[711] and the memorable fighting of 1864, distinguished by the victory at Trevilian Station and the raid at City Point. The number of battles in which Captain Lowndes and his comrades were engaged cannot fall much short of 200, and throughout he was distinguished for bravery and fidelity. During the period since the close of hostilities he has been a resident of Charleston and occupied with his interests as a planter. Captain William Barr Lowrance, since the war a resident and prominent business man of Columbia, is a native of Rowan county, N. C., born in 1841, and rendered his military service to the Confederacy with the troops of that State. When he entered the service in April, 1861, he had had the advantage of military training at the Morgantown academy, and enlisting in Company G, of the First volunteers, or Bethel regiment, he was at once detailed as drillmaster at Raleigh. He then accompanied his regiment to Virginia, took part in the battle of Bethel, and had the rank of corporal when the regiment was disbanded after six months service. He then became orderly-sergeant of Captain Fleming's company of the Forty-sixth North Carolina, and within a year was promoted to second lieutenant. Subsequently he served two years as adjutant of the Thirty-fourth North Carolina, and from the winter of 1864-65 to the end was captain of Company K of that command. Among the battles in which he participated were Seven Pines, the Seven Days fighting on the Chickahominy, Sharpsburg, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, the Wilderness, Spottsylvania Court House, Reams' Station, Ashland, the many months of fighting in the Petersburg trenches, the encounters on the retreat to Appomattox, and the last fight at that place. In 1866 he made his home at Columbia, and there in 1869 embarked in business as a merchant, an occupation in which he has met with deserved success. He is one of the leading citizens, has served eighteen years on the city council, and as a member of the State legislature in 1890. He has also done good service in the State troops as lieutenant of the Columbia flying artillery in 1876 and as captain in 1877-79.
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[711] and the memorable fighting of 1864, distinguished by the victory at Trevilian Station and the raid at City Point. The number of battles in which Captain Lowndes and his comrades were engaged cannot fall much short of 200, and throughout he was distinguished for bravery and fidelity. During the period since the close of hostilities he has been a resident of Charleston and occupied with his interests as a planter. Captain William Barr Lowrance, since the war a resident and prominent business man of Columbia, is a native of Rowan county, N. C., born in 1841, and rendered his military service to the Confederacy with the troops of that State. When he entered the service in April, 1861, he had had the advantage of military training at the Morgantown academy, and enlisting in Company G, of the First volunteers, or Bethel regiment, he was at once detailed as drillmaster at Raleigh. He then accompanied his regiment to Virginia, took part in the battle of Bethel, and had the rank of corporal when the regiment was disbanded after six months service. He then became orderly-sergeant of Captain Fleming's company of the Forty-sixth North Carolina, and within a year was promoted to second lieutenant. Subsequently he served two years as adjutant of the Thirty-fourth North Carolina, and from the winter of 1864-65 to the end was captain of Company K of that command. Among the battles in which he participated were Seven Pines, the Seven Days fighting on the Chickahominy, Sharpsburg, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, the Wilderness, Spottsylvania Court House, Reams' Station, Ashland, the many months of fighting in the Petersburg trenches, the encounters on the retreat to Appomattox, and the last fight at that place. In 1866 he made his home at Columbia, and there in 1869 embarked in business as a merchant, an occupation in which he has met with deserved success. He is one of the leading citizens, has served eighteen years on the city council, and as a member of the State legislature in 1890. He has also done good service in the State troops as lieutenant of the Columbia flying artillery in 1876 and as captain in 1877-79.
Atlanta, Ga. 1899.
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