The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1902-01-01

fact, almost everyone tEen living prov
ed that gallantry on many Of those
battlefelds of the war between the
States, to whom may ask later to
refer.
make, two groups of them. First,
those in the United States army,
(regulars y second, those in the Pal
metto regiment volunteer Having
no rolls of the companies memory
recalls but few of the alumni in rank
and file;
REGULARS.
1. D. Camden DeLeon, NJ. D., as
sistant surgeon, United States army,
class 1888.
2. Milledge L. Bonham, lieutenant
colonel, 18th infantry, United States
army, class 1894.
8. Maxey Gregg, major, class 1885.
4. James NJ. Perrin, captain sur
geon, United States army, class 1843.
Palmetto Regiment-Staf Of Col. P.
NJ. Butler.
James Cantey, first lieutenant, Com
pany G, adiutant, class 1888.
James Davis, captain and surgeon,
class 1S4l.
Samuel MCGOWAN. private Com
pany E, captain, A. @. NJ, class 1S41.
J. D. Blanding, lieutenant, Company
A.. captain, A. c. S., class 1S4l.
COMPANIES.
4. G. Spain, lieutenant, Company
A, Sumter District, class 184l.
j. D. Blanding, lieutenant, Com
pany A, Sumter District, class 1SA1.
NJ. Murphy, sergeant, Company A,
Sumter district, class 1S41.
John S. Dyson, corporal, Company
A.. Sumter district, class 1843.
r. G. NJ. Dunovant, captain, Com
pany B, Chester district, class, 1912.
B. W. D. Culp, lieutenant, Com
pany B, Chester district, class 1S43.
= O'Bannon, lieutenant, Com
pany B, Chester district, calss 1916.
James Cantey, lieutenant, Company
c., Kershaw district, class lS43.
Preston S. Brooks, captain, Com
pany D, Edgefeld district. class 1889.
J. NJ. Perrin, sergeant, Company D,
Edgefeld district, class 1913.
adams, sergeant, Company D,
Edgefeld district, class 1913.
Whitfield B. Brooks, corporal, Com
pany D, Edgefeld district, class 1914.
J. Foster Marshall, captain, Com
pany E, Edgefeld district, class 1887.
William G.. Noraigne, lieutenant.
Company E, Abbeville district, class
1887.
Samuel MCGOWAN, private, Company
E. Abbeville district, class 1S4l.
William Blanding, captain, Com
pany F, Charleston district, class 1888.
- Kennedy, captain, Company G,
Fairfield district, class 1889.
Nathan D. Davis. lieutenant, Com
pany G., Fairfield district, class 1888.
Alex D. Sparks, lieutenant, Com
pany G., Fairfield district, class 1S45.
W d. DeSaussure, captain, Com
pany H, Richland district, class 1S45.
- Williams, captain. Company L,
Newberry district, class 1887.
It will appear that our old alma
mater furnished for that war to the
regular army one lieutenant colonel,
one major. one staff captain and one
line captain, and to the only regiment
of volunteers called for by the general
government from this State the whole
staff of the regiment to wit: Three
captains and one lieutenant, seven OF
the eleven captains of companies,
eight of the thirty-three line lieuten-
ants: that is to say. twenty OF the
forty-nlne officers of the regiment and
twenty-th out of a total of fifty
three officers in the Mexican war from
South Carolina.
Now [ make bold to state that no
college in the United States, either
literary or military, West Point ex-
cepted, can show such war record
of her studnts in either CT the foreign
wars in which our country has been
engaged, and doubt if any in Europe
can show as good in any foreign war.
Let me go little beyond the limits
of your toast and state that, of the
above four regular officers, (alumnil
three to wit, Bonham, Gregg and
Perrin, became distinguished briagdier
generals of the Confederacy: DeLeon
had then crossed the river, believe.
Of the above ten alumni captains of
the Palmetto regiment three, and
possibly four, had crossed the river
before 1861 of the remaining slx or
seven MCGOWAN became a brigadier
general, Dunovant, Marshall, DeSaus-
ure and J. D. Blanding became Con-
federate colonels: of the lieutenants,
Adit. James Cantey became Confed-
crate brigadier and Culp a colonel.
SO that the experience gained IN the
fields of Mexico by alumni officers who
we're living in 1861 supplied the Con
federacy with five brigadier generals
and five colonels. There were other
Confederate field officers whom | do
not now recall to mind.
One step further. # you will add
to the above alumni officers kershaw,
GLADDEN., Manigault. John Dunoyant,
Ebert Bland, S. NJ. Boykin, Joseph
Abney. J. L. Cantwell and Ormsby
Blanding, twho were not almunil
South Carolina gave Of her Mexican
!