The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1901-03-27

The inscriptions are as follows:
On the front, composed by Bishop
Capers, with grand simplicity:
70 her Faithful Sons at Chicamauga,
South Carolina Erects this Monument
to Commemorate the Valor They
Proved and the Lives They Gave Oh
this Battlefield.
On the back;
Kershaa's brigade, % South Caro-
lima regiment, Sd South Carolina regi-
ment, 7th South Carolina regiment,
9th South Carolina regiment, l5'h
South Carolina regiment, James's 81
South Carolina battalion: Killed, IS
wounded, 438; missing, l.
OF Manigault's brigade. 10th South
Carolina regiment, 18th South Caro-
lima regiment, consolidated: Killed,
26; mortally wounded, 40; wounded,
no.
Gist's brigade, 24:h South Carolina
regiment. Killed, 43; wounded, ia ;
missing, IL.
Culpepper's battery, wounded, a.
The total height Of the monument is
50 feet. The work was done by the
Stewart Stone Company, Columbia,
8. c., and reflects the highest credit on
their taste and skill.
AS soon as the monument is unveiled
Governor McSWeeney will turn it over
| to the park commission and'it will be
| received by Gen. Henry V. Bovnton,
the Chairman.
The ceremonies having ended the
crowd will dispense over the battlefield
| to study and admire it.
The Official trains will return to
Chattanooga in the afternoon, and after
time for supper, etc, the Veterans for
Memphis will speed on their way,
reaching that point early on the morn
| ing of the 18th Of May. The other visi-
| tors will take the tram for North Caro-
lima.
Around the monument is a IL foot
| circular pavement Of Gem mt faced with
granitoid.
The markers for South Carolina troops
are placed on the battlefield as folio VS..
KershaEs briasde-Oa the slope Of
Snodgrass Range, one for each of the
regiments.
For 10th and 18th South Carolina
| regiments the petition in general dur,
ing the afternoon is shown by the guns
Of Dents battery on the crest Of the
ridge. Advancing from this point, they
| made repeated charges on the enemy,
and the point Of furthest advance is
shown by the South Carolina marker.
For the 9th South Carolina regiment
the marker is placed on Kelly's farm,
near the "Bloody Angle" and near the
Shell monument to their brigade com
mander Colquitt.
Fer Culpepper battery, in the Poe
field, near the Georgia monument.
Isis hoped that Gen. Gorlon, COM
mander of the United Confederate Vet
erans, on his way to Memphis will be-
able to stop over and take part i'm the
ceremonies.
Governor A. G. Gambler, Of Georgia,
has been most pressingly invited and
writes that himself and staff will be
present unless pro7idsntially hindered.
The commission had to ix the day for
the un7eiling to take it on the way to
the Memphis Reunion. At the close of
these reunions the Veterans scatter and
it would be hard to get them together
for any ceremony returning. The re-
unions usually commence on Wednes-
day, but this year it begins on Tuesday,
which necessita:ed the selection Of Mon
day. This forced the commencement
Of the movement in Chickamsugs on
Snndsy. While twill not prevent the
great mass Of Veterans and visitors
leaving home on that day, there are
many who have conscientious scruples
against travelling on Sunday. The un-
yelling Of q monument is held as holy
On object as one could have, and would
certainly excuse al such. But the COM
mission asked for and have secured the
date of selling tickets to commence Sat-
urdsy, 80 any one can reach Chattanooga
from South Carolina before Sunday.
The battle flag around which the Vet
erans Of the 10Th and 18th South Caro-
lima regiments will assemble is the
WON and tattsred flag Of the 10Th South
Carolina regiment. It WAS saved from
surrender almost pro7identially. At the
battle of Bentonville, the 10Th South
Carolina regiment, then commanded By
Capt. R. z. Harlee, penetrated the en-
emy's line, but reinforcements coming
up, the line was reformed and Capt.
Harlee, Sergt. Albert A. Myers, bearing
the flag, and about twenty men, half of
the regiment, 80 reduced was it, were
cut of; they took to the swamp and
hid uatil night. Sergs. Myers threw
away the staff and put the flag under
his clothing. The party made their
way through the swamp and got back to
the Confederate lines. The remnants
of the 10th and 18Th South Carolina
regiments were subsequently oonsolida-
ted into Walkers South Carolina bat
talon, and 80 surrendered. When Col.
Walker returned from wounded fur
Tough he could learn nothing ofthe 10Th
regiments fsg that of the 18th South
Carolina being used asthe battalion COL
ors and at the surrender properly surren-
dered it as the flag Of the battalion. As
Col. Walker rode out of camp on the
way home Capt. Hsrlee handed him a
package, giving it with express stipula-
tion that it should not be opened until
be reached home When he reached
home he opened it and found it the asg
of the 10Th South Carolina regiment.
He hastreasured it most saeredly ever
since. The upper half Of the flag staff is
piece Of the flag staff Of Fort Sumter,
which was used by Msjor Anderson dur
ing the attack on the fort of April, 1861.