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[922] represented the same county in the North Carolina legislature, his grandfather and uncle having been sheriff of the county for forty consecutive years. Other members of the family have held important positions, a younger brother being at present clerk of the court, and a cousin has been register of deeds for three terms.

Walter Williman, cashier of the Germania savings bank of Charleston, is a survivor of the gallant service with the Citadel cadets, and illustrated the patriotism of the State in the dark days of 1864-65. He was born at Charleston in 1845, and after a preparatory course at Spartanburg, entered the Arsenal academy at Columbia, in the winter of 1864, but was soon afterward transferred to the Citadel academy at Charleston. The Citadel corps of cadets was ordered into camp in the latter part of November, under their commandant, Maj. J. B. White, and early in December was ordered to the defense of the Charleston & Savannah railroad, where they were engaged in the fighting at Tulifinny. Later in that month they were posted on James island, and after the evacuation they moved to Cheraw, and then into North Carolina, whence in March, 1865, they were recalled and stationed at Spartanburg and later at Greenville. They remained on duty and under arms until May 9, 1865, and were then furloughed and disbanded. After his return to Charleston, Mr. Williman was in the service of the Northeastern railroad for a period of fifteen years, and in 1881 became teller of the Germania bank. Continuing with this institution he was promoted to cashier in 1894.


Gideon T. Willis

Gideon T. Willis, of Greenville, a survivor of the Hampton legion who added to the record of a soldier the exciting experiences of an escaped prisoner, is a native of Pickens county, S. C., born July 12, 1839. He is the son of James W. and Sarah (Thomason) Willis, and traces both his ancestral lines back to Revolutionary soldiers. He was reared upon his father's farm, and received an education which enabled him to engage in teaching school in early manhood. He enlisted in the Confederate service about June 12, 1861, as a private in Company E, Hampton legion, and served as such throughout the war. After faithful service with the army in Virginia, including the battles of First Manassas, West Point, Seven Pines,

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