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accepted for admission to Newberry Coliege as freshmen
next fall attended a “Get Acquainted Day” at the College
last Saturday. The high schoolers heard the Newberry
College Singers, the Stage “N” Orchestra, listened to
brief talks from students and administrators, and had
lunch with faculty members. Among those registering
for the event were, from left: Patsy Dennis, Rembert;
Cindy McCombs, Wedgefield; and Brenda Leavell, Route
1, Newebrry.
College lists
football agenda
Newberry College will play
an 11-game football schedule
this fall—the first since 1962,
according to Fred Herren, head
football coach.
The Indians will play six home
games beginning with a contest
against Emory and Henry Col
lege of Emory, Va. on Saturday,
Sept. 12. The Virginia school
has been absent from the New
berry College football schedule
since 1938. A newcomer to the
Indian slate, Samford Univer
sity of Birmingham, Ala., will
dose out the home season on
Saturday November 14.
Western Carolina University
of Cullowhee, N. C., an oppon
ent since 1960, is the only team
on last year’s schedule which
is not on the 1970 slate.
Other home games will be
against Gardner Webb, Lenoir
Rhyne, Wofford, Guilford.
Away from home grounds, the
Indians will meet Catawba, Con
cord (W. Va.), Mars Hill, Elon
and Presbyterian.
Mrs. Setzler
gives program
at UDC meet
Drayton Rutherford Chapter
of the United Daughters of the
Confederacy held the March
meeting at the home of Mrs.
Tom Fellers with Mrs. Tom Set
zler and Miss Rosabel Thomp
son as associate hostesses. De
lightful refreshments were serv
ed as the members arrived.
Mrs. E. E. Westwood presided
in the absence of the President
and led the opening ritual.
Pledges and salutes to the
Flags were led by Mrs. W. E.
Shealy. She also gave the re
port for Mrs. Baker and an
nounced plans for the Children
of the Confederacy Convention in
Newberry.
The program was given by
Mrs. Tom Setzler on ' her an
cestor. Brigadier General Paul
Quattlebaum as follows:
Paul Quattlebaum w-as born
on the 8th of July 1812 about
two miles north of the present
town of Leesville. At the age
of three, his family moved over
into the Edisto valley and set
tled at a place known as the
‘ Quattlebaums Mills” four miles
south of Leesville. Here he
grew to young manhood.
His military and public car
eer was begun at an early age
and spanned many years. At
age 18 he was elected captain
of his militia company. Soon
after his marriage he was re
quested by the Governor of S.C.
to raise a company of volun
teers for service against the
Seminole Indians of Florida.
This he did and was elected
captain of the company.
In 1836, he and his men were
mustered into federal service at
Augusta, Ga. as a part of the
First Regiment, Infantry of Bg.
Gen. Bull’s Brigade, S. C. Vol
unteers. While in Florida, Capt.
Quattlebaum and his men came
so near to capturing Osceola,
that this wily chief was able to
escape only by leaving behind
all his trappings, including a
handsome head-gear of beauti
ful ostrich plumes, a prized
trophy. Capt. Quattlebaum re
turned from Florida a very pop
ular man. In July 1839, he was
commissioned Colonel of the
15 Regiment, 3rd Brigade, S.C.
Militia and in August 1843, when
his boyhood friend, Brig. Gen.
James H. Hammond was elev
ated to the governorship of the
state, Col. Quattlebaum succeed
ed him as brigadier general of
the 3rd Brigade of Infantry, in
the second Division of South
Carolina Militia. This command
he held for ten years.
His political service approxi
mately parallels his military
career. He served in the house
as a representative from Lex
ington District from 1840 to 1843
and in the' state senate from
1848 to 1851.
As a senator, he served on
the special committee in charge
of building the state house He
was politically, an ardent nulli-
fier and in time a secessionist.
He was a member of the Se
cession Convention and a sign
er ot tne urdinance ot Seces
sion.
Age and a severe back injury
prevented field service with the
Confederate Army, but he gave
of his counsel and means, as
well as four of his seven sons;
and when the pressing need
came, he entered service with
the troops for home defense and
took part in the fighting around
Columbia. The family home,
Pinarea, was not in the line
of Sherman’s march; but, being
eager for revenge, a detach
ment of cavalry was sent, under
the command of a major, to
burn the home of this signer of
the Ordinance of Secession. The
major himself went from room
to room, occupied only by wo
men and children, and set fire
to beds and draperies, while
his men sacked the house.
Timely assistance by faithful
and devoted plantation Negroes
enabled the family to save the
house.
The General was also an in
dustrialist. The lumber from his
lumber industry was floated
down the Edisto River and mar
keted in Charleston. He installed
at this mill what is said to have
been the first water-turbine
wheel in the state and put into
operation probably the first cir
cular saw used in a saw mill
in South Carolina.
At the forks of Lightwood
Creek he constructed a modern
flour mill. The Quattlebaum
brand of flour was marketed
in Columbia and throughout cen
tral S. C. This mill, during the
war, furnished much flour for
the Confederate Army.
Gen. Quattlebaum kept his
father’s rifle works in continued
operation and the reputation of
the Quattlebaum rifle was suc
cessfully maintained. The first
percussion-cap locks in S. C.
were introduced by Gen. Quat
tlebaum and mounted by him
on gun barrels of his own make,
thus making obsolete the older
flint-and-steel locks. The gun
works operated under lease dur
ing the Confederate War and
the output went to the army.
His land holdings were exten
sive, but his plantation served
chiefly to furnish labor for his
mills and food for his stock.
Gen. Quattlebaum was well read
in both law and medicine, but
practiced neither, except as he
gave of his advice and counsel
to the many who sought it. De
voted adherence to principle,
and to what he considered to be
right, were marked character
istics of his whole life.
In early manhood he mar
ried the former Sarah Caroline
Jones, daughter of Col. Mathias
and Clara (Perry) Jones. They
became parents of ten children,
seven sons and three daughters.
Gen. Paul Quattlebaum died
at Pinarea, Oct. 18, 1890 at the
age of 78. His widow, a spright
ly little lady who never weighed
over 99 pounds, died April 19,
1908, as she approached her
93rd birthday.
A tribute to the faithful and
devoted slaves of Brigadier Gen.
Paul Quattlebaum, written by
his daughter, Olivia C. Quattle
baum Stewart, was read at the
conclusion of the program about
him. This sketch, written by
Mrs. Stewart in 1899 (at the re
quest of the Drayton Rutherford
Chapter of the U.D.C. in which
she was a member) paid honor
and praise to the “dear old
black friends” she had known
as a child and up to the age
of 19 years. At this time in
April 1865, the slaves were call
ed to “the big house” to be
informed of their emancipation
from slavery by their master,
Gen. Paul Quattlebaum.
WINS PLACE ON
DEAN'S LIST
Citadel Cadvt Lambert Ed
Chandler, son of Mr. and Mrs.
L. E. Chandler, Sr., Route 1,
achieved academic distinction
by winning a place on the mili
tary college’s Dean List.
Brig. Gen. W. E. Anderson,
academic dean, announced the
winners. Dean’s List students
must have a grade point ratio
of at least 3.0, which is the
approximate equivalent of all
B’s.
Cadet Chandler is a senior at
the military college where he
holds the rank of second lieute
nant within the S. C. Corps of
Cadets. He is enrolled in the
Army ROTC Program and was
named to the Commandant’s
Distinguished Service List.
Chandler is majoring in math
ematics at The Citadel.
WITH MEN IN
The SERVICES
CHARLESTON - Marine Cpl.
Henry L. Cannon, son of Mr.
and Mrs. John Cannon of Rt. 3,
Prosperity, reenlisted in the
Marine Corps for a period of
four years, while serving at the
Marine Barracks, Naval Wea
pons Station, Charleston.
MILTON, FLA. — Marine Lt.
William E. Murph, son of Mr.
and Mrs. T. F. Murph of 2114
Walton Way is a student Mar
ine Aviator with Training Sq.
2 at the U. S. Naval Air Station,
Whiting Field, Milton, Fla.
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