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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 14. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Address before the Virginia division of Army of Northern Virginia, at their reunion on the evening of October 21, 1886. (search)
from Charleston, and Jefferson Guards innumerable, and so on. But the Revolutionary titles soon ran out, and when a second and third company was raised from a county the name of the county would no longer answer as a prefix to the Rifles, Guards, Infantry and Light Infantry, &c. Then came the Invincibles, the Tigers, and the Hornets, &c. Various and curious indeed were the devices in company nomenclature. In our own regiment (Gregg's First South Carolina volunteers) we had one company from Horry district, which boldly assumed the title of Rebels—the Horry Rebels—and the Huguenot name of Sumter's lieutenant of Revolutionary story, was soon disrespectfully, if not abbreviated, at least changed, into Horrid Rebels, which the company bore with great complacency until it became company F. For, with a complete disregard of all the heroic pledges which had been made for the immortalization of these company names, they were in due course ignored by the War Department, and the companies af