He entered the Confederate army at the beginning of* the hostilities as captain of the Wee Nee volunteers and was ofterwards promoted to a Lieutenant-Colonelcy, in which capacity he served over the 21th South Carolina volunteers until the close of the war. His record as a soldier is one of which any 1 one might well be proud. After the war Col. Pressley practiced law in Kingstree for some years, when he moved with his family to California, where he at once won a place in the ranks of the foremost men of fhat State. He was " elected to one after another high ^ office there until he was finally > elected to a judgeship, which posij sition he occupied at the time of ^ his death. All of Williamsburg ( county has every reason to be / proud of this ?rnl I ant soldier, and it was a lining tribute to his mem ory that the Camp of veterans| should have been uiven his name. | <'ainp James McCutehen was) organized last November, as is well known by those who were in the court house when Col. James Armstrong delivered his lecture there. The organization of this Camp was the outcome of a do cided effort on the part of the County Record, whose editor and Mr. W V' (Jaayson issued I lie call - '<?!' Ihe sens c?tveterans to meet j 'or the purpose of organizing such j i Cainp. At the preliminary I meet inn. Mr. (Jia\son was elected as commandant. When the organization was made permanent the following officers were elected ( onimandant, Charles I Lesesne, Lieutenant commandants, Hugh McCutchen and A M Cordon, adjutant. L J Hristow, Surgeon, L B Johnson, (j iiar'ermaster, .M A Thomas, chaplain, W i) .Moorer, treasurer. A It Lesesne, color s; r_ri a r, :viii?T.-\ iiismwiiiii, i K C Ej>j>s. All <>; Ilie?e are <lill LOT IS J. Bill STOW. Adjutant,t amp J ami's McOutchcn. serving except ilie treasurer, who resigned at the last meetinir, and Mr EC Ej)jis was elected to succeed him The membership of the (.'amp is larsre, bnt not neariv as large a-? that of I he Camp of veterans. Qui'e a number of applications have been received nr.r.wiiy-ilinn_ and now >IIICU I IIV. WI^IMl.w , ones are considered al eveiy meeting. The Camp was named after the late Col. James McCutchon, who died Sept. 26, last. Col. McCntehen was one of the bravest soldiers who enlisted from this county. lie entered the Stale service July 15.1861, as first lieutenant of the Williamsburg rilles; entered the Confederate service August 22, ihe same year as lirst lieutenant, company G.Ivershaw's brigade, 15th JL)e<aussure regt. j ' . . X ??r~ :~=~1 MISS ETTA JACOBS, Sponsor, Camp James McCutchen, I Was promoted to the captaincy of 'company I), same regiment, Dec. 5, *01. lie was later appointed lieutenant-colonel. lie was present at the following celebrated battles: Chancellorsville, the Wilderness, Petersburg, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, Chicamauga, besides many others and was a very distinguished fighter. 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