Gazette and sentinel., 1861-01-12
Free State and Slave State Soldiers.

Inc lOhoWIHS paralIeI uraWn between the
fighting qualities of the men Of the Free and
the Slave States, and the real "pluck" which
South Carolinians are shown to possess, will
be interesting at this time
From Claiborne's Life, of Qnitman
an 1876 you carried Your FLAG into \
n%eighboring republic. We upheld it
The South sent forty thousand men to
the scene of battle /; the North sent
twenty thousand. Go ask the graves
upon those ~battlc-fieIds, and they will
tell you who occupies them. MasSa-
cIIusctts and South Carolina have been
sometimes arraycd against each other
| will run the parallel between them
Col. Butler, the brother of the Hon Mr.
Butler, the senator from South Carolina
who was so baSely slandered by a
foul mOuthcd abOlitionist, was the lea
der of the Palmetto regiment in the
Mexican war. General Quitman told
me, when an order came to him for a
regiment to engage in the battle of Cha.
pultepcc, Colonel Butlcr, who was sick.
went to him and said, Il demand RIGHT
to be in that battle Quitman replied.
'IOu can not go sir-you are sick i
am sufficiently we'll to GO said Butler.
Quitman remarked, Il shall see and
thercupon a physician was sent for
He declared him unfit for active service.
and General Quitman insisted that he
should not go. Il ask it then. as a fa.
vor, said Butler, and | demand it as a
right Go them said Quitman. He led
this Palmetto regiment on to the f@ht.
In that battlefield, two frec-state reri-
mentS ran while exposed to the fire Of
the Mcxican's but, stood this regiment
from my own state, swept by grape and
canister. That regiment stood, while
each man was writhing in the blood Of
his companions. Exposed in this fire
that regiment stood, firing not a gun,
lcvclinG not a bayonct. While men
were falling by scores they stood there.
loud chcers.) Free-statc regiments
hadaroken up and retreatcd. Most of
the regular army was cut up, and there
WAS nothing but disaster in the per-
spective. What regiment will follow
me I? said Shields. Colonel Butler re-
piled, The Palmetto regiment will fol-
low you (Chcers.) That regiment did
follow. Ere the leader advanced TWEEN
ty steps he fell dead. Scarce had the
regiment moved ere its banner was
struck down ; before it was fallen its
licutcnent colonel took it up, and ere he
advanced two steps he too was struck
Inu-n nathan fnAl- ~ an1 ,.nr,n HI
he raised it when he fell {: and while he
was falling a gallant Irishman took it,
it round his body, and bore it on
to victory. Enthusiastic cheers There
was a young ana college COM
of mine, and brother of my col
Col. BroOks--a lieutenant in his
company. When Shields said, What
regiment will follow me and Col. But
said, 'Thc Palmetto regiment will
you,' Brooks said, 'Ay, they will
Won to death With his sword
flashing, leading on his mon, this young
nan fell mortalIy wounded. When he ,
md his brothcr-my colleague-lcft
lomc, their father took an old family
and said to them, Take him {
along !; he may be of use to you here I
My colleague, struck down with Q
ickncss, was sent home. lie left this =,
Id servant to attend his brother. For I
days and nights this old negro lay Z
y the bedside of his dying young mas L
or. Without cessation, in camp and o
mid the rage of battle, he watched nv b
is side. The ball had pierced him :,
From the pcrforation Of the u
all came large splintcrs of bones.-- u
hose he gathered together. His young 8
laster died, and the regiment, in con- a
Iteration of his attention and fidelity. =
ought him a house and lot. The old '
cgro purchased n wagon for his mas I
IF, put him into it, and from the city of
%Iexico, he carried him to Vera Cruz,
he put him on board a vessel t;
Ound for the United States. From the il
ort of arrival he took him to his mas p
II, the father of the young man. He h
aid to the old man, gray-headed and
Here sir, are the bones which
assed from the wound of your dead n
on. Here said he to the mother, is =
he corpse of your son. Cloud cheers !,
nd this is the institution which is Il
andered by Northern fanatics."-Er- :
from Keith's Specch. Z
At the battle of Churubusco, immedi- :,
tely after the fall of Butler, while lead s
lg his regiment to the charge, Dickin- fc
IN was shot through the leg. The at
was not considered dangerous, =
ut, dcbi!itated by his previous suffer- G
lg and chatting at confinement, he final .
succumbed, and his inpatient spirit SC