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[672] narrating this circumstance and highly recommending his promotion, is now in Lieutenant Izlar's possession, together with a very flattering endorsement by Gen. Johnson Hagood, brigade commander. He is also mentioned on several occasions in the official reports of the war, recently published by the government, for conspicuous gallantry in battle. After the fearful battle of Weldon Railroad, in which his regiment lost 500 men out of 700 taken into the fight, he was for several days in command of his regiment, being the ranking officer left for duty. At Town creek, near Fort Anderson, N. C., in the spring of 1865, he was captured while in command of the picket line, and taken to Point Lookout, Md., where he was kept until after the war closed, when he was paroled and returned home. After the return of peace he was engaged in a mercantile establishment at Orangeburg for several years, after which he became interested in a cotton factorage business in Charleston for fifteen years. In 1893 he returned to Orangeburg and has since been engaged in real estate and fire insurance. He was married, December 22, 1870, to Miss Annie A. Felder, of Orangeburg county. When Lieutenant Izlar returned after the close of the war he reorganized and was elected first lieutenant of the Edisto Rifles, of Orangeburg. He was soon afterward made adjutant-general of the brigade of State militia commanded by Gen. James Izlar, and during the administration of Gov. Hugh S. Thompson he served upon his staff with the rank of colonel.

Louis Jacobs, a prominent citizen of Kingstree, S. C., was born in Germany, November 18, 1842, and educated there. In the spring of 1860 he emigrated to the United States in a sailing vessel and landed in Charleston. He commenced clerking in that city and remained so employed until the war opened, when upon the formation of the German volunteers, a company to be attached to the Hampton legion, he enlisted in it as a private in the summer of 1861. A few months after reaching Virginia, in compliance with a promise made by General Hampton, this company was converted into artillery and was thence known as Bachman's battery, Hampton's legion. This was perhaps the only company in the entire army in which there were no promotions, the captain persistently refusing all promotions on account of

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