The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1898-03-02

"nNn'!ri orc hundred and twenty 10
all. whlrh "a, more than half its mem
iar-lir.
In ,..r wilderness, battle, On May ;,
1851 tie ir,; led its brigade anl Ill
vision ~ an attack on the Union LIFT
OH the Orangc plank read, and at the
,an.r ii,ur IL donbic. the e.,,i Penn
%syivania. had the place Of honor in u
Union attack on the Confederate left
along The Orange turnpike, q couple
II miles distant. Both regiments SUI
fcred in the ensuing three days, the
lst with y loss nf %ristecm killed and
fourteen wounded. besides six Of
iiccrs killed.
At Spottsylvania u week later, the
lst, reduced to u handful, entered the
"Bloody Angle with its brigade, in
the f@orlorn attempt to hold its a%ssail-
ants at arms length. Its COMMANDER,
Wol. G. ". McCrcary, Of Barnwcll,)
and five others were wounded, the
second in command, diet. Col. w. T..
Shooter, Of Marion killed, (also Lieut..
l.. .. Shv;;vr and Capt. =. =. Dra;is-
ford, w. a. Kelly, James Armstrong,
I%.icu's. 4. + Miller and Al. r..
Ti,r.r.) and the ranks lost nineteen
klllrf. am! fifty enc wounded. At the
cn! u another week, after almost two
year % tli> eccentric .luoliiny, the
twp regiments met fairly ut Jericho
Ford, North Anna River, on the road
t" I;irhnprA. the 1T CHARGED at the
hcai cr Nctinwrn'- brigade, aud ran
into :: battery supported by tlr Penn
,yl.ania:... The regiments prapI.lcd
fNran instant. The commander Of the
Notrnl!na brigade was captured by Que
Of The Sd, az! The leader OF The lSt.
Major inos. i'inckmry .N-ton.) was
kilI,l in the %ln"lr". The Ist lost
twenty-five prisoners. the highest in
any battle Of its career.
Blnoly Cold IIarbor next following.
both escaped, and through the scigc
of Petersburg their lines ran separate
again. though with propDrtionatc
losses. Almost at the close Of the
wal the brigadcs to which each be-
longcd were supports to companion
brigades bat fought at White Oak
road, March 81, 1868, one week before
Appomattox.
The affair ended abruptly, and
neither regiment was severely engaged,
but the colonel of the LIST, (Col. G.. w.
McCrcary,) was shot dead by Il stray
bullet. This was the last death in
the regiment, and tho score stood PSI.
The record Of wounded closed April,
when the Major O.. d. BraiIsford)
commanding and one captain (Jamcs
Armstrong; we're shot down. making
$50 in all.
On March 81. also, the SD scored
PSI deaths. aud on April | added one.
making -, closing its record Of
wounded At the same time. So the
the ducllists stood, at Appomattox.
$50 against OIL CASUALTIES on the bat
tlcfcld, almost the maximum war
strength Of 4 regiment.
Vircggs Odd First" rs it was
called, was composed Of three compa-
MES from Charleston-thc Irish Vol
untccrs, the South Carolina Light In
fantry and tho Richardson Guards-
one from Cn!umbia--thc Richland
Foluntccrs-onc from Barnwell, n
from Newberry, one from Marion, ono
from Horny, n from EdgeGcld, and
one partly from Beaufort and partly
from Charleston. The original regi-
ment was the first regimcntal organi.
zation in Virginia, and il may be said
that the whole army Of Northern Vir-
GINA was gathered around its c%olors,
which were planted in the town of
Gettysburg, and which arc now in the
library in the State House, at Column
bia. BY special orders the regiment
was allowed to carry on it's battle flag
Port Sumtcr' 1T its first engage
mcnt, every company Of which it was
composed on it's reorganization in Ju-
~, 1861, having been present at the
bo%mbardmcnt OF that fort on the 18th
and 18th of April. 1861. The regi-
ment thus went from Fort Sumter to
Appomattox. where it surrendered un-
der the command Of Lieut.. Gel. 4. =.
Butlcr.-EH. Sunday Mrgs.)