li. .-i a 11 eve of their departure. The ori anything about, who never came made a charge ami regained the ell to mention, at this time, a Chester's Proud Record ginal has long since been lost, back. lines. This WB> recognized as hrilling incident told the writer but a few verses have been pre Out of the 1,9-11 men this one of the most gallant charge* y Mr. Lathan, as it shows the served. They are as follows: county pave the Confederate inmle durin.u the war. Colonel ouruge and bravery «f Chester©s Culp was on detached service "I ?ee that the ladies have given Army, with the exception of oroes. In The Confederate War and wtfs in no wise obliged to go "The 17th Regiment was sent you a banner Capt. John Dunovant at that time of the United States Army, into battle, but willingly risked Tennessee to help stop Sher- Which waves over your heads his lil©e for the cause he loved By ARTHUR CORNWALL ti©M-.t Abrah;tni Lim-nln had call whit at the outbrenk of t"he war nun, who remained inactive in resigned his commission to offer so well. hattanooga until our soldiers the war cloud grew ed oi©t .--evtnty-fivo thousand in the hands of J. Black; In IHfiO hi* services to his people and At the Buttle of Five forks. ..eve recalled, and the 17th of Minute Men nien, or one million volunteers. Before that its folds should be dark, companies afterwards commis^ion- a few days before the surrender, legiment returned on foot a- weie formed, and many com Chester County i t>s ponded with dragged in dishonor, who was He was Col. Culp and Col. Hudson were foss the Blue Ridge Mountains menced wearing the blue cock five I .r>) compartie>; ( hes-ter Not a Pickers Guard member ed Briiradier-ijt©neral. while leadinv his brig-adc put out w©ith a little handful of f Virginia. While fighting in ade. Soui h Cwroluia took tin- (luHVtis, under Captain Obadiah would ever come back. killed Brandy .Sta men to hold a certain position Vnnessee volunteers were call- pnssed the Ordinance Hardin; Chester Clue-*, under at the Battle of lead and The Pi-kens Guards rally, your tion. There was not a singi*1 on the firing line. They were d for lo lake an adVance enemy on December 20. Opt. K, C. McLure; Calhoun ^^^^^^^ ^ ^ ^ a* ^*^ " " " © - - uf Secession cause is a good one, commissioned officer or a single outnumbered, ten to one.. The The Methodist Confer- Guards, under C«pt. -I. T. \Valk- position. Colonel Culp and his I860. Wives and childion and Sweet- regular soldier they wei e enemy kept coming and pressing session «t Chester, ei ; Pi-len- Guards, under Capt. men started in the face of a enee wni*in heal U you©re bound to d_e- men. They had no hiirh ranking them hack. Col. Hudson sug the news reached here; the J. Michael Moore; Patuwba deadly fire. All turned b»ck when Ten 3^ officers, because they did not gested they retreat; Col. Culp©s wa* read during a Lu.-uds under (.apt.. (i. Lafayet xcept Colonel Culp and three telegram On Moore for your. Captain, on need them. The hiifhest ranking reply was, "You can retreat if there was great te Strait. These companies were men. When they reached the night session, Beaty Lieutenant, with the exception of you want to, but I have no or excitement, and prayers wt>rt* iim-tc.rtd into the Sixth Regi officer, enemy and took the position. On Johnston and Wallace you General iMmovant, was Lieuten ders to retreat and here 1 am offered for the Southern leaders. ment. The officers were: -Col. may alway* depend." going to stay". And there he olonel Culp, in thundering had J. H. Rion, Lieutenant-Colonel ant-Colonel John Ripley Culp, tones, told his comrades that Every district in the Slale When the fatal shot rang out Wylie©s Mill, did stay until the Federal of to the Secession A. J. Set-rest, and Major Thomas who was born at nobody but. a fool would at sent delegates five companies, from this county Chester County, October© 1!©, ficers came up and captured him. Mr. Richard Wood; \V. Wood. Later Col. C. S. tempt their daring act and that (Convention. were stationed in Charleston, 1821*. His education was some He was taken as a prisoner to Mr. Alexander Quay iHmovant. Winder was put in command, al ie, as an officer, had to >fo, but ready tn go to the front whtn- the a^e of Johnson©s Island, Lake Erie, Wade Moore and the i(.>que*t of the- regiment. He what limited, since at they were not obliged to do so. Dr. Thomas ever orders came. fourteen, it was necessary for and held until July of the same JIcKee were Chester©s became Brigadier-General and These three men were Newman Mr. John Chester County had men at him to abandon his education year, 18G5. of the Ordinance nf Si- wa« killed at Cedar Ran, Augu.-^t Hudson, James Reid and Samuel signers Manassas and Antietum, at Vicks- arid assume the management of It was said of him, "lie never Mr. McKee was th"e ©.©, IKtVJ. while comniainling the Martin, all of the Richburg sec cession. hurg and at Gettysburg, at the his father©s farm, he being© in ehunned a danger, and he never man in the Convention. Stonewall Brigade under Jack tion of Chester County. No oldest evacuation (>f Richmond, at the capacitated from the infirmity shirked a duty." At this time Major RobeifAn- son. The Regiment was re-or Crater, at Gaincsville and at the After his release, he returnee mopping up of a German ma of years. Howevr, at tTiis neat was more com derson, with a uarrison of Unit ganized in the Spring of IfcH©J, Wildei ness, at Seven Pines, at home, resumed farming, later chine gun early apre, he had mastered quite and more danger ed States tioop.s occupied r©m t with Colonel John Bratton, Lieu Five Forks and at nearly all of entering1 the mercantile life in plete, brave a bit of Latin and some higher this thrilling exploit," Moult) ie on Sullivan*« Island. It tenant-Colonel J. M. Sleadman, the other great battles of the connection with his farm. It ous than was feared he would attempt to and Major E. C. MeLure. Confederate War, and last of.all 1895 he-Tnoved to Chester am Chester County furnished two remove to Fort Sumter, a much On the murniny of April U with Johnston at ()7, was filling Culp was the first Captain, and ther out to sea. To prevent thi« had received orders to report af i©ight companips of infantry, was married to Mis* Kranees the office of Judge of Probate then William H. Edwards be a squad from the Charleston Charleston. Mr. Richard Neil two companies of Cavalry, and Katf.sdale of Kos.sviJle, and at the Judge Hudson said that he came its Captain. The other, Military Companies patrolled the played the fife, and Tom Wtight in the la>t. years of the war outbreak of the war, thrt©e chil- and Colonel Culp of the 17th Company D. was under Captain harbor each night in small boats. K^at the drum. Tom was a negro, 1864-1865, gave her lust, all dK©ti had been born to them. He had stood their ground until it James Beaty and Liter under The squad from the Charleston had alway^ born free, was of gi- that «he hud, three companies of was possessed of jcood military was almost too late to escape Captain William G. Stevenson. Riflemen was under the com gnntic size, but his heart was talent and for years before the "But we began to retreat to the Julius Mills was elected Major mand of Major Thomas S. Mills full of love for the South. He reserve?. Capt. John Hardin©s war was elected Colonel of the Five Forks when General Ma at the first organisation of the from Chester. Major Ander>nn begued to go with the boy.-, did company consisted of old men 27th Regiment, South Carolina. Ranson dashed up on a fine ba> Regiment, and he served gallant found this out, and taking ad ten, ai.ci remained with them un and ymmg boys, Capt. Giles J. Militia. horse mid called for volunteers ly. Captain Edwafds feelingly vantage of a dark, rainy night til the surrender, when he came Pattei son©s company of sixteen In the summer of Iflfil, at We responded and amid the said of the brave young men, H company WHS 01- soldiers-in the 17th before the patrol were out. he home with the proud conscious anil seventeen year old boys, and Riehburif dead and wounded thick upoi who were evacuated Fort Moultrie and ness of having faithfully jiei- a company of men from fifty Kiini/.cd with .J. K. Culp us Cap the grourd, with bullets flying Regiment: during tVf£ dark days "thatTon a rainy took possession of Fort Suimei. formed his duty. The troops to sixty years old, who went out tain, This company afterwards and shells bursting, ru>hed into of ©61 tq^f65, This was just before Chrintnias. reached Chai lesion the night under Captain James Me Dill a- became Company A, 17th S. C. this pandemonium. At the Bat night in the sunVmer of 18G2 in In .January the United States before r©ort Sumter was fired bout -sixty days before surren V., entering the service thai Fall tie of Five Forks on the after Virginia, in a clump of woods at and .serving until the I©lo.ne of the Mapassas, there lay a #reat many Government attempted to rein, upon, and lemuined on Morri.s, der. noon of Aprif 1, 1865, less than force and provision Fort Sumter. Cole and other islands, until or struggle. Captain f©ulp was pro eight thousand ftot-sore, raggei woonded soldiers, among whom "The Star of the Wc-st" was sent dered to Virginia. Chester County furnished moted to Major and later to and half-starved; Confederate were qujtu a number from Ches 1.941 men to the Confederate Lieu tvn ant-Colonel. ter County." And, Capt. Ed for this purpose, but as soon as The men who went out as the for four hours, in the open field fhe appeared off Morri.s Island, Army. No reliable statistics are PoKflibly his most outstanding held at bay twenty-five thousam wards recalls among them were: I©ickens Guard.-* followed Boau- available as to how tbi" number miliiary achievement WHS at the "John Ripley©C.ulp. James Beaty, was* fired into by a batU©iy man "rcftlfrd. ©Johnaton and Lee. from" well-fed and well-clad Federa ned by the Citadel Cadets, and compared with the voting popu Battle of C©later; just at this troops, and only gave way afte Joseph NunYiery, and James C. Fort Sumter to Appnmattox. lation of the county, but it is date a court martial was behijt Hardin noble patriots, splen forced to return north without The banner given them by the more than half the force hat accomplished her erraml. safe to say that the number of held and Colonel Culp detailed did citizens of their <|»jr >8nd having ladies of th*u community (Ilope- been killed, wounded and cap seceded, .*olfiieis exceeded the number of as a member of the Court and true Christian gentleme^/" After South Carolina never dragged in dis tured." she wa- not long alone. Ala-- well> was voters by at lea^i five hundred not on duty with the Regiment. honor arid «ome of the Pick ens Colonel Culp said (hat on thi It ia interesting- to^recount soon followed, then Mis- to !*even hundred and fifty, for At dawn a dull, heavy sound was bama Guards did come back. fearful day he. like Colonel Hud that the sword of Col. Gulp, sissippi, C.cojgia, Florida, and the voting popttlution of thi* heard th»t jarred the earth a son, was shot down and remain which was taken in the B«tUe of so on until seven states formed This county had wen in the county did not peach the two distance of two mile? from the ed unconscious for nome time Five Porks by hm antagonist and the Southern Confederacy, fleet. front when the first gun wan thousand mark until after I©.©OU. line who re t h e. C o u r t held its and then finding Federal troop captured by Lieutenant Charles any was or^anizt-d near New pome lady or servant ran in the Convention. He enlisted an dising with Captain W. T. D. the dead line *nl career, did a good many First Lieut. in Company 0. 1st Cousar. H«* became Judge of that day and got inside of the lope Methodist church at "Car train to giyis them their pur- things worthy of note. The fiist er©s Old Field". Captain Har- tic n. tffah hutf* dishes of ap Regiments. C. Cavalry, of which Probate about 181M arid held hr east- works. That man was was to graduate in the ianiuu.-) lin was wounded at DraneNville, ples, baked n> syrup or sorghum, Colonel Alexander Walker was that office for twelve years, un James White Bigham, a private Class of 185;; at the South Caro at the time captain. Col. Walk til his death. There was no soldier from Chester County. >ecemb*>r 20, 1HB1. He died a- (they had no Rugnr then) pies lina College (now the. Univer >out eig-ht day« later. His bro- and custards, as were devouied er was a prominent lawyer of gentler man to be found. With At the Battle of AntieU.m a sity of South Carolina). There Chester and soon was promoted quiet manner and modest her, George Hardin, and George each day, besides quantities of captain was stationed al the i^ot was never a class turned out by more substantial food. to Lieutenant-Colonel and serv tearing1, he continued to serve of a hill at one end institution since the .State of the any Brakefield were killed on the Then too there were buckets ed with distinction to the close i is community, without display and was told to hold this posi government waa founded that battlefield. After Captain and pitchers of water 10 of the war. »r boasting in the peaceful walks tion. Al> day the left its impress so deeply in Har- cool courieia kept din©s death. Lieutenant XV. H. the wounds, which Upon the promotion of Colonel f life and led a blameless life. coming with the p:ime message. history of the State a.* th- were to have Sandvrs waa promoted to cap fresh bandages. This work and Walker the captaincy of his com The late Colonel Arthur L. Each time the captain saluted ous Class of 1852 of the S. C. tain, and -J. W. Wilks was First labor of love was carried on pany was bestowed upon John S. Canton, one of Chester County©* and sent the message back College. The second good thing to Lieutenant. iotig months. Wilson, who acquitted himself inest citizens and brilliant at- Lonjrstreet that he was holding he did was to obey the call of the with boldness and served during orneys, in his Memorial Day the front. All day long an end State in April 1R6L He went While in winter quarter* at In February, 1805, Sherman the entire war. This Cavalry Address in May, 1925 said: "A- less lint© of blue soldiers kept go out as a private soldier in the Centreville, Virginia, in 1862, burned Columbia. Thy reflec Company was a part of Colonel mong the brave men of Col. Wil ing around his flanks. With his Ch«wttr Blues. under Captain the .snow lay so long1 on the tion of the fire could bo seen in Black©s division and saw hard son©s command were other noble handful «f men he held the front. Ed. Me Lure. At the re-i ground, the boys, for exercise Ches©.er. Many refugees came service on the fields of Virginia. and prominent men of the coun- Late that afternoon the courier zation, when the State Uooiis and fun, would fight sham bat to Chester and lived in box cars, Among the members of Captain y whose names should bt* for tame with another messajre, the were organized into the troops tles, snowballs being the ammu or in any place that they could Wilson©s company were Mr. ever inscribed in the memory of command to retreat. He found of the Confederacy, he was c nition, a company or companies find shelter, for the houses here Harvey Hood, who was county »uv people. Mr. John Bennett the captain still at the front on Iff led Captain of his company representing th*- South and were already filled with refugees Sheriff for a number of >>ears, Cornwall, the father of our the line of battle, when the fiuet He wan leading *ia men when other* the North. In one of from Charleston and elsewhere. Mr. I. McD. Hood, who became Clerk of Court, Dr. John E. man of his company had gone, killed at the battle of Seven the^e sham fights the Calhoun In this neighborhood Sherman county Auditor. Mr. Thomas M. holding hi* position single-hand Pines, May 31, 1862. On *.ha Guards fought so furiously that burned the home of Mrs. Edward Cornwall, is one of these men many were overcome, and the Mobley. Mrs. Mobley, Peden, who also was Sheriff of ed Kiel alone. Thut man W.IK day, which was such a fatal one with her the county, Mr. whose service after the «*:;r wa> next day the hospital was filled three children, stood in the yard Ike Russell, Mr. to the South Carolina Uoops Harvey Westbrook, conspicuous. He not o ily freed Captain William Wise, of the with the sick. Capt. -T. T. Walk and watched the burning house. Mr. R. Mose his company was lyinj? in Dodds, a brave his slaves, who- had lit! % d the western s -etion of Chester Coun er of the Calhoun Guards, con An officer asked her why she did scout and intre trenches. The picket fire start pid soldier, plantation of four thousand tracted penumonia and soon nat cry. She replied, "I want and Mr. Alexander ty. ed with the enemy and Wise, who lived acres, but had employed t- arhu-f* kept up died. His body warf brought you to ^ue how a Southern wo many years af At the Battle of Jack.-on, Mia- until the firing f?ot very heavy. ter the wtir and served the to train them. JHe wa; a close home for burial. man can bear such cruelty." He personal friend a i-*rtain portion of the The©©company wan in danger. county as Judge of Probate, Mr. of (» now anil ii.-e, with oiil.v a thin of Captain shooters r.ver and get undt?r Captain Gaston was in the He lout on.: of his arms at the the people, began to bury their Wileon, it is related that hU uniform of rags to keep out the cover of he patch of woods and capture of the City of Mexico. valuables, and to hide every snow and winter infantry. Colonel W. Alexan company was shattered and be rai:i, whet he. i pick off tho gunnprs to silence He organized a company dur thing they could. Later a on the firing der Walker was in the cavalry. came separated during the ter lined or in thi> long the batteiy in that way. Col. J. ing the Confederate courier came with the joyful hours of waiting in the trenches Colonel Walker, also, graduated war and was rible fighting at Gettysburg and R. Culp *as ordered to take fleeted captain. When his com nows that the army had (Tone by around Rich morn), during iht- from South Carolina College be. Captain Wilson being left alone forty men and dash across this pany waa ordered to Virginia the way of Hanging Rock, to act la^t days of the. Confederacy fore thtf war and was, also, en- Ms and hemmed against a fence by opart ©4$ace. He called for forty fritMtds persuaded him to with Stom-man©? Cavalry, then with nothing save gagred in the practice of law resign, the enemy attack, held them at corn tor his men rind got them. They start because of having1 only one arm. near Charlotte, N. C. sustenance, he was a!wa>* at his when the State troops were bay until he emptied his pistols ed across this -space in full view He reluctantly gave post and did hi.? duly. Those nf called out in April, 18fil. He it up, and Colonel Edward McCrady and then, upon his horse, leaped of the Ft-deral gunners and in Capt. W. L. Roddey, today know nothing of what went as a member of the Ches then of points out that Chester County the fence to safety arid to rally direct line with the fire. When Lewisville later Rock the sii foldier.i emiuivd. W« ter Blues. It wan only a shoit Hill has been twice ravaged by an hi* men and renew the battle. they, -retched the other side, took charge. In front should see that the mamory of time before he was called home of Cap invading army. First, during the the*e we:*;* only four men. tain Thomas© house In the Maryland campaign by their deeds do Hot sleep with to lay away her whom nad been (in the town Revolutionary War hy the Brit C*4onel Culp and three private of Uichhurg) was General Hampton a large num their aahe«. his help-mate. Leaving his an open field ish Army, under Lord Cornwal- ber of Germans, in the Northern soldiers v ere the lucky four men. children at home, he organized a uped as a mustering ground dur lis. That the same people who army, were taken prisoners and Histoiy has told of the death One of .lit- three was Squire company of cavalry of which ing the Confederate war. ros<1 against Cornwall!* at Hang John turned over to Captain Wilson to of that gallant soldier of the Magill, who was for years John WesK-v Wilka wa» Lieuten One item of the history of ing Rock, Cowpens and King©s West, General Patrick Cluyburn, Magistrate in LewisvilJe Town ant, and which performed such that period (18&1-1S65) and one Mountain, avenged Ta-rleton©s hringr into the Confederate lines. at Franklin, T*-nnes.si-o, whese ship. The comment Col. Culp distinguished Hcrvice all through of the most pleasant because of slaughter of Buford©s men at the His prisoners out numbered his Hood©* army was cut to pieces. made to the other three was this: the war. He waa at Gettysburg kindness to th* sick and wound Waxhawtt and the destruction of company by great odds. None It was one of the hluodiest and "I hardly know whether to com and in that fijrht one horse waa ed soldiers, wan the meeting by Sumter*s force- at Fishinif i>f the prisoners spoke Er.plUh. one of the hardest fought haltlrs mend your-bravery or to con fthot from under him and he, the Chester women of the trains Creek; that the same people, 1 but were foreigners hired as of thu entire war. It has been demn your fool-heartedness for himself, WHB severely wounded. that brought theae brave men who lit asrain the lamp of coming substitutes by the North to fight written that the fire wiw NO out under fire l?ke that." After the war he came home to from the fields of Virginia to liberty at that time, where the the South. Captain Wilson saw heavy thut Hit smoke of battle* Today, on the Battlefield of obey General Robert K. Lee©s and through Chester every day. " ose who ren- that hi* prisoners were plotting almost eclipsed Die sun. It set Gettysburg an iron tablet is the last command "be a good citi- The ladies were divided into their escape, so instead of shoot tled down over the fields in a mvite witness of the bravery of x«n." He took his stand and committees, and each day, just ing them to death, as might Major: fi. M. Rosn, Major Ro-e, did his part in the reconstruction bef"re train time, could be sepn justly have been done by a Us* a* * young lieutenant from Geor of the South. a score or more of servant* with iuman officer, and under a more ^ ^ ^^^^^ MHBH^VM Idered such honorable service i aptain Obadiah Hardin, of th< Ithe Confederate War, The peo. firmed the report and urged the grass, Obadiah Bobbins appoint men to submit, telling them that Tfie Matchless ed Corporal; W. J. Robbins, Z. Chester Guards, and the lady wasl Iple who settled this part of th his daughter, the late Mrs. Nan-| State carried with them^The a\. he had made honorable terms of Ruff, J. A. Sanders, Dan Sam- nie Hardin Wilkes. the rifle and the Bible. The capitulation and called on the moris, J. A. L. Thomas, Robert meeting-house ami schoolhous* men to agree, which they did. Men In Grey Thomas, F. C. Vaughn, Alex The «td veteran continued,! The Regiment was allowed to re Wise L. S. Wise, A. C, Wilkes. put up together. The "At the battle of Drainesville.l tain its arms three days, un Wr© - Asbury Whituhead. T. J. Wil loved liberty and learned to Notes on Company K, Sixth December 20, 1861, Lieutenant-) molested by the Federal troop-, liams, E. J. Worthy. W. M. Wilks Colonel Secrest was in command [shoot straight. and then after stacking arms for Regiment S. C. Volunteers and died at Germantown, Va., Captain O. Hardin of the regiment; Thomas W. In the Battle of Seven Pine*. parole, they wont to their October, 18f>] ; Garlanji Wilks Woodward was Major, and Cap the Sixth Regiment was conspi homes. Bv ARTHUR CORNWALL died at Charlottesville, Va.. tain William McAliley was Color- cuously engaged and suffered The Confederacy, which they 1861 ; J. A. Wade. William Wood bearer. Major Woodward said terribly, Colonel Brattoii was gave everything to defend, went In my many years of arduous died at home in 1861. to Captain McAliley (of course severely wounded and fell into down in history as a lost cause, and painstaking research and the It is hoped that information he was not captain at that time), pub- the hands of th< enemy. The hut the world has knowledge that compiling of Chester County©s on other companies will be Colonel Winder will not ask Con blood of other Revolutionary they were men and soldiers, interesting history, I was for Jished, so we can keep the who is killed or who is wound-1 stock was poured out in thi< bat When histo?y©.s final roll is com tunate to find some very valu federate history of Chester ed, but how the colors have been tle in the ranks of the Sixth. J. plete, along with thi- names of able information concerning County preserved. borne.© William McAliley ie-| [Lucious Gaston, who had !>een Washington and Wellington will Company E., Sixth Regiment, (Captain Obadiah Hardin) plied: ©I will take care of the appear the names of Jackson South Carolina Volunteers. elected Captain of the (*h«>r-ier Captain Obadiah Hardin was colors as long as 1 am able.* A and Lee. Along with the names Captain Ohadiah Ilardin, wounded on December 20, 1861 little later he was shot throughj [Blues and a younger brother, of the unnumbered throng of the William Gaston, were killed in a i-wounded Dec. 20. 18«1, and at Dranesville, Va., and died the hand, so he could not ho»u world©s greatest men, who have I died Dec. 28, 1801. First Licu- December 28, 1861. He is buried the flag stand. When he .*how-| few feet of each other at Seven fallen on the great battlefields Pines. I tenant G. W. Sanders, Second fit Brushy Fork Baptist Church, ed his hand to Major Woodward, of time since the world began, | Lieutenant K. C. Wilks resign near Wilksburg. He was only the latter said to (©aptain Har The Sixth Regiment was in will appear the names of Con ed; Third Lieutenant J. W. thirty-four years old. din, whose company was in the, Charleston at l-©ort Sumter in federate soldiers. Wilks, First Sergeant Andrew I 1. center, ©Name a brave man to the beginning of the war. and Although the discerning man There is a halo around a losi I Sanders, elected lieutenant, died could readily perceive that Cap. take the colors!* Captain Har-1 fought bravely until the last. cause, which grows brighter as at Orange Court House, Vii- din, instead of assigning- one ofj Some of the last survivors of this tain Hardin was no ordinary time g-ocs on. The names of our Iginia; Second Sergt. J. B. Han- man, yet, his unassuming: man his men to the dangerous duty,, Regiment were: Alexander vViso, Confederate soldiers are .secure ifoek, Third Sergt, Richard Land. ner concealed his merits from took up the flag himself and: John WesleyWilks, both of in history. For, Idied at Churlottesville, \©a.; the public eve. In early life Re went forward holding it aloft. 1 whom later joined the cavalry, ©Fourth Sergt. G. Williams, elect was called to the command of He was shot through the body. Jacob Stone, Sam McConnell. J. *©Beyond the realm <»f the last ed lieutenant Dee. Jit. 180©1 ; the 2c who praise phries. Private J. B. AtKinson, He offered his services to his Major Woodward was also! Calhoun Guards. He wax a our T. J. Alien died country in her hour of need and wounded that day. graduate of Davidaon College I J. J. Anderson. God for that they served this Va.; Thrash I y was elected Captain of the Ches and a druggist, but scorned to !at Charlottesville. The kindly old veteran, who re-l world." i Alien, J, S. Alexander, J. O. ter Guards. An advocate of accept a position in Richmond in lated the details above record-1 Bass, George W. Brakefield strict discipline, he shunned no the hospital corps. He sial- «J ~ ed, was in the fight, so he was a, killed at Dranesville, Dec. 20, duty and dealt out even-handed wartly f»ught with his Regiment. witness to the deeds of heroism. 18H1; Judge Beam died at (©amp justice to all. He was conscien He saiu some year^ before his He said Major Woodward went N. Brown, W. W. tiously just and impartial to alt. death that the members «*f th»- I Pettis, Va.; W. into that battle on his horse, but fa) Carter, John Carter, Bluke Car- No captain in the Sixth Regi first four of hU company were: ment was more deserving of con he would not have done so two! Z o, ! ter, J. S. Carter, Abner Carter, years later. William H. Uardui, John O. Hai- c: |J. O. Cainess, Alex Coin, Ira fidence of his command and din, W. J. W. Cornwell. These 3 Coin, Cab (©rocker, T. Cranford, none had it in a higher degree Several other men from thim men were o\ cr six feet in height. OS T. B.Chalk, K. C. Cornwall died than Captain Obadiah Hardin. county fell that day. They were I As Dr. StriiiRfeUow marched at at Germantown, Va., 1861 ; Wil He was greatly loved, not only Joseph Caldwell, William Mcbill.j fa] by his own company, but by John Barber and perhaps others. the right of his Regiment next to tc liam Chalk. J. W. Dodds, E. C. these four. their comrades, H c*. I Douglas, J. D. Kates, Press Kstea, every individual in the regi Captain Hard in was a son of I ment, with whom he was brought laughingly, called out. "Hello, ojB^_the highwa report, a* a traitor trying to McCluney, T. A. McCluney, by. The kindly old veteran re I discourage tn e Army. General [Thomas Mayfield, W. T. Morris, marked; "That lady©s father wa« NEWS: | Lee was seen approaching, rid Archie Melton, William May- as brave a man as was in the ing on old Traveler, in company field, J. B. Pressley died at Confederate Army.©* The gen June 8, 1961 with a Federal officer. He v- iGermp.ntown, Va.; T. C. Pressley tleman he was talking about was tis_ Fender-