The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1904-06-03
Blosdiest Records Made by South Car.
oline and Pennsylvania Troops
DURING THE CONFEDERATE WAR
south Carolina Lost Twenty-three
Per Cent. and Pennsylvania
Seven Per Cent. of Her
Soldiers,


tween the record of regiments on the
opposing sides.
Pennsylvania championed the North
in the contest for first place on the
roll Of honor, and a trilie over per
cent Of her quota Of soldiers met death
on the battlefield. South Carolina
led the Southern States and sacrificed
over % per cent. Of her military popu.
lation as it stood in 1861.
South Carolina furnished the regi-
ment that lost the highest number
killed in battle during the war
"Orr's S. G. Riilcs"- which piled up a
death roll Of 334. Maxcy Gregg's lst
S. G.. Vols. scores 2Sl, thus taking
the second place. Orr's Rifles was,
however, Il much larger organization
at the start.
The first place on the Union side
wos taken by the 5th New Hampshire
with score Of 295 and the second
place fell to the SD Pennsylvania
regiment, which has score of 282.
The SID PennSylvania's score Of killed
and wounded was 957, while the 1st
S. G. Vols. has rolled up a score Of
$50 killed and wounded.
The SD Pennsylvania came into be-
ing as a reorganization Of regiment
composed Of volunteer and militia
companies that responded to president
months. The colonel, John w. Nc
Lane, had served as volunteer officer
in the Mexican war and distinguished
himself as master in organization
and drill.
The lst South Carolina Volunteers
had q similar history, for it was form
ed out Of the disbanded lst South
Carolina, OF the provisional army
called into being by the Convention
when the State seeded. The regi-
ment was made up Of the old militia
companies and volunteers enlisted to
serve the State six months.
This provisional regiment and the
one formed out OF it were both of them
created and led by the same colonel,
Maxcy Gregg, who had been a volun-
tter officer i'll the war with Mexico,
) and had acquitted himself as an able
disciplinarian and master Of military
tactics. And it happened that at the
very time, to Il month, and almost to
day. when Col. Gregg was getting
ness into the new and touching them
up With his Mexican war reminiscent
| ces, Col. McLane was doing the same
rhirg with his keystone boys. The
SID was ready for orders in the fall of
ls6l and the 1st South Carolina also.
AT GAINES'S MILL.
Each went to it's respective stations
r for assignment to place in line and
I, both began their fighting careers on
! the same day and on the same field,
within long-range rifle shot Of each
2 other. The Pennsylvanians number.
/ ed about $50 men, the Carolinians a
q triilc less. They were not directly
opposed upon that field, Gaines'S Mill
June 27, 1862, but were engaged fo1
the Whole three years in the opposing
, armies of Northern Virginia and the
Potomac, often on the same battle
ground.
No fanciful comparison could
heighten the parallel The regiments
started fairly equal, and both were in
the thickest Of the fight, with vary
ing numbers engaged and varying loss
eS in different battles against metal
tempered by the same heat. They
emerged with neat result almost
equal.
The South Carolinians struck hard
lines" in that first fight at Gaines S
Mill. They were brgaded with four
and Col. Gregg, as brigadier general
led the whole column.
The color guard went down to a
man, and COL d. ii. Hamilton took
the flag and called on his men to
stand. Gen Gregg, seeing the slaughter
and the uselessness Of trying to ad-
vance, ordered the regiment to retire
by filing through the interval OF the
second line. The lieutenant colonel,
one captain and three leutcnants
were killed and five ieutenantS were
wounded, twenty men were killed and
l25 wounded l5I in all.
The following four days the lSt re-
giment Jared better at Seven Pines,
Savage Station FraSers Farm and
Malvern Hill, in which last the lst
was not actually engaged, but its Un-
ion double was terribly punished.
RAILROAD CUT AT 2D MANASSAS.
The lSt South Carolina was not en-
gagged again until the second Manas-
saS, August 29th, where the Caro-
lima brigade was ordered to defend the
famous railroad cut, which was Stone
wall JacksonS key in that desperate
contest, The lst was sent across the
cut as skirmishers to meet an attack
ing column. Retiring step by step
under fire it rejoned It's line behind
the cut and helped repulSe the Union
charge, at times lighting the enemy
at ten PAGES.
Excited men often rushed ahead of
their ranks and grappled in deadly
combat officers used their pistols and
| fought man TO man. In the last hours
or moments, perhaps, of the hand to
! hand struggle the lst lost it's quota
for the day and came out minus "a
killed and ll9 wounded, a total OF l43
out OF 238 taken into the fight. It's
commanding ofcer, Major Edward
McCrady was among the wounded.
The next afternoon the SD Penn.
fsylvania charged upon the railroad,
then defended by other troops and lost
two commanding officers, wounded in
quick succession, and 20 men out Of
22I
In the Maryland compaign follow
ing md Manassas the lst South Caro-
lima regiment shared in the blCodlesS
victory at IIarper's Ferry, and later