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Stephen Elliott, U. C. V., which he helped to organize and of which he has been commander for four years. He was born in 1835, in
Colleton county, and after many years of battle and varied vicissitudes is settled among friends in his native State.
Major Julian Mitchell, of
Charleston, was born on
Edisto island,
Charleston county, and educated at Charleston college, graduating in 1855 with first honors.
He was appointed secretary of legation to
Russia, by
President Buchanan, and returned from that post just after the secession of
South Carolina and before the bombardment of
Fort Sumter.
Upon his arrival he entered the army as an aide on the staff of
Gen. R. S. Ripley, and accompanying the latter to
Virginia was assigned to duty as commissary of the brigade.
He was in the battle of
Seven Pines, shared the service of the brigade in the Shenandoah valley under
Stonewall Jackson, and was with
General Ripley when he was wounded at
Sharpsburg.
Under
Ripley's successor,
General Doles, of
Georgia, he continued on duty as brigade commissary, until the
Pennsylvania campaign, when he served with promotion to major on the staff of
General Rodes, commanding a division of the Second corps.
At the
battle of Gettysburg he was taken prisoner, and thence was sent to
Fort Delaware and later to
Johnson's island.
In 1864 he was specially exchanged for
Major Pruyn, of
Albany, N. Y., returning south by way of
Governor's island,
N. Y., by the steamer
Arago to
Port Royal, and thence to
Charleston, where the exchange was made.
He was then called to
Richmond by the
secretary of war and assigned to duty at
Chester, S. C., with orders to expedite the forwarding of supplies from the southwestern States to the army in
Virginia.
He remained on duty in
South Carolina until the close of hostilities.
A year or two later he was admitted to the bar and located at
Charleston, where he has ever since been engaged in the practice of law. In 1895 he was a member of the constitutional convention of the
State and chairman of the committee on education.
Jacob D. Mock was born in
Laurens county, July 11, 1845, the son of John and Nancy (
Setzler) Mock, both natives of
South Carolina.
He was reared on a farm in
