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

Major A. S. Todd, of the Eleventh Bri-
gade, S. G. ", was brought down with
the Palmetto Rifemen of Anderson.
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 and the eleven members
of the color guard were killed and woun-
ded successively in the attempt to up
hold the colors. When the last of the
color support was shot down private
William Poe, of the Palmetto Rifemen,
volunteered to carry them and acted with
such conspicuous bravery that he
was promoted to alieutenancy. The flag
was afterwards carried III the Seven
Days Fight around Richmond, the bat
ties of Fredericksburg, Sharpsburg,
Lookout Creek, Carmel Station, Knox
vile, Wilderness and Spottsylvania.
THE coLoRs OF THE FIRST SOUTH CAR
oLINA REGIMENT.
The tattered and bullet-riddled old
palmetto flag of the 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 as follows:
"FELLow-SoLDIERs OF THE RIcHLAND
VOLUNTEER RIFLE COMPANY: 1t 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
we'll did you sustain that honorable and
perilous position. Among all the brave
men who marched to the front in the
Confederate war and remained there un-
til the termination of our patriotic strug-
gle, l feel free to say from actual obser-
vation not one 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
Rife Company, which companies wore
badges indicating their connection with
the same war regiment, and Colonel
Armstrong presented the old colors, re-
citing to them that their old flag was one
they might well truly revere as an ex-
cmplar of deeds of valor greater than
those of Caesars legions or the grand ar
my of Napoleon-a flag which had first
fluttered in the breeze at the beginning
of the war and had never been lowered
during a four years bloody struggle.
Their old blue flag had never been cap
tured, and the gallant survivor who now
held its tattered remnants for their in
spection was the same brave Sergeant
Dominick Spellman who last bore it in
the forefront of battle.
THE PALMETTO GUARD,
OF the Seventeeth Regiment, S. c. NJ,
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 bombardment of Fort
Sumter on the 18th and 18th of April,
1861, they were relieved from duty at
that post on the 26th of April in order
that their company of volunteers might
complete their arrangements for going to
Virginia with Kershaw's Second Regi-
ment. This volunteer company served
the cause to the end. The present COM
pany reorganized, after the departure of
Captain Cuthbert for Virginia, under
Lieutenant G. l.. Buist, promoting him
to the captaincy. This company was de-
tached from the regiment on the 5th of
November, 1861, and served throughout
the four years of the war as an artillery
corps, excepting the last four months,
when they fought as infantry. The two
companies originated from one surren-
dered at Greensboro, North Carolina,
April Goth, 1865, and show long list of
honored dead. They visited Columbia
to pay homage to the valor of their fallen
Confederate comrades. They brought
with them their historic standards. The
first is the flag of the famous Second
Regiment, which was borne by Ensign
S. 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,
Longstreet's Corps, Army of Northern
Virginia. Then the guidon of the Pal
metto Guard Artillery, known as Com
pany A, South Carolina Siege Train, and
subsequently of Company b, Manigaults
Battalion, Elliott's Brigade, Ander!
sons Division, Stuart's Corps, Army
of Tennessee. The Company colors
were borne by the surviving officers Of
the two companies. They brought with
them also, the Fort Moultrie Centennial
standard. Several of the old members OF
company I, Second South Carolina
Regiment, met the Palmetto Guard and
escorted them. They came from Sumter,
Stateburg, Clarendon and Fairfield.
CAROLINA MILITARY INSTITUTE CADETS.
Colonel J. P. Thomas brought down
from Charlotte his corps of cadets. They
were presented yesterday morning to his
Excellency Governor Simpson, in q few
remarks by Colonel Thomas, who ex-
pressed his qualification at seeing the
gubernatorial Office of South Carolina in
the hands of a Carolinian who had ever
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 commencing to them the memo
ries which the occasion was intended to
make sacre'. The battalion bore the old
colors of the citadel Academy of Charles
ton which were turned over to them by
General Johnson Hagood.
HISTORY OF THE MONUMENT.
A meeting was held in the Washington
Street Campel, November 4, 1869 by the
ladies of Richland District, for the pur.