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[492] on the coast, and occasionally met the enemy in combat, as at Pocotaligo in 1862. In 1864 he fought under Gen. M. C. Butler with the cavalry of the army of Northern Virginia, taking part in numerous engagements, including Hawe's Shop and Cold Harbor. In August, 1864, he returned to Charleston on furlough, and subsequently was on duty at Columbia. In the closing campaign of 1865 he took part in the cavalry service against Sherman's invasion, and was one of General Butler's couriers at the battle below Fayetteville. After the surrender at Greensboro he returned to South Carolina and began his manhood career in civil life. Studying law, he was admitted to practice in 1879, but followed that profession only two years, then engaging in planting. He has served as trial justice, as judicial justice, as United States commissioner and as treasurer of the county, the latter position particularly emphasizing the regard in which his integrity and ability are held by the people. Frederick Josiah Buyck, commander of O. M. Dantzler camp, No. 1107, at St. Matthew's, S. C., was born near that place, in Orangeburg county, November 2, 1842. He was educated in the schools of his county and was attending school at Cokesbury, S. C., when the war began. On April 11, 1861, he left school and joined the Edisto Rifles at Charleston as a private, in time to witness the bombardment of Fort Sumter. He served in that command one year, when his time of enlistment having expired, he was mustered out. He immediately re-enlisted as a private in Company B, Twentieth South Carolina infantry, then encamped on Sullivan's island, and served with that command during the balance of the war. At the time of the surrender at Greensboro he had reached the rank of orderly-sergeant. He participated in the following engagements: Battery Wagner, Second Cold Harbor, Deep Bottom, in the trenches around Petersburg for five or six weeks; Luray, Va., Berryville, Va., Charlestown, W. Va., Strasburg, Va., Cedar Creek, Va., Orangeburg, N. C., and Bentonville, N. C. At Cold Harbor he was detailed with two comrades to dislodge some Federal sharpshooters who were firing from trees upon the regiment, which object they succeeded in accomplishing. After the surrender he returned home to Orangeburg county, commenced life as a farmer, and has
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