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After graduating at the head of the first class to leave the South Carolina military academy, Colonel Tew became one of its able and distinguished professors.
Removing to North Carolina, he established a military academy at Hillsboro, and when the time came for battle he was at the head of the second regiment raised in the old North State.
Modest, resolute, sincere, devoted to study and to work, he was an accomplished scholar, a true and noble spirit, and a resolute character.
General Hill said of him, while reporting his ability and gallantry, and lamenting his loss: ‘He had no superior as a soldier in the field.’
Knowing him well, we can understand how his efficiency at the head of a regiment and his fine attainments as a soldier, would make such an impression upon his major-general.
How many such men did the South yield up in willing and costly sacrifice on the altar of Southern independence!
The last guns of the Maryland campaign of 1862 were fired at Shepherdstown and by the cavalry in front of Williamsport, on the 20th of September.
In both these actions South Carolina troops took part, under Generals Gregg and Hampton. General Lee's army was behind the Opequon on the 19th; that of McClellan was threatening the passages of the Potomac.
The cavalry under Stuart, with Hampton's brigade in advance, had moved up the right bank of the Potomac and crossed into Maryland, at Williamsport, to watch and threaten the enemy's right and rear.
Advancing from Williamsport, Hampton met a strong force of all arms sent to oppose Stuart, successfully skirmished with it all day of the 20th, and recrossed the river into Virginia without loss at night.
On the evening of the 19th, General Porter with the Federal Fifth corps was at the Shepherdstown ford, with his artillery on the Maryland hills and his sharpshooters lining the left flank.
Under cover of his artillery, he successfully crossed a portion of his command, stormed the position on the Virginia side, drove off the infantry
Atlanta, Ga. 1899.
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