The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1904-06-01
SOME WAR STORIES.
Bloodiest Records Made by South Car
DINA and Pennsylvania Troops
nURIEe TIE coNFEDERATE WAR
South Carolina Lost Twenty.three
Per Cent. aud Pennsylvania
Seven Per Cent. of Her
Soldiers

Mr.. J. Cotton Lynes, Of Company
81, !" First South Carolina Volunteers,
Maxcy Grege's Regiment, contributes
the following interesting article to
The News and Courier, from which
paper we clip it:
The bloody records Of the civil wal
show some interesting parallels be-
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 q t7itie over ! pei
cent Of her quota Of soldiers met deatn
on the battlefield. South Carolina
led the Southern States and sacrlnceo
over % per cent. Of her military popu-
lation as it stood in 1861.
South Carolina furnished the regl-
ment that lost the highest number
killed in battle during the war
''Orr's S. C. Ritles''-which piled up q
death roll Of 334. Maxcy Gregg's 1St
S. C. Vols. scores 2Sl, thus taking
the second place. Orr's Rifles was,
however, a much larger organization
at the start.
The first place on the Union side
was taken by the 5th New Hampshire
with a score Of 2s5 and the second
place fell to the SD Pennsylvania
regiment, which has a score OF 2S2.
The SD Pennsylvania's score OF killed
and wounded was 957, while the lst
S. C. 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
com mpanies that responded to president
Lincoln's first call and served three
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 Ist South Carolina Volunteers
had a 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
cres. ted and led by the same colonel,
Maxcy Gregg, who had been a volun-
teer officer in 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 a month, and almost to
a day, when Col. Gregg was getting
his Palmetto men out Of the old har-
ness into the new and touching them
up With his Mexican war reminiscent
ces, Col. McLane was doing the same
thir.g with his Keystone boys. The
SD was ready for orders in the fall OF
1851 anG the lst South Carolina also.
AT eAINEs's MILL.
Each went to it's respective stations
for assignment to place in line anG
both began their fighting careers on
the same day and on the same field,
within long-range rife shot OF each
other. The PennsylVanians number
ed about $50 men, the Carolinlans a
triae less. They were not directly
opposed upon that field, GaineS's Mill,
June 27, 1852, 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 meta!
tempered by the same heat. They
emerged with a neat result almost
equal.
The South Carolinians struck hard
Iines' in that hrst fight at Gaines's
Mill. They were brigaded with four
other regiments from the same State,
and Col. Gregg, as brigadier general,
led the whole column.
The color guard went down to a
man, and Col. D. H. 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 fling through the interval OF the
second line. The lieutenant colonel.
one captain and three lieutenants
were killed and FIVE lieutenants were
wounded, twenty men were killed and
i25 woun6ed-l54 in all.
The following four days the lst re-
giment Jared better at Seven Pines,
Savage Station, Fraser's Farm and
Malvern Hill, in which last the 1st
was not actually engaged, but its On
i ion double was terribly punished.
RAILROAD CUT AT ID MANASSAS.
The lst South Carolina was not en-
gagged again until the second Manas-
coe A1,orSt Doth where the Caro-