The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1896-01-29


ton, IL; no report, /: total number of
companies, 3G5.
Cavalry-Num5er of rolls complet-
ed, 62: number of rolls in prepara,
ton, u: no report, 2; total number OF
companies, 76.
Artilltry-Numoer OF rolls complet,
ed, Is; number of rolls in preparation,
9; no report, /; total number of com.
panies, 55.
The State of South Carolina fur
nished at least 500 companies, and
these it is estimated averaged during
the warin numbers 125 men to a com
pany, which gives force Of 81, SOC
men, besides the nine regiments of re,
serves, Of which we have no records,
which would without doubt swell the
number Of South Carolina troops in
the Confederate armies to at least 70,
900. An almost incredible number
when it is recollected that the arms.
bearing population IN the State in 1860
was estimated at about So, 900, and its
voting population at about IS, 600.
But while these estimates are conf
cently believed to be correct, the
State owes it to her honor to procure
and preserve the indisputable proof OF
the glorious manner in which she full
filled her obligation to the cause OF
which she was the acknowledged lead.
er. The rolls which we have should
be verified, and the incomplete rolls
should be filled up and the exact mum.
Der OF troops specifically ascertained.
But your memorialists further show
that besides owing it to her own hon.
or that the facts as to the number OF
troops should be so definitely ascer.
tanned and preserved, she owes it to
the memory of her sons who nobly
maintained her fame on hundred
battletields that at least their names
should be correctly preserved. She
owes this especially to the humble
private soldier, whose onl reward was
the consciousness of having faithfully
served the State ne loved so we'll.
The general historian Will tell OF
the operations in the field, and will
give, as far as the imperfect recods will
enable him, an estimate of the number
engaged and the names of the leaders.
The official reports and field returns
will give the names of officers. But
who will tell Of the hosts of privates,
our friends, our brothers, who with
bare and bleeding feet struggled over
rocky and frozen roads to fall un-
known in battle2 Should not their
names be preserved?
Your memorialists charge them.
selves with this especial duty to ap
peal to the State to rescue from obliv.
ion and put in enduring form the
names of those who without rank OF
reward so freely offered their lives IN
her cause.
On the monument just in front OF
the capitol these words are inscribed
"To the memery o. those who,
True to the instincts of their birth,
Faithful to the teachings Of their fathers,
Constant in their love for the State,
Died in the performance of their duty;
Who have glorifed Fallen Cause
By the simple manhood of their liGes,
The patient endurance of suffering
and the heroism Of death,
And who,
In the dark hours of Imprisonment,
Ia the hopelessness Of the hospital,
In the short, sharp agony of the field,
Found support and cons olation
Ia the belief
That they would not be forgotten
May not we, their surviving com.
rades. appeal to your Excellency, and
to you, the honorable members of the
General Assembly, to see to it that
those who so fell beside US in this be-
lief were not mistaken?
Your memorialists would represent
10 your honorable bodies that the rolls
now in the Adjutant and Inspector
Generals office, obtained as above
stated, sometimes only from the mem
ories of comrades or other unauthent,
ic sources, are no doubt often incor'
rect, not only from omissions OF
names, of actions, of wounds, imprlS,
onment and other casualties, but also
from the mistake in the spelling OF
names and of Christian names, and
that it is the earnest desire of this as.
sociation that the original intention OF
the promoter of this plan of supply.
ing the lost records should be carried
out and that the rolls, as they now
are in the Adjuiant Generals office,
should be printed upon cheap loose
sheets and distributed through the
State to the respective neighborhoods
and communities from which the
several companies were formed, so as
to allow corrections to be made and
omissions to be supplied by the fami-
lies and friends of those who nave
died.
Your memorialists show that re-
commendation was made by his Ex-
cellency Governor Tillman for an ap-
preparation for this purpose, but it
was not carried OUT by reason of the
great stringency of money at that
me-
That By joint resolution. Of the
General Assembly of goth December,
1898, the Honorable John B. Kershaw
Of Kershaw county, a Major General
OF the Confederate States, was ap-
pointed a commissioner to superintend
the preparation of these rolls for pub,
lication and to prepare appropriate
sketches of the various commands
from this State to accompany them
and that upon his death the Honora-
bic Hugh l.. Farley, formerly AdJu-
tant General of the State, has been
appointed to succeed him in the work.
That at a recent meeting of the
South Carolina Division Of the United
Confederate Veterans the undersigned
were appointed G. committee to memo
rialize your Excellency and your hon
orable bodies for an appropriation to
carry out this great work and 20 ena-
bic the Historian appointed under the
general resolution aforesaid to have
printed and distributed the expert
mental copies of the rolls proposed.
Wherefore your memorialists pray
that the General Assembly of the