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[682] J. B. White, as a private in Company A, Citadel cadets. with this command he was under fire at Tulifinny river while on duty between Charleston and Savannah, and subsequent to the evacuation of the city he accompanied his command and the Confederate army into North Carolina. When the cadet corps was disbanded at Spartanburg, in April, 1865, he returned to Charleston, and in December following began a course of study at the Virginia military institute, where he was graduated in 1869. He has had a prominent career in the State military service since the war of the Confederacy, serving as captain of the Charleston light dragoons from 1876 to 1884, and thence until 1890 as lieutenant-colonel of cavalry. With patriotic pride he gave three sons to the service of the United States in the war with Spain in 1898: Louis S., of the signal corps; Theodore D., sergeant in Anderson's heavy artillery; and Harry Lee, a private in the latter command. Mr. Jervey is a member of Camp Sumter, U. C. V. Anthon Johnson, a retired merchant and influential citizen of Charleston, is one of the survivors of the daring blockade-runners who were of such great service to the Confederacy during the days of 1861-65. He is a native of Sweden, born in 1834, and arrived at Charleston in 1846. At the beginning of the war he was United States lighthouse keeper, thirty-five miles from the city, under command of the collector of the port of Beaufort, who orered him to put out the light and remain at his post in charge of the government property, valued at $57,000. After he had performed this duty about two months he was relieved of responsibility by the Confederate forces, on the day of the battle of Port Royal, and he went to Charleston and secured naturalization as a citizen of the Confederate States. Thereupon he at once enlisted in the Mathewes artillery, in charge of the lightship which had been converted into a gunboat, and was on duty with that vessel about two months. Blockade-runners were then called for and he was detailed for that service by Captain Bonneau. He and two others bought a schooner, called the Alligator, shipped a crew, and made two trips, one to Nassau and one to San Domingo. Then he shipped with the blockade-runner Kate, as masthead-lookout, and made four or five trips. Until the close of
Atlanta, Ga. 1899.
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