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Col. Walter Gwynn. We have been pleased to see, by a paragraph in the "South Carolina," that our old and esteemed fellow-citizen, Col. Walter Gwynn, has accepted the command of a military compaCol. Walter Gwynn, has accepted the command of a military company in Columbia, S. O. The State is fortunate in securing the services of such an officer. Col. Gwynn was a graduate of West Point, and served in the United States Army fourteen years, part of which Col. Gwynn was a graduate of West Point, and served in the United States Army fourteen years, part of which time he was engaged in the Ordnance and Artillery Corps, (at the school of gunnery at Old Point Comfort,) but the greater portion in the Engineer Corps. For upwards of thirty years he has been actively engaged as Civil Engineer, and stands in the front rank of his profession in this country. Col. Gwynn has also been in the volunteer service eighteen years, in command of companies of all kinds ofose military abilities and judgment they can repose the most entire confidence. Such a man is Col. Gwynn.--There is no military position in the service of South Carolina, or any other State, which he