The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1896-01-29
THE CONFEDERATE ROLLS
UNITED CONFEDERATE VETERANS
MEMORIALEzE THE LEGISLATURE.

MEMORlALEZE THE LEGISLATURE.
Ask for Speedy Ail for the Old Soldiers of
the Statc--Eepa pairing the Records. Show
ing Wha. They Did in the War---An In
terestins Report.
General II. L. Farley, Historian Of
the Confederate Records, has prepared
his report to the General ASSEMBLY
The memorial of the South Carolina
Division Of United Confederate N'eter-
ans to the Governor and the members
of The General Assembly was fur
nished yesterday.
The memorial in full is as follows:
The memorial Of the South Carolina
Division OF the United Confederate
Veterans OF South Carolina respectful,
ly shows:
|. That by an Act of the General
Assembly, passed on the 30th day OF
January. 1892, entitled An Act TO
provide for the preparation If rolls Of
troops furnished by the State OF South
Carolina to the army of the Confeder-
ate States, and of the militia Of the
State in active service during the war
between the Confederate and United
States" it was made the duty OF the
Adiutant and Inspector General to col
iect the names OF all persons Of the
State who served in the army OF the
Confederate States or in the militia OF
the State in active service during the
war between the States. and to pre-
pare rolls Of the same corresponding as
near as may be to the usual form OF
muster rolls in military service, and
stating as far as can now be ascer-
tanned the name, age, place OF enlist
ment, company and regiment or battal
ion. battery or squadron to which each
person belonged, or position held by
same as General or staff officer, with
statement also of wound or wounds,
when and where received, imprison-
ment. death, discharge, or surrender
of such person at the end OF the war,
and any other particulars in regard to
any such persons which IN his jadg-
ment should be recorded.
It was also directed by the said Act
that the -Adiutant and Inspector Gen
eral should also prepare, or cause to be
prepared, brief sketch of each and
every regiment, battalion, battery or
SQUADRON Of troops furnished by this
State to the army OF the Confederate
States, or of the militia of the State IL
active service during the war, giving
the names of the battles7 sieges or af-
fairs in which each body was engaged.
The Act appropriated 50, 900 for the
beginning of the work, Of which the
Adiutant and Inspector General was
to receive $500 for his extra services
in the same: the balance 81, 500 to be
applied for stationery, printing, clerk
hire and postage connected with the
work.
The rolls when prepared under this
Act it was provided We're to be tran
scribed or printed into a permanent
book form and kept in the office of the
Adiutant and Inspector General, and
the rolls themselves to be filed IN the
Office of the Secretary OF State 70 be
preserved with other public records.
The scene in the House of Represen-
tatives upon the adoption Of this Act,
which was intended to supply as far
as possible the records Of the troops OF
the State, destroyed during the war,
was memorable one; the bill was
passed by an almost unanimous rising
vote. tears streaming down the cheeks
of many an old soldier then IN the
council of the State. The noble Old
veteran of two wars. the heroic Gene
raj Arthur NJ. Manigult, then the Ad-
iutant and Inspector General CT the
State, who was present in the House
at the time, caused at once the offer to
be made IN his behalf that he, would
do the work, laborious thought would
be. without remuneration; but to that
the House refused to accede, and as.
sumed for the State the burden and
expense of the undertaking.
Your memorialists further show that
the Survivors Association of the State
had Immediately after the war begun
the work of collecting rolls and ma
terial for the history of the troops fur
nished by the State, and all that they
had succeeded in obtaining was turned
over to the State and formed the basis
of the collection since made by the Ao-
iutant and Inspector General.
Among the papers which had come
into the possession of the Survivors
Association. and which were so turned
over to the Adjutant and Inspector
General. was the valuable collection
made by Professor VIM: James Rivers
of the South Carolina College, whose
zeal for the history Of the State was
equally alive to the importance OF the
great events of our times and OF the
war through which he had lived as to
those or our colonial days, OF which he
is the only historian. The most valua-
BILE of this material, given by Profes-
sor Rivers to the Survivors Assocla-
ton. were the names of the dead col
lected by him. This list he had made
I'D from all sources within his reach,
newspaper reports of friends and some
official reports. Thus collected, they
had only been pat down in alphabet
cal order, that is, the names We're only
collected together by the initial letters
so in looking for any given name nun
dreds had to be read. Gathered in this
way. and put down from time to time;
it was impossible but that it should
happen that some names would be re-
neated The Survivors Association
therefore in1S7O had these names re-
arranged lexicographically and fairly
written out. This work, supervised by
Professor Rivers and the executive
committee Of the association, presents
a rcIl of 10, 600 South Carolinans who
gave their lives to the Southern cause,
with an appendix of2,0OO more col
lected from sources not as authentic.
It is confidently believed, however,
that the number of these who dleu
for their State exceeds the number OF
1900.
The State owes, your memorlallsts