[811] the South Carolina military academy, which he left in June, 1863, to enter the war. He joined Company A, of the Rutledge mounted riflemen, as a private. His company was commanded by Capt. William M. Trenholm, who subsequently became a colonel and since the war has been distinguished in public life. For one year after he joined the Rutledge mounted riflemen, it did service on the coast of South Carolina, and it was then ordered to Virginia. Upon its arrival there the Seventh South Carolina cavalry, commanded by Col. A. C. Haskell, was formed, and the Rutledge mounted riflemen became a part of it. On May 28, 1864, in the battle of Hawe's Shop, Private Reed received a wound which resulted in the amputation of his right arm and came near causing him to lose his left arm also. He was in the act of taking aim when a ball cut across the upper portion of his left wrist, entered the palm of his right hand and plowed up into his right wrist, shattering the bones and badly lacerating that member. The ball passed through, leaving his arm just above the wrist, but its work was complete. It was twenty-four hours before he received attention from a surgeon and when he did that officer remarked that he would probably lose both of his arms. The left, however, though badly wounded, was saved. The amputation of his right arm cut short his military career, and after spending a short time in the hospital he returned home, and in 1866 embarked in a general mercantile business in Anderson. Since 1883 he has conducted a large mercantile establishment of his own, in which he has been very successful. He was married, October 25, 1864, to Miss Fannie E. Kingsley, then living in Georgia, and they have one daughter, now the wife of R. S. Ligon, a merchant of Anderson.
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[811] the South Carolina military academy, which he left in June, 1863, to enter the war. He joined Company A, of the Rutledge mounted riflemen, as a private. His company was commanded by Capt. William M. Trenholm, who subsequently became a colonel and since the war has been distinguished in public life. For one year after he joined the Rutledge mounted riflemen, it did service on the coast of South Carolina, and it was then ordered to Virginia. Upon its arrival there the Seventh South Carolina cavalry, commanded by Col. A. C. Haskell, was formed, and the Rutledge mounted riflemen became a part of it. On May 28, 1864, in the battle of Hawe's Shop, Private Reed received a wound which resulted in the amputation of his right arm and came near causing him to lose his left arm also. He was in the act of taking aim when a ball cut across the upper portion of his left wrist, entered the palm of his right hand and plowed up into his right wrist, shattering the bones and badly lacerating that member. The ball passed through, leaving his arm just above the wrist, but its work was complete. It was twenty-four hours before he received attention from a surgeon and when he did that officer remarked that he would probably lose both of his arms. The left, however, though badly wounded, was saved. The amputation of his right arm cut short his military career, and after spending a short time in the hospital he returned home, and in 1866 embarked in a general mercantile business in Anderson. Since 1883 he has conducted a large mercantile establishment of his own, in which he has been very successful. He was married, October 25, 1864, to Miss Fannie E. Kingsley, then living in Georgia, and they have one daughter, now the wife of R. S. Ligon, a merchant of Anderson.
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