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ms. . ? fc " 4 ' . PART II. PAGES 9 XO 16 HI THE UNION TIMES M '== ?= VOL. LXIV. NO. 19. UNION, S. ., FRIDAY, MAY 8, 1914. #1.00 A YEAR. THE The Rosters of all the or Died From Sicknesi Heroes Will Be Sough Published in Book For LIST OF COMPAN1 juisi ot companies from Union county as far as we have be-.?n able to trace them. 1st Regiment S. C. Vol. Col. Maxcy Gregg. "The Minute Men"?Co. E. Capt. James M. Gadherry. 5th Regiment S. C. V. Col. Micah Jenkins. ^ Johnson Rifles?Co. A. Capts. John Wesley Goss, C. L. Beaty, Richard C. Johnson. , Tiger River Volunteers?Co. D or Goshen Hill Co. t Capts. John R. R. Giles, James T. Douglass. Pea Ridge Volunteers?Co. E. Capts. W. T. L. Glenn, Jas. B. Steadman. / ?? I Mr '"Vi i ; I . | ! 1^1Sl,BI ] M ? L % , IfflBEi V^L fo-^iin " P; IhB^ lj|MBB8a r,x II Iv , ^T i9'vfi^l 1 ? m ] WPSlPprl' || Jm I t \?sstii j i OgHMHlHgJ | CAPT. A. H. FOSTER. Captain Morgan Light Infantry * Became Later Ranking Captain ( of the Palmetto Sharpshooters. ( = I In answer to call for troops issued t after Battle of Bull Run: ( 15th Reg. S. C. V. Cols. W. D. DeSausure, ^ J. B. Davis. t Lieut. Cols. Joseph F. Gist, ? S. F. Lewis. I Gist Guards?Co. B. < Caps. Wm. H. Gist, 1 Stephen Hill Sheldon. i Co F. Capts. Charles W. Boyd, John R. Jeffries. I t Mt. Tabor Co.?Co. D. j Capts. W. H. Sims, 1 W. P. Farr, i W. P. Briggs, i F. M. Farr. s The 15th Reg. was part of Ker- i shaw's Brigade and the full Rosters i are taken from the "History of Ker- \ shaw's Brigade." s 18th R?g. S. C. V. 1 1 Cols. J. M. Gadberry, W. H. Wallace. Lieut. Ferd Scaife. Adjts. W. H. Wallace, # } Clough Sims, Wm. Munroe. J ( ] ( ' m h 7% ihtejf CAPT. JAS. T. DOUGLASS. Co. D, 5th Reg. S. C. V. His Sword i Was Shot From His Side at ( Battle of Manassas. i . X * HER* Companies That Went s. the Heroic Deeds of / t Out and Published i m That Future Genera [ES FROM UNION Co. A. Capts. W. H. Wallace, John McCormick, Charner Greer. Mention has been made of companies from JTnion commanded by Capts. Ferd Scaife, Wm. McJunkin, Felix Walker, Tim Malone. These are said to have been leading factors in organizing the 18th Regiment but we have not been.able to get any record of Rosters or report of companies. 5th S. C. Calvary?Co. K. Capt. J. G. Harlan. McKissick Rangers?Co. D. Holcombe Legion. Macbeth Light Artillery. Capt. Robert Boyce. Lieuts. G. Jeter, Starks Porter, Wm. Munro, Hazel Scaife. Ith Regiment State Troops. 'Union Laddies" (1G year old boys) O.pt. D. A. Townsend. "THE MINUTE MEN." Immediately after the passage of ;he ordinance of Secession, the legislature of South Carolina authorized .he governor to organize ten reginents of infantry for State service. In answer to this call a company of 'Minute Men" was organized at once n Union district. Jas. M. Gadberry was chosen captain and the. com3any went to Charleston on Jan. 12, 1864. These soldiers were needed for imnediate service. They had no time o get uniforms, but wore such clothng as they had. Of course every nan had a soft black felt hat and t was easy enough to turn up the >rim on the left side and fasten it vith a 'minute man's cockade. This vas made of dark blue ribbon and lad a tiny Palmetto tree in the eener. Capt. Gadberry's company was en olled as Co. E. 1st Regiment S. C. V. lefcre their departure the ladies of Jnion presented to them a handsome lag. It is said that the presenta ion was to have been made from the >iazza steps of the old Female Acadimy, but that the flag was really prelented to the company from the piizza of the old Culp home by Orderly sergeant James B. Steadman of the 3ea Ridge Volunteers. This would jave been a graceful compliment to he Orderly Sergeant as well as to jJadberry's men since the Sergeant ind Lieut. Ed. J. McKissick by the rote of the Pea Ridge Vols, had revived permission to serve with the 'minute men" until their own . com>any should be called into service. The date of the departure of the 'Minute Men" for Charleston, Jan. .2, 1861, was a notable day in old Wnon district. One of the little girls of that day, low a women whose "sun is westerng", writes: "I was not at the deiot to bid the "minute men" from ;he fact, that mv nAA?? ...? ?? ?, i?i^ j/uvi nvtic ntfii i was iching from having seen my father's )ody laid to rest the day before, but is the train rolled out of Union that norning it was crowded with brave toldiers and the shouts that filled the lir would have deadened the martial nusic of hip: brass bands." We vatched the train as it moved out of iight on its way to Charleston and istened to the farewell shouts as hey died away in the distance." In early September of 1862 a train oiled into Union, but there were no shouts to herald its approach or to jreet its arrival. The waiting crowd vere in tears as the fed sad-faced ioldiers who were on board lifted the asket that held the remains of James VI. Gadberry, the gallant captain of ;he "minute men", and bore it to the 'village cemetery". There is not one iving to tell the story of that burial, >ut we know that the women and :hildren of Union covered that grave vith their most beautiful flowers and n spite of the fearful ravages of war ;he people of Union found means to irect over that grave the handsome nonument that bears this inscription: "James M. Gadberry Colonel 18th Regiment S. C. V. Fell at Ploino OAa-U i one* ? . * ?iiiq| nuf^uot Ul/Ul, lOOi ChivalVous, generous and brave True to his country and his faith Jt He so bore himself In the varied walks of life And left so fair a record That his memory Is his noblest monument. This stone is erected by his friends and fellow citizens rHE JOHNSON RIFLES OF UNION, SOUTH CAROLINA. This company was organized in 1847 for service in the Mexican War. It is said that Gov. David Johnson reviewed the company on what is now the cemetery of the Methodist church and presented a single rifle in ap o so Out From Union in tin U1 Who Gave Themselv in These Columns-?W tions May Know the Hi; ^ J?' : s" ' V COL. J. R. R. GILES, Shot and instantly killed at Battle < to those who knew and loved him. He went into the service as capta which was Co. A, 5th Reg. When hi Regiment, Jas. T. Douglass was ms of him, "Jack Giles was one of the bravest man I ever knew. He alway: was killed he wore my watch. Had tl by one-half inch my watch would hav< proval of its name. Later on he equipped the Palmetto Regiment for service, but as only one Regiment from South Carolina was called for and the Palmetto had al ready 1200 men upon its roll the Johnson Rifles could not go to Mexico. Two members of this company, James M. Faucett and Sol Alexander, went over to Chester and succeeded in getting into the Chester company. They served during the entire war and so distinguished themselves by their reckless daring and bravery that General Shields is reported to have said: "If I had a regiment of men like Faucett and i\ '$$??*''' WM. H. S Color Bearer for Johnson Rifles. He Kept It in His Room Until His on Februai V >NS C 3 60's Will Be Collect es to the Service of th hen the Record is Coi story of Old Union Cou 1^^ | UIK. j C V. )f Seven Pines. He was "Jack Giles" in of "The Tijrer River Volunteers", e rose to the rank of Colonel of the ide Captain of Co. A, and he said dearest friends I ever had, and the s led his men in battle. The day he he course of that bullet been changed i saved his life." Alexander I could charge h?1 and capture it." Out of the 1200 members of the Palmetto Regiment only 300 came back from Mexico?900 names are inscribed upon the death roll. The legislature presented the 300 men who survived the war a handsome gold medal and to each private a silver medal. James M. Faucett's medal is now the property of the relic room of the Union Carnegie Library. In accordance with an act of the General Assembly of South Carolina in December of 1860, calling on an (Continued on page 10). ^ -V- ... -' si & Itllil) fJjJP. '..J/1. ' '" ^...^ ANDERS, Brought This Fag Home With Him. Death at the Age of 87 Yenra, y 6. 1914. )F U1 ed?The History of The ie State, and the Sufferii mpleted, it Will Be Ca nty and the Gallant Dee -THE BURNING (By the late Wm. A. Nicholson). | Early in 18!) 1 I volunteered in the Macbeth Light Artillery, company composed of men from Union, Laurens and Spartanburg, under the command of Capt. Robert Boyce. The company wa/> first ordered to Lightwood-knot Springs, a few miles from Columbia. From there they were sent to Charleston and took up camp at the race course, after having spent some time on the Half Moon Battery, near to where' the cotton mill now stands. It was while on duty at the race course that I received an injury that unfitted me for active service during the rest of the war. 1 was detailed to look after the horses belonging to the battery, being fond of riding and a fearless horseman. I mounted a spirited animal to take him to water with only a rope halter to guide him. Near bv was a field of luxuriant grass, which was separated from our camp by a fence of moderate height. My steed, preferring grass to water, ' made a dash for it and went over the fence. Being without saddle or bridle had 10 means of steadying myself, and on his alighting on the other side oa the fence sustained an injury from which I was sent to the hospital, where I was treated for some time, and then discharged from active field duty. Later on in the struggle I was assigned to duty as clerk for Surgeon Horlbeck in the college hospital in Columbia. When the Second North Carolina Hospital was organized by Surgeon A. W. Thomson in the College Chapel, he made application for my detail as his clerk. He was then the ranking surgeon of the post, if not of the Confederacy. He had seen much active field service and was in charge of the Winder Hospital at Richmond, Va., when ordered by the Surgeon General to organize the Second North Carolina Hospital. I.i this connection I cannot refrain from adding my tribute to the memory of one of the most loyal and devoted sons the Confederacy ever claimed. To those not familiar with his temperament, he might have been re yarded as harsh and unreasonable; nothing could be further from a cor rect estimate of the man. A more tender-hearted, liberal, devoted surgeon to the sick and destitute could not be found. The writer knows from his personal knowledge many, many occasions when he took of his private n.eans to get delicacies for the sick or aid some poor soldier in reaching his home. But of all men he was the most uncompromising foe to officer or private whom he suspected of feigning sickness; then it was his indignation knew no bounds. To those of a less hopeful disposition it was evident that the days of the Confederacy were drawing to a close. It was only when Sherman's army was in the vicinity of Columbia he fully realized how near the end was. Hospital Flag Disregarded. Orders were given to hoist a yellow flag on the College Chapel that the enemy might know what the building was used for. The sick and woundeo from the other hospitals in the city were being sent away to different points. Those unable to take such a journey were concentrated in College Hospitals Nos. 1 and 2 in the South this was being done I received a list from Chief Surgeon Thomson of the names of doctors then on duty in Columbia that were ordered to report for duty at points beyond the city. 1 : TI UHG III willing out most; orders a number of Confederate calvarymen congregated in the middle of the street close to the College Chapel. Their presence was discovered by the Federal forces then on the opposite side of the Congaree, who soon brought their artillery to play, notwithstanding the hospital flag was still floating from the chapel building. The music fi?om the shot and shell was getting most uncomfortable, and I quietly reminded him of the situation; but, as if it weie an fcverv day occurrence with him, he urged me to go on and get through with my writing. On the night of the Kith February our troops were on the march the whole night, retreating before Sherman's army. On the morning of the 17th Dr. Thomson went to Janney's Hotel ? headquarters for Surgeon Otto, chief of General Beauregard's medical staff?to get orders, telling me before starting to have an ambulance in readiness with some provisions in case he should receive orders to follow our army. On reaching the hotel he found the officers gone and that he must decide for himself the course he should pursue. His duty, he realized, was plainly narked out, and that was to remain with the 180 or 190 sick and dying then in hospital. When he told me how matters stood, and assured me sraoN >se Who Fell in Battle igs Endured by These irefully Revised and ds of Her Noble Sons OF COLUMBIA" if I was taken prisoner he would do everything in his power for me, (the Federal army by this time had entered the city), all 1 could say in reply was, I would follow him in whatever position he was placed. The tears were coursing down my cheeks as well as his as we stood holding each other's hands. He then gave me instructions to move our baggage ?) x.ne ^resident's house of the South Carolina College, in the college campus. He went in search of the officer in command in the city in order that he might secure a guard to be placed around the hospital buildings. Colonel Stone, the Federal commandant of the post, promptly complied wit., the request, and sent a lieutenant and a number of men from an Ohio regiment, they making their quarters on the first floor of the house we were occupying, we using the second. By this time a large part of the army had entered the city, a portion of it, headed by Generals Blair and Slocum, passing the college campus WM. A. NICHOLSON, Of the Hospital Corps, Who Walked From Columbia to Cnion After Sherman Had Burned the City to Get Food for the Sick and Wounded Soldiers. on their way to camp on the Rev. Mr. Townsend's farm. They were a splendid looking body of men, and naturally felt elated at having taken what they reparded as the cradle of secession. While I was watching the army go past I was hailed by a Federal officer, he was calling me by name. I could not imagine how it was possible for nie to ue Known by such a person. He saw that I did not recognize him, and asked me if I did not recollect Lieutenant Briscoe, belonging to a Maryland cavalry regiment. 1 at once recalled the name, he having been one of the prisoners of war sent for surgical treatment to the Second Norti. Carolina Hospital. I had shown him, as well as others who were similarly situated, little attentions, which they evidently felt very grateful for. as only those placed in such circumstances could fully appreciate. Knowing he would be taken in charge by his own people and sent North I asked him if he would take a letter through the lines and mail it to my parents in Scotland. lie readily consented, with the understanding he would have the privilege of reading its contents. In the letter to my pa(Continued on page 14). 4 HBBSBEk^*SBHrSP CAPT. F. M. FARE. Ml. Tabor Co.. Co. H. 15th Rep. S. C. V. Wounded in the Peach Orchard at Gettysburg. .