The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1899-08-30
STAFF Named,
The Governor Makes His Selec-
lions Known.
ALL YOUNG MEN CHOSEN.
Several Of Them Have Been Con.
nected With the State Mill
tia or Were in the
Army.


nounc,i the appointment'of his staff
The selections were made without re-
gard to politics, and the members OF
the staff are as rule personal friends
of the governor. Several Of them have
served in the State militia or in the
Cuban war All are young men, some
having barely attained their majority:
The following order was promulgated
through the Office of the adujtant gen
eral, who is chief of staff:
Headquarters Adjutant General S
Office.
Columbia, S. c., Aug. %, 1899.
General Order No. 5.
By direction of his excellency NJ. B.
McSweeney, governor and commander
in. chief of the military forces Of the
State of South Carolina, the following
officers are hereby appointed members
Of his staff, aud will be obeycd and re-
spected accordingly:
Adjutant and inspector general Gen.
J. ". Floyd OF Kershaw county.
Assistant adjutant and inspector
general, Col. Jno D. Frost of Richland
county.
Quartermaster general, Col. ". G..
Mauldin Of Hampton county.
Commissary general, Col. W: B. VIII
son of Charleston county.
Engineer-in-chief, Col. J. T. Folk Of
Bamberg county.
Surgeon general, Col. Y. J. Wanna
maker of Richland county.
Paymaster general, Col. Geo. D. Till
man, Jr., Of Edgefeld county.
Judge advocate general, Col. U. y.
Gunter Jr., of Spartanburg county.
Chief of ordnance, Col. L. j. Bris
tow of Darlington county.
A;des-de-camp-Lieut. Col. Il. f.
Gafney of Cherokee county, Lieut..
Col. Jas. A. Hoyt, Jr., Of Greenville
county; Lieut.. Col, Jas. S. McCarley,
of Newberry county, Lieut.. Col. A. H.
Moss Of Orangeburg county; Lieut..
Col. W. G. Hough Of Lancaster county;
Lieut.. Col. G. C. Sullivan of Anderson
comfy; Lieut.. Col. Willis J. Duncan Of
Barnwell county; Lieut.. Col. julius
Redding Of Charleston county.
By order Of the commander-in. chief.
j. w. Floyd,
Adjutant and Inspector General.
Gen. j. W Floyd was gallant Con-
federate soldier, having lost an arm in
service. This together with his natural
oratorical powers and his work in the
constitutional convention and in the
legislature brought him, prominently
before the people and made him adju-
tant generalin the last primary.
Col. Jno. D. Frost is citadel gra2u-
ate; was captain of the Richland Vol
unteers, adjutant and afterwards major
of the First regiment in the Cuban war.
Col. W. c. Mauldin is son Of Sen,
ator Mauldin of Hampton and bright
young man who is engaged in the rail
road business. Col. W. B. Wilson is
president of the Carolina Grocery COM
pany of Charleston. Col. J. I. Folk IS
prominent merchant and insurance
man Of Bamberg. Col. E. j. Wanna
maker, NJ. D., was surgeon Of the Sec
ond South Carolina in the Cuban war.
Col. Geo. D. Tillman, .Jr., is son OF
the ex-congressman and is court stem
ographer. Col. U. X. Gunter, Jr.,
formerly private secretary to Governor
Evans, is the assistant attorney gen
eral of the State. Col. Louis J. Brls-
tow is editor of the Darlingtonian. He
was first sergeant Of the Darlington
Guards and afterwards second lieuten.
ant of CO. "L," Second South Carroll
ma.
The aides are also rising young men.
Lieut.. Col. H. Fay Gafney is secretary
of the carpet factory at Gafney and
holds other important positions. Lieut..
Col. James A. Hoyt, Jr., is on the edl-
torial staff of The State. Lieut.. Col.
James S. McCarley is a progressive
young farmer in Newberry county.
Liept. Col. A. H. Moss was captain
in the Second South Carolina. Lieut..
Col. W. G. Hough for several months
acted as solicitor in the Seventh cir
cult, and is now senator from Lancas-
ter. Lieut.. Col. G. c. Sullivan was
ouartermaster of the Second South Car
olina. Lieut.. Col. Willis S. Duncan
was first lieutenant Co. L." First
South Carolina regiment. Lieut.. Col.
Julius Redding is son Of. Mr.. James
f. Reddipg, a we'll known Charles,