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[903] on and fought at Boonsboro Gap and Sharpsburg, on the second day of the latter battle receiving a wound from a fragment of shell. Walking thence to Staunton, Va., he was sent to hospital at Richmond, and thence home, where both his wounds disabled him until the 1st of December, 1862. Rejoining his command he fought at Fredericksburg, and on December 31st following was promoted to junior second lieutenant. Subsequently he participated in the several weeks of heavy skirmishing before Suffolk and near Blackwater; was on duty with Jenkins' brigade at Richmond and Petersburg, and in the fall of 1863 accompanied Longstreet's command to Chattanooga. He was in battle at Will's valley, near Lookout mountain, and in east Tennessee took part in the engagements at Lenoir Station and Bean's Station, the siege of Knoxville, and the affairs at Rutledge, Bull's Gap and Dandridge. In January, 1864, Capt. John D. Palmer, of Company H, having for a long time been disabled by a wound received at Second Manassas, and First Lieut. Thomas H. Clarke having been killed at Dandridge, January 17th, and Second Lieut. W. G. Gardner seriously wounded, Lieutenant Welch took command of the company. In May, 1864, the command was sent to Columbia to become mounted infantry, and Lieutenant Welch was detailed as adjutant of the horse detail, about one-third of the legion. On reaching Richmond with their horses late in May, the mounted detail was assigned to duty in Gen. M. W. Gary's brigade, and from that time until the surrender at Appomattox was in almost constant fighting, including the battles of Riddle's Shop, Nance's Shop, Samaria Church, New Market Heights, Roland's Mill, Darbytown Road and Malvern Hill. For nearly a month in the summer of 1864 he was in command of a squad of men observing the movements of the Federal transports, and subsequently was detailed as acting adjutant of the legion, under Col. T. M. Logan. His later battles were on the Williamsburg road, Amelia Court House, Farmville, and just beyond Appomattox Court House on the night preceding the surrender. Lieutenant Welch was paroled with the command of Gen. W. H. F. Lee, and then returning to Charleston, he embarked two years later in the wholesale fruit and produce trade, in which he has been quite successful. Two brothers of the foregoing were in the Confederate service:
Atlanta, Ga. 1899.
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