[668] which company he was made second lieutenant, and with which he served at Field's Point on the Combahee river, and was sent with twenty-five men to command a battery on Fenwick island. After the fall of Hilton Head he returned to Colleton county, and raised a company of 100 men, of which he was elected captain, and which was assigned to the Ninth South Carolina regiment of infantry (afterward known as the Eleventh regiment), as Company 1. He served with this company until the reorganization of the army in the spring of 1862, at which time he was made senior captain of the regiment. After the death of Major Harrison, at the battle of Pocotaligo, he was promoted to fill the vacancy, and on the resignation of Colonel Ellis, which occurred in January or February, 1863, he was made lieutenant-colonel of the regiment. He served with the regiment from Savannah, Ga., on the coast of South Carolina to Charleston, and the islands around; was then ordered to Florida, and after fighting around Lake City and below there, returned to South Carolina and was sent to Virginia, where he served two months with the Eleventh and Twenty-seventh regiments of South Carolina troops around Petersburg and Richmond. He was sent to the hospital at Richmond, pronounced unfit for further field service by the medical board, and relieved from duty. After the close of the war he returned to his plantation and has been a planter for twenty years. He was appointed postmaster of Walterboro, S. C., by President Cleveland during his second term, and has held the position under the changing administrations since. He has eight children living: Julia D., wife of William T. Williams, of Savannah, Ga.; Mary G., Alice H., wife of John Solomons, of Savannah, Ga.; Josephine, wife of A. B. Josey, of Orangeburg, S. C.; Allen C., Ralph Delancey, Martha P., and Ruth, wife of J. A. Kline, of Bamberg, S. C.
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[668] which company he was made second lieutenant, and with which he served at Field's Point on the Combahee river, and was sent with twenty-five men to command a battery on Fenwick island. After the fall of Hilton Head he returned to Colleton county, and raised a company of 100 men, of which he was elected captain, and which was assigned to the Ninth South Carolina regiment of infantry (afterward known as the Eleventh regiment), as Company 1. He served with this company until the reorganization of the army in the spring of 1862, at which time he was made senior captain of the regiment. After the death of Major Harrison, at the battle of Pocotaligo, he was promoted to fill the vacancy, and on the resignation of Colonel Ellis, which occurred in January or February, 1863, he was made lieutenant-colonel of the regiment. He served with the regiment from Savannah, Ga., on the coast of South Carolina to Charleston, and the islands around; was then ordered to Florida, and after fighting around Lake City and below there, returned to South Carolina and was sent to Virginia, where he served two months with the Eleventh and Twenty-seventh regiments of South Carolina troops around Petersburg and Richmond. He was sent to the hospital at Richmond, pronounced unfit for further field service by the medical board, and relieved from duty. After the close of the war he returned to his plantation and has been a planter for twenty years. He was appointed postmaster of Walterboro, S. C., by President Cleveland during his second term, and has held the position under the changing administrations since. He has eight children living: Julia D., wife of William T. Williams, of Savannah, Ga.; Mary G., Alice H., wife of John Solomons, of Savannah, Ga.; Josephine, wife of A. B. Josey, of Orangeburg, S. C.; Allen C., Ralph Delancey, Martha P., and Ruth, wife of J. A. Kline, of Bamberg, S. C.
Atlanta, Ga. 1899.
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