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and is the author of a valuable account of the
battle of Chancellorsville.
He has been very active in the organization of the
Confederate veterans, and was the first commander of the camp at
Gaffney.
By his marriage, in 1861, to
Amanda Lanford, he has five children living.
Berkley Grimball, of
Charleston, a veteran of the Marion artillery, one of the gallant organizations which assisted in the memorable defense of the
South Carolina coast and the harbor of
Charleston against the
Federal power until the
Confederacy had been cut in twain by the armies of the enemy, was born at that city in October, 1833, and there reared and educated.
He was graduated at the college of Charleston in 1853, and then entered upon the study of law, gaining admission to practice in 1855.
He did not, however, engage in the practice of the profession, but found employment in commercial houses until the beginning of hostilities in
South Carolina.
Early in 1861 he went on duty as a corporal in the
Sumter Guards, and being stationed at
Morris island, was there during the bombardment of
Fort Sumter by the forces under command of
General Beauregard.
In the fall of 1861 he enlisted as a private in the Marion artillery, and from that time until the surrender at
Greensboro he was identified with the service of that battery.
He participated in the engagements on John's island, and after the evacuation of
Charleston served with the army under
Gen. J. E. Johnston.
Since the close of the war he has been a citizen of
Charleston, highly respected by his former comrades and the public generally, and is now engaged in the insurance business and in rice planting on the
Edisto river.
Lieutenant John Grimball, C. S. N., now residing at
Charleston, was born in that city in the year 1840.
In 1854 he entered the
United States naval academy, and was graduated June 10, 1858, one of the fifteen in his class of eighty who attained that honor.
Others of the successful members of this famous class were the present illustrious members of the United States navy,
Admiral George Dewey,
Rear Admirals John A. Howell and
H. L. Howison, and one of those who did not graduate was
Judge Don A. Pardee, of the
Federal bench.
After his graduation young
Grimball sailed to the Mediterranean on the
