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[925] army at Greensboro, N. C., on April 26, 1865. He was twice slightly wounded, at Savage Station and Gettysburg. He was in command of Company C from the battle of Knoxville to the close of the war. He served in Kershaw's brigade, Longstreet's corps, McLaws' division, army of Northern Virginia. Since the War his attention has been given to merchandising, farming and dealing in fertilizers. He is a member of James D. Nance camp, U. C. V., and has served one term as a member of the board of trustees of Erskine college and one term in the legislature. For ten years he was a member of the board of regents of the South Carolina lunatic asylum. He was married November 7, 1867, to Miss N. Emma Maffett, and they have seven living children, three sons and four daughters.

Captain John S. Wilson, probate judge of Chester county since 1890, is a native of that county, born in 1820, and was graduated at the South Carolina college in 1842. Three years later he was admitted to the practice of law, but was mainly engaged in planting until 1861, when he organized a company for the military service, which in August was assigned to the First regiment, South Carolina cavalry. Of this company he was first lieutenant, and was promoted to captain in the summer of 1863. With Hampton's cavalry in Virginia he participated in the famous battle of Brandy Station, and the cavalry fight at Gettysburg, where his company was badly cut up. During the retreat to Virginia and the subsequent campaigning he was at the front. In March, 1864, the First and Second cavalry were ordered home to recruit. He brought back but thirty-one of the ninety-seven who had gone into Virginia in his company. After filling up the command he was on duty on the coast, and later with part of his regiment was in temporary command at Florence. His service ended with Johnston's surrender at Greensboro.

Robert Wilson, rector of St. Luke's church, Charleston, is connected with the Confederate era by faithful service in the medical department of the army. He was born at Charleston in 1838, was a student at the university of Virginia, and was graduated in medicine at the medical college of South Carolina in 1859. First engaging in the

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