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The Daily Dispatch: April 19, 1862., [Electronic resource], The late Gen. A. H. Gladden. (search)
The late Gen. A. H. Gladden. --We take from the Columbia South Carolinian the following sketch of this gallant officer, who fell at Shiloh: He was born in Fairfield, S. C., October 28, 1810. In 1830 he removed to Columbia, and entered into the business of a cotton merchant. He served in the Florida campaign in the Rich and Rifle company. On his return he resumed his former business, and was in 1841 appointed by President Tyler Postmaster of Columbia, which office he held during that administration. 1845 he volunteered for the Mexican war in the Palmetto regiment, and was elected Major — Pierce M. Butler being Colonel, and J. P. Dickinson, Lieutenant Colonel. He fought gallantly, as his whole regiment did, at Contreras, Churubusco, Chapultepec, and the gates of Mexico, and upon the fall of Col. Butler and Lieutenant Colonel Dickinson, he was chosen Colonel of his regiment. When Gen. Quitman called for a flag to be raised upon the gates of Balen, Col. Gladden handed the