The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1881-04-13
DEA TIT or GEN. ". ". GARY,

lhc news OF ms death fGll upon this
{ community like thunder clap
though not personally known to many
OF our people, he was held in high
estee,a for his great intellect, moral
courage, and services which he had
rendered the State both in peace and
war. The Columbia Register pays
Gen. Gary a mcrited tribute. Have
You heard Of the death of "Liart.
Gary" VAS the deer sympathetic in
quiry on everybody's lips during the
day. The very day of the night Oh
which he died he was out as usual
among his friends, and nobody drcamt
tha: that night ne should lay him uown
aud die and that no more should we
greet the gallant and gamey Gary,
~ho bound his friends to him with
hooks Of steel. and no man who ever
lived had trucr and nobl2g friends
thai tti9 game proud son of the old
Palmetto State, which We believe no
loved with the same flial devotion
that he ever displayed to her who gavc
lin birth. let it not he forgotten
that last Summer, when it was feared
that the General would, under certain
temptations, have turned back in the
path, that his devotion for Carolina
shonc through all the compromising
surroundings and his brave Carolina
heart, though It's known he felt
wronscd and injured, beat true to the
blood which flowed through his veins.
And long and we'll and lovingly will
the name Of Martin w. Gary be re-
mcmbered by hosts Of friends in all
parts Of South Carolina-friends who
arc as good and true men in al the
relations of life rs ever lived. South
Carolina has much to be proud of in
Mart. Gary's l;fc and AL will say South
Carolina did owe him much; and
wherever his grave shall swell above
our soil, there the heart of manhood
will stay to drop an honest tribute to
the bold, outspoken, manly leader Of
our times, who never failed his State
and people in the day of need and
time Of trouble.
General Gary was born in Cokes
bury, Abteyille County, of an old
established family of people, who had
always been good citizens from theiy
earliest record.
We find that the General entered
the junior class Of the South Carolina
College in 1851. He did not gradu-
ate, however, and we find such men as
Robert Adams, T. B. Clarkson, j. G.
Colt, /. w. Woodward and Others in
the class. who also did not graduate.
General Gary, however, went to
Princeton, and there graduated about
1888 or 1854. Not long after his
graduation he began the study of law,
and for few months before his admis-
sion read law in Chancellor CarrolPs
Office in Edgefeld, in which place the
young student resided and where he
has resided ever since. lie was ad-
mittCd 10 the South Carolina Bar in
1865. Up to the war necessarily Cen
cral Gary had not reached the emf
nence IN his profession which he has
since done. He has generally been
considered Il brilliant advocate before
jury.
The young barrister was soon called
r. other conflicts than those of the Bar.
On the occurrence Of hostility between
the two sections he took the field as
captain of an EdSetield infantry COM
pany IN the Hampton Legion. At
the battle Of Manassas he succeeded to
the command Of the regiment, his
seniors being either killed or wounded.
On the reorganization Of the Con-
fcderstc forcca in 1861 he was elected
l.icutenant Colonel, and succeeded
Hampton as Colonel in 1862. The
regiment was mounted in '63-4, soon
sfter which Colonel Gary was appoint
cd q Brigadier General, and took
command of two South Carolina and
one Virginia regiments. lie continued
TO serve on the North side of the
James until the evacuation. He was
in command at Arpomattox, but new
er was paroled, retiring to General
Johnston's command in North Caro-
lima, and part of the time, if we are
not misinformed, accompanied Presi-
dent Davis, though he again escaped
capture