Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina
Clement Anselm Evans, Ed.

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[637] Scott Hay, was born. The latter received his education at Buford Bridge, at Augusta, Ga., and the Boiling Springs academy, in Barnwell county. While attending school at the latter place he ran away for the purpose of entering the Confederate service, but, as he was only fifteen years of age, was not accepted. In the fall of 1864 he enlisted as a private in the Second regiment of South Carolina State troops, serving with them until Sherman's raid, at which time he returned home on a furlough and was cut off from his command by Sherman. He then reported to the provost marshal at Augusta and served in that department until the close of the war. After the surrender he returned to Barnwell county, became a mercantile clerk for a short time and then took up the study of medicine. He graduated from the South Carolina medical college in 1874, and has since successfully conducted the practice of his profession in Barnwell county. He was married, in 1880, to Miss Minnie, daughter of the Rev. S. H. Hay, of Camden, S. C., and they have five children: Erroldine, Malcolm Fraser, Louis Scott, Nellie Kathleen and Walter Smith. He is a member of Jim Hagood camp, U. C. V., at Allendale.

Isaac W. Hayne, attorney-general of South Carolina during the Confederate era, was born at Charleston, March 12, 1809, and died at that city March 8, 1880. He was the son of William E. Hayne, and the grandson of Isaac Hayne, the martyr, who was executed without trial by the vindictive and inexorable order of Lord Rawdon and Lieutenant-Colonel Balfour, under the charge of having broken his parole. In his veins was also some of the blood of the Brevards, of North Carolina, one of whom was a signer of the Mecklenburg declaration. Isaac W. Hayne was no unworthy scion of the stock from which he sprang. While not possessing the remarkable oratorical powers of his distinguished kinsman, Robert Y. Hayne, it is possible that in counsel he was the superior of the brilliant senator and governor. So widespread was the confidence in his judgment that his influence was very great in public affairs, and it may safely be said that no political movements of great import occurred in South Carolina during his public life without the benefit of his advice and the earnest solicitation of his approval and support. He was a graduate of the South Carolina