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[470] service of the State as a private in the Palmetto Guards, then on duty at the iron battery on Morris' island. He served as number 3 on gun No. 1, which fired the first solid shot at Fort Sumter. In the following summer he took part in the organization of the Summerville Guards, and was elected second lieutenant. With this company he was assigned to duty at Fort Walker, and was in command of the 42-pounder guns used in the battle at Port Royal. His company was assigned to the Eleventh regiment, and at the reorganization in the spring of 1862 he was offered the captaincy, but declined it and enlisted as a private in the Charleston Light Dragoons. With this command he served on the coast until 1864, when he went into Virginia, and fought under Gen. M. C. Butler in numerous engagements about Richmond and Petersburg, including Hawe's Shop, Cold Harbor, Reams' Station, Burgess' Mill, Nance's Shop, Trevilian Station and Sappony Church. Subsequently he was with Butler in the Carolinas, and toward the close of operations the five or six men remaining of the Dragoons were detailed by General Butler as his special couriers. After the surrender at Greensboro he returned to Charleston, engaged in the cotton trade until 1877, was then for twenty years in railroad service as traveling freight officer, and in September, 1897, was appointed chief of police. In 1876-78 he was major on the staff of Brigadier-General Stokes, by appointment of Gov. Wade Hampton.

John J. Bozeman, now of Ninety-six, S. C., was born in Anderson county, April 28, 1837. His father, Lewis Bozeman, was one of the substantial farmers of South Carolina and died in 1858. The mother of Dr. Bozeman, Jane Archibald Kennedy, died in 1846, but though thus early deprived of a loving mother's care, he was carefully reared on the farm and received a good academic education. He studied medicine and in 1857 graduated from the South Carolina medical college of Charleston, and at once entered upon the practice of his profession in his native county. In the spring of 1861, he volunteered in Company E (Bozeman Guards), Hampton legion, his brother, T. L. Bozeman, being captain of this company, in whose honor it was named. On the battlefield at First Manassas he was detailed to serve in the medical department and for some time he acted as a hospital

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