The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-05-22
VOL. XlV---NO. 45.


This flag was presented by General
Longstreet to thePalmetto Sharpshoot-
ers few days before the battle of Seven
Pines, and was unfurled in that engage.
ment for the first time. In that battle
the color-bearcr and the eleven members
of the color guard were killed and wour-
ded successively in the attempt to u,,.
hold the colors. When the last of the
color support was shot down private
William Poe, Of The Palmetto Riflemen.
volunteered to carry them and acted with
such conspicuous bravery that he
was promoted to alieutenancy. The flag
was afterwards carried in the Seven
Days Fight around Richmond. the bat.
ties of Fredericksburg, Sharpsburp.
Lookout Creek, Carmel Station. Knox,
vile, Wilderness and opottsylvania.
THE CoLoRs OF THE FIRST SOUTH CAR.
OLiNA REGIMENT.
The tattered and bullet-riddled old
palmetto flag Of tho First Regiment was
brought up by the Irish Volunteers. of
Charleston, and when that gallant COM
mand and the Richland Volunteer Rifle
Company were ranged alongside of each
other in company front, Just above the
Register office, Col. James Armstrong.
formerly Captain of the Irish Volunteers
stepped out and saluted Captain Keenan,
and the Volunteers and greeted his old
comrades in arms. Col. Armstrong spoke
in substance rs follows
FELLOW SOLDIERS OF TIE RICHLAED
VOLUNTEER RIFLE COMPANY: It affords
me great pleasure to look again into the
eyes of your noble command. The last
occasion this pleasure was afforded me
was on the bloody battle-felds Of Virgin
Ia. You then held the position Of the
right company of Gregg's regiment and
well did you sustain that honorable and
pcrilous position. Among all the brave
men who marched TO the front in the
Confederate war and remained there un-
I'll the termination of our patriotic strup.
gle, J. feel free to say from actual obser.
vation not ono command surpassed the
heroic endurance, the splendid achieve
ments OF the company whose standard
floats over you to-day"
The survivors of the First Regiment
in citizens dress in charge of the colors
were then marched in front of the Irish
Volunteers and the Richland Volunteer
Nliie Company, which companies wore
badges indicating their connection with
the Same war regiment, aud Colonel
Armstrong presented the old colors, re-
citing 10 them Tint their old fiag was one
they might well truly revere as an ex-
cmplnr Of deeds of valcr greater than
those OF Cnsars legions or the grand ar
my OF Napoleon-a flag which had frst
iiuttcred III the breeze mt the beginning
OF the war and had never been lowered
during II four years bloody struggle.
Their old blue flag had never been cap
tured, and the gallant survivor who now
held its tattcred remnants for their in
spcction was the same brave Sergeant
Dominick Spellman who last boru it in
the forefront of battle.
THE PALMETTO GUARD,
OF the Seventeeth Regiment, S. C.M..
(now. First Rifles, s. G. T.,) which took
part IN the ceremonies yesterday, is an
historic crops and were identified with
The Confederate cause from the beginning
to the end. Commanding and serving
the Iron Battery and Cummings Point
batteries in the bombaydment OF Fort
Sumter on tho 18th and 18th of April,
1861, shey were relieved from duty al
that post on the Goth of April in order
that their company of volunteers might
complete their arrangements for going to
Virginia with Kershaw's Second Regi-
mont. This volunteer company served
the cause to the end. The present com.
pany rcorganizcd, after the departure OF
Captain Cuthbert for Virginia, under
Lieutenant 6. L. Buist, promoting him
to the captaincy. This company was de.
tached from the regiment on the 9Th OF
November, 1861, and served throughout
the four years of the war as an artillery
corps, excepting this last four months
when they fought rs infantry. The two
companies originated from one surren.
dered at Greensboro, North Carolina
April Goth, 1865, and show a long list Of
honored dead. They visited Columbia
TO pay homage to the vaior of their fallen
Confederate comrades. They brough,
with them their historic standards. The
first is the flag of the famous Second
Regiment, which was borne by Ensign
5. Gourdin Pinckney, of their Virginia
veterans. Next were the colors Of the
Palmetto Guard Volunteers, better
known as Company I, Second South
Carolina Volunteers, Kershaw's Brigade
Longstreets Corps, Army of Northern
Virginia. Then the guidon of the Pal.
netto Guard Artillery, known US Com.
pany A, South Carolina Siege Train, and
subsequently, Of Company b. Manigault'i
battalion, Elliott's Brigade, Ander.
sons Division, Stuarts Corps, Army
of Tennessee. The Company colors
were borne by the surviving officers O.
the two companies. They brought with
them also, the Fort Noultrie Centennia
! standard. Several of the old members O
company /, Second South Carolin.
Regiment, met the Palmetto Guard ant
escorted them. They came FROM Sumter
Stateburg, Clarendon and Fairfield.
CAROLINA MILITARY INsTITUTE CADETS
Colonel j. p. Thomas brought dowr
from Charlotte his corps of cadets. The,
were presented yesterday morning to hi
Excellcncy Governor Simpson, in few
| remarks by Colonel Thomas, who ex
pressed his qualification ct seeing TIL,
gubernatorial Office of South Carolina il
the hands of Carolinian who had eve
been true to his State amid all the temp
tations which had beset her people
Governor Simpson responded in hand
some terms, welcoming the cadets to the
soil and commenting to them the memo
ries which the occasion was intendcd K
make sacred. The battalion bore tue ole
colors of the citadel Academy of Charles
ton which were turned over to them By
General Johnson Hagood. s,
HISTORY OF THE MONUMENT.
A meeting was held in the Washington
Street Campel, November 4, 1869 by tn
ladies of Richland District, for the pus
pose of taking into consideration tn
erection of monument to the Confeder
ate dead of South Carolina. The meet
ing was opened with prayer by the Rev