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Col. Joseph Gist Served in Civil m-i States Rights Gist Outstanding Soldier Capl. James Gist Col. Joseph "At the organization of the Ar Campaign of 1864 was identified Served On Staff my of South Carolina, early in with that division. 1861, States Rights Gist was assig After the fall of General Walker, Of His Brother ned to the position of adjutant and he was transferred to Cheatham©s Gist Served inspector general, in which capa division, which he commanded for James Dugan Gist, the tenth city he rendered valuable service some time during the fall cam child and eighth son of Colonel in the preparation for the occupa paign of that year. At the terribly Nathaniel Gist and bis wife, Eli tion of Charleston harbor and the destructive battle of Franklin, In Civil War zabeth Lewis MacDaniel Gist was reduction of Ft. Sumter. He went, Tenn., he was one of the brave born June 12, 1833 and died Au to Virginia as a volunteer aide to men whose lives were sacrificed. gust 24, 1863. Colonel Joseph Fincher Gist, the General Bee and at the critical, Attended by Captain H. D. Gar first son of Colonel Nathaniel Gisl moment in the first battle of Mi-1 den and Lt. Frank Trenholm, of He was Captain in the Confed and Elisabeth Lewis McDaniel nassas, while General J. E. John- his staff, he rode down the front, erate army on the staff of his hro- © Gist, his wife, was born October ston rode to the front with the co-; and after ordering tin, charge and ther, General States Rights Gist.; 11, 1818 and died in 1890. lors of the 4th Alabama at his side, waving his hat to the 24tb, rode He died of typhoid fever, contract Beauregard relates that "noticing away in the smoke of battle, never© ed in the severe campaign through In 1838, he was in the Sophomore Colone! S. R. Gist, an aide to Gen. more to be seen by the men he had which his brigade had passed dur- t class at South Carolina College. He Bee, a young man whom I hid commanded on so many fields. ing the summer. He died in Mor was enrolled as an attorney in Co known as adjutant general of His horse was shot, and he was ton, Mississippi. lumbia in 1841. In 1846 he served as a member of the House of Re South Carolina and whom I greatly leading the right of the brigade As a soldier, he filled his ofJlee esteemed, I presented him as an when he fell, pierced through the well. His brother officers remark presentatives. able and brave commander to the heart. ed "he was so kind, so energetic, In 1856 he succeeded his first stricken regiment, who cheered An Interesting incident of Gene-; rat Gist©s service was his deliver*! so useful and always ready for cousin, William H. Gist (after STATES RIGHTS GIST their new feader and maintained i duty." wards Governor of South Caro under him to the end of the day ing personally, as the represnta- General States Rights Gist, was ——-—:——i lina), in the Senate. He was a their previous gallant behavior." live of Gov. William H. Gist, let member and officer of the first the seventh son and ninth child of Subsequently he resumed his du ters to the governors of the seven Colonel Nathaniel Gist and his cotton states in the fall of 1860. Union Dally Times company formed in Union for Con ties as adjutant general organizing : federate service under Capt. J. M. wife, EJizabelh McDaniel Gist and South Carolina troops for the war,©. These communications dealt with Union, S.C. • was born September 3, 1821 at the the course to be pursued In cast Gadberry, He served al Charleston until in March 1862, he was com Special Confederate under Colonel Gregg, until the Gist homestead "Wyoming" in missioned brigadier general in the of Lincoln©s election and the trium Section, Dec. 1960 Union County. reduction of Fort Sumter and was Confederate service and ordered ph of the party he represented then transferred to Virginia. to report to General Pemberton, in other words to ascertain their "Wyoming" was situated in the feelings with regard to the matter upper part of Union County, about then in command of the depart At the formation of additional ment. of secession. regiments, he was elected Lt. Cui three miles from Jonesville and The United States government was built by Col. Gist in the early He was after this on duty on the of the 15th Regt. S. C. V., which South Carolina coast, in command has placed a bust of Brigadier Gen position he held until [he battle oi 1800©3. Nathaniel was a brother to eral States Rights Gist, C. S. A., the father of Governor Gist. east of James Island in June, oa Chickamauga, where he was thei. that Island from July; temporar in the government military park wounded and afterwards disctiarg Colonel Nathaniel Gist was a ily in command of the 1st district at Vicksburg, Miss, ed from service because ul result firm believer in states rights, hen and in December 1862, in command In May 1863 General Gist was or ing disability. ce the unusual name given to his of the troops ordered to the relief dered to the Western array. Be i j seventh son. As a boy "States" at of Wilmington, until May 1883 when fore leaving his stale, ne was mar- Colonel Gist was a lawyer, a , ! tended a private academy est- he was ordered to take command ried, May 6, 1863 to Janie Adams, member of the firm of Hurndon ablished by his father and others of a brigade and go to the Assist daughter or ex-Governor Adams of and Gist. After the close of trie | in the community and taught ance of General Pemberton In South Carolina. He left no child War he was successively Prubate by Dr. James H. Saye, ft Presby Mississippi. ren. Judge and County Treasurer. He terian minister. He also attended a General States Rights Gist it always took an active interest in Reaching Jackson, his command the county©s welfare, especially private school taught in the neigh- formed part of the troopa under buried in Trinity Church yard i» ! borhood by a Northern man, a Mr. during Reconstruction days and J. E. Johnston, took part In the Columbia. .__ j was largely instrumental in secur i Foster (father of Captain A. H. engagement of May 14th at Jack Uftlon DaU-y. .©-times, i Foster, i Union merchant). La ing the building of the railroad son, marched to the Big Black Ri Union, 3.C. through Union County. He is b\ir- ler he attended the famous fitting ver just before the surrender of© school at Winnsboro and comple Special Confederate ied in Fair Forest Graveyard. He Vicksburg and then returned to was never married. ted with diitinctlon the arademic Jackson where he was beseiged Section, Dec. .1960 course at South Carolina College by Sherman. His brigade compris in the class of 1852, after which ed the 46th Georgia, 14th Mississip Union Daily Times he entered law school at Harvard pi, and the 24th South Carolina, Union, S.C. University, from which he was the 16th South Carolina soon after graduated in 1854, being substituted for the Mississip S Dedal Confederate Returning to South Carolina, he pi regiment. Section, Dec. I960 wan admitted to the bar, entering He fought gallantly at Chicka mauga, commanding during part j into a partnership with William Munro at Union. of the battle Ector©s and Wilson©s In 1859, States Right* Gist wa§ brigades, his own brigade led by elected Brigadier-General of the Colonel Colquitt and on Sunday, militia of Upper South Carolina. commanding Walker©s division. The military aptitude manifested At an important stage of the while filling that post secured him fight, General D. H. Hill called for election by th» Legislature of : Gist©s brigade for dangerous duty,, South Carolina to the post of Ad-© in the performance of which it© .jutant and Inspector General of th«f suffered severely. He continued in,© State when the troops of South Ca conspicious and valuable service! rolina were reorganized shortly af- during the battle of Missionary1 Ridge, commanding Walker©s di vision and, throughout the Atlanta.
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