The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1903-02-18

rial Session Jan. %, 1908, ] wish to
correct some statements therein, to-
wit-he says:
"In the spring Of 1862 the Legion,
as Il separate organization, was broken
up, etc. Gen. lIamp.on's commission
as Colonel in the Confederate army
was dated July -, 1861. On the
23rd Of May, 1872, he was made Briga-
di.r Genera! al assigned to the tenn
porary command Of an infantry bri-
gadc, composed Of the Hampton Lc-
%.yion-eight companics-thc 18th and
10th Ga, and 10th North Carolina
regiments. He remained in command
Of the First Cavalry Brigade. Army of
Northern Virginia. etc.
Col. Wade Hampton, as l rcmcm-
Der it. was in command Of the aforc-
said brigade, to-wit: The Hampton
Legion, q c%ompanics) the 18th and
18th Georgia, and the 9th (not the
16th) N. c., infantry at Frcdcricks-
burg, Va, the 9th day of April, 1862,
when l joined that gallant band Go.
D, Hampton Legion,) and continued
in command Of the same until the
Seven Pines battle, where he was
wounded in the foot or leg. A day or
two after The battle Of Seven Pines
the Hampton Legion e companies,
not 81 was rcorganizcd and Capt. NJ.
W. Gary was elected Lieut.. Colonel
and j. Harvey Dingle Major and the
Legion was put in the Texas (Hood's)
J. igade, with the LIST, 4th and 9Th
texas and 18th Georgia regiments.
After the seven days battles around
Richmond we're fought, Capt. Pal
mer's company from Charleston was
added to the Legion, making the sth
Co. ('H"). So you sec that ecu.
Hampton was NOT in command Of the
brigade as stated by Gen. Butler until
the fall of 1862. The Hampton Lc-
gion infantry, to my certain knowl-
ege, vas in Hoods Texas brigade
from and after u few days after the
Seven Pines battle until about the
first of Nov, 1862, when the Legion
was consolidated with the remnant of
the old 18th S. c., thrown into
companies ri" and "K,") and put in
jenkins brigade at CuIpcppcr Court
House. Gen. Butler not being in
immediate touch with the infantry
part of the Legion does not remember
it correctly, but being all this time
with the Legion myself I know the
above to be correct to the best of my
knowledge and recollection.
Another thing I want to ask: Am
1 n Of the ''Red Bones" Of North
western South Carolina? ! sec in the
Intelligencer something from Lewis
Marshall, Of Charleston, S. c., to the
Washington Star, about q peculiar
people in the northwestern part Of
South Carolina--''thc most peculiar
people in the United States" known
as cred Bones" and that u company
Of them belonged to the Hampton
Legion in the Confederate army, etc.
Now, Go. D, Hampton Legion, was
the only company raised in this part
of the State, and ii we are the ':red
bone, peculiar people" mentioned, we
have been ignorant OF this fact for a
long time. Go. sd" was raised in
Anderson, Pickens and Greenville
Counties, and I suppose We are the
"red bones" referred to, as we we're
the only company rsfsed ID the north
western section Of tho State. He
says: "Thcy are very clanish, mix
very little with people not Of their
race, and in a manner are quite
thrifty. [ am Of the opinion that
they are descendants of the Basques,
of Southern France. They do not
lack courage, for a company Of them
sesaed in Hampton's Legion during
the 1ate Civil War, and bore them
seluosthrsSely at the first Manassas
and so. U Now, if Company 3D."
Hampton Legion. is not this peculiar
red bone people" who are they? But
the only nan in 60. D who had any
French blood in him, to my knowl-
edge, was John J. Riley, and his
father was Irish and his mother was
French. He was named John Jerome
-Irish, and his brother Philip De
Narrie-French. So you see, Mr..
Editor, if we are this "red bone Pc
'culiar people" we want 10 know it;
but one thing certain the most Of the
company were Of Scotch, Irish, German
and English descent.
Very truly,
VIM. F. Lee,
Go. D, Hampton Legion.