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April 28th (search for this): chapter 24
estors, who came there from York county, Pa., in colonial times. Both his grandfathers were soldiers of the Revolution. With such patriotic blood in his veins he responded promptly when his State was in peril, and became a member of the Jasper light infantry, Company I, of the Fifth regiment. Ordered to Virginia with his regiment, he took part in the great victory at Manassas, July 21, 1861, and in the following spring was on duty at Yorktown. There the regiment was reorganized, and on April 28th he was elected second lieutenant of Company E. In the battle of Seven Pines he was seriously wounded, causing his disability for several months. Then rejoining his regiment at Winchester he was promoted to first lieutenant and from this time until the close of the war was in command of the company, the captain having been made prisoner by the enemy, and led his men with courage and ability in twenty-seven hard-fought battles. He was with Lee at Appomattox, and then returning to his home
May (search for this): chapter 24
Sullivan islands, until the fall of Sumter. In May, upon the organization of the Hampton legion unonel and Capt. Thomas Thompson to major, and in May the regiment was ordered to Virginia, where it wound which caused the loss of his left arm. In May following he began teaching school in Orangeburwar, on February 17, 1862, and in the following May was assigned as Company I to the Third South Caarolina battalion, becoming third lieutenant in May, 1862, and later on first lieutenant. In Juned at Russellville, Tenn., in January, 1864. In May the regiment was ordered back to Virginia and ted into the Confederate States service, and in May the command was divided into Companies A and B,iment as Company B, he assumed command of it in May, and was assigned to take charge of the post oner of Sumter he returned to the academy, and in May following was appointed drill-master with Colon On reaching Richmond with their horses late in May, the mounted detail was assigned to duty in Gen[1 more...]
May 1st (search for this): chapter 24
hich he served the balance of the war. He was in the following engagements: Jackson, Miss., Chickamauga, and the siege of Mobile, Ala. On April 9, 1865, he was captured at Mobile, Ala., and was taken to Ship island, where he was kept until about May 1st, when he was taken to Vicksburg and paroled. . Returning home he commenced his present business of farming. During Cleveland's first administration he was postmaster at Dovesville, S. C., where he resides. He was born January 19, 1845, in Darlmpany became a part of Col. Maxcy Gregg's First regiment of volunteers. He served a month on Sullivan's island, and on Morris island until the fall of Fort Sumter, when the regiment volunteered in a body to go to Virginia. Reaching there about May 1st, they were ordered to Manassas junction, in which vicinity they were on duty for some time, taking part in the battle of Vienna. Returning to South Carolina at the expiration of enlistment, Mr. Scaife assisted in organizing a company at Union,
May 6th (search for this): chapter 24
was struck by a shrapnel shot, but not seriously injured. The regiment then returned to Virginia and was sent with Longstreet on the Georgia and Tennessee campaign. In the battle of Chickamauga while in command of his company he was seriously wounded in the leg and sent home on furlough, where he remained for four months, joining his command at Russellville, Tenn., in January, 1864. In May the regiment was ordered back to Virginia and took an active part in the battle of the Wilderness, May 6th, after which they were in almost daily fighting, at Spottsylvania, Cold Harbor, Hanover Junction, and Petersburg, until July, 1864. On July 28th he lost his left arm on Newmarket Heights (called by some Fussell's Mill). It was amputated on the field and he remained in the Jackson hospital at Richmond until September 1st, when he returned to his home. He made two trips to the front after his recovery, to bring back the bodies of dead comrades, but his day of active service was done. After
May 10th (search for this): chapter 24
ed to the interests of the home for mothers, widows and orphans of Confederate soldiers and sailors, and has thereby contributed materially to caring for many destitute mothers and widows and to educating some 1,800 daughters of Confederate soldiers and sailors from 1867 to the present time. He is interested in the work of the ladies' memorial association, of Charleston in caring for the graves of the Confederate dead since 1866; is unflagging, as worker, writer and orator on Memorial day, May 10th. Captain Holmes, then serving on General Law's staff, was one of the half dozen or more men whom Hampton had behind him when he charged a company of Yankees in the streets of Fayetteville, N. C., driving those that were not killed or captured out of the town. All of those whose names General Hampton obtained after the fight were gazetted for gallantry. William Edward Holmes, a veteran of the Twenty-fifth regiment, who is now a successful wholesale merchant of Charleston, was born in tha
May 27th (search for this): chapter 24
he took part in both the affairs at Pocotaligo, and in the first commanded the advance guard and was slightly wounded. He was highly commended in the report of Col. W. S. Walker, who said that Lieut. L. J. Walker performed the responsible duty assigned him with skill and courage. In June, 1863, the command was divided into two companies, A and B, Trenholm's squadron, Rutledge mounted riflemen and horse artillery. In April, 1864, he accompanied the riflemen to Virginia, reaching Richmond May 27th, and being assigned to the Seventh South Carolina cavalry, Gary's brigade, he was identified with that command until the close of the war. He took part in the opening fight at Cold Harbor, and was twice wounded, in the leg and shoulder, and continued on duty north of the James river, before Richmond, taking part in numerous skirmishes and battles, including the fights at Deep Bottom and Fort Harrison. In February, 1865, he was promoted to captain. On the retreat to Appomattox his company
May 28th (search for this): chapter 24
cavalry, Captain Rutledge, with the consent of the other officers, being promoted to the colonelcy. The regiment was brought together at Pocotaligo, having received orders to report to Gen. W. S. Walker, and for one year thereafter they were engaged in picket duty for the protection of the Charleston & Savannah railroad. On joining the army of Northern Virginia, then encamped on the Rapidan, General Hampton made an attack on Sheridan's lines, and after a severe fight near Hawe's Shop, on May 28th, Captain Pinckney with the extreme right of the line was cut off and captured. A week later he was shipped with some 600 prisoners from the head of the York river to Point Lookout. After some six weeks Captain Pinckney with most of his fellow prisoners were removed to Fort Delaware. There he suffered more than the usual hardships incident to prison life, from the fact that bad rations and bad water brought on disease which threatened to prevent his ever leaving that prison alive. Fortu
June (search for this): chapter 24
oon afterward he returned home to assist in recruiting and in the latter part of June was mustered in as second lieutenant of Company K, Fifth regiment, North Carolinolunteers, was soon appointed sergeant, and when the regiment was reorganized in June and transferred to the Confederate service he became captain of Company F. In t ball in the right leg, and this kept him out of the service until the following June. At Gettysburg he was again wounded by a minie ball in the left thigh, and this, when he received an appointment as cadet at the Arsenal academy, Columbia. In June following the Arsenal cadets were ordered to Charleston to do guard duty at the eant in Company E, Third South Carolina infantry, at Columbia. In the following June he was promoted to first sergeant; on May 16, 1862, was appointed adjutant of theston during and subsequent to the bombardment and surrender of Fort Sumter. In June he enlisted as a private in Company C, of the Second South Carolina regiment, Co
June 4th (search for this): chapter 24
s Eliza Watts, and they have two children, a son and a daughter. Lipman G. Balle Lipman G. Balle, of Laurens, S. C., was born in Prussia, July 29, 1839. He was reared in his native country and learned the tailor's trade in his youth. His father, Henry Balle, was a professor of languages, but never came to America, and died in 1875. The mother of Mr. Balle was Cecelia Cassell, who died in 1848. In 1857, at the age of eighteen, he came to America alone, arriving at New York on the 4th of June. He remained in New York city working at his trade until the fall of 1859, when he was attacked by a severe case of typhoid pneumonia, and in the months that followed, during which he was confined to his bed, he spent what little money he had saved. Before being taken sick he had arranged to go to California, but his illness made a complete change in his plans, and, as it turned out, changed all the rest of his career. Having recovered sufficiently in February, 1860, he came south for
June 5th (search for this): chapter 24
nued until after the fall of Sumter. On October 11th he was sent with his company to Hilton Head, to take charge of Fort Walker, and there he participated in the engagement of November 7th. A month later the command was stationed at Chapman's Fort on the Ashepoo river. February 12, 1862, the company volunteered in the service of the Confederate States, and on April 26th was ordered to Fort Pemberton, James island, where they had a skirmish with the Federal fleet on Stono river in May. On June 5th he was elected captain, the rank in which he served during the remainder of the war. In command of his battery he participated in the battle of Secessionville, June 16, 1862, the engagement with the Federal gunboat Isaac P. Smith, on Stono river, January, 1863; and in May, 1863, took charge of a battery of eleven guns at Georgetown, where they were on duty until the spring of 1865. Then joining the Confederate army at Kingstree, they moved to Cheraw, hotly pursued by Sherman, and on into N
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