The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1904-06-01
hes, SO suddenly as to throw it into

rics, SO suddenly as to throw it into
confusion.
The lst stood next to the rifles and
its commander Immediately swung it
around at right angles with the old
line so as to buffet the eneIny's ad-
vance. Again the tight ragged at arm
length, or few PAGES at most, ano
the regiment stood It's ground untlI
support reached the spot. This incl
dent of war cost the regiment I'VE
officers and fifteen men killed and four
officers and ffty-eight men WOUNDED
-eighty-two in all. Gen. Gregg was
killed in the gap trying to right
things. and another colonel OF the
brigade. Sanue! MCGOWAN, took com
mand, giving his name to the Or
ganiZatiOn.
The lst would have been wiped out
at Fredericksburg but for the return OF
it's wounded to duty and the Con-
federate system Of conscription.
By the time sStonewall Jackson, y
who was it's corps leader, was once
more on the war path the regiment
had picked up fighting strength OF
800 and started cut on Sunday morn
ing, May 3, TO drive Jackson'S wedge
to the heart Of Hooker'S citadel at
Charlottesville. 1t was not as plain
sailing as was expected, tor Sickles's
Sd army corps was moving in the same
direction just ahead OF the Southern
ers and would not be hurried even tc
suit Lees "Invincibles. The Isl
regiment passed in splendid line over
a bare knoll, at the base Of which
Sickles's men lay under cover. The
Carolinians stood it as long as man
could and then retired to line OF
breastwcrks, and the pursuers took
turn at punishment, and then at
test Ct speed in running away. The
1st held tic gIouno with loss OF
twelve killed and eighty-eight wound.
e6-one hundred in all, with seven
officers among the fallen.
ITS FLAG THE FIRST IN GETTYSBURG.
The Carolina brigade marched tc
the field Of Gettysburg in July, with
well filed ranks. Gen. A. P. Hill
was their corps leader in place Of the
dead but immortal Jackson. With
him they assaulted Reynolds'S corps,
in McPherson's Wood, on July J. AS
at Gaines's Mill, a battery confronted
their advance, and rained shell and
canister into the brigade, chiefly upon
the 1st regiment. The battery was
doomed. One piece was the prize OF
the lst, and they dashed forward
without a halt until their banner was
floating in the town, the first Confed-
crate flag in Gettysburg.
One day later, almost to an hour,
at the other flank Of the same field,
the SD Pennsylvania fought gallantry
to defend Round Top with a success
equal to the Caroinians in their
charge. The 1st lost one officer and
nineteen men killed, six officers and
81 ruen wounded-one hundred and
twenty in all, which was more than
one-half OF its membership.
In the Wilderness battle on May 5,
1864, the 1st led it brigade and di-
vision in an attack on the Confede-
rate left along the Orange turnpike,
couple Of miles distant. Both regi.
ments suffered in the ensuing three
days, the lst with loss OF sixteen
killed and fourteen wounded, besides
six officers killed.
TIE BLOODY ANGLE.
At Spottsylvapia, a week later, TIE
lst, reduced to a handful, entered the
Bloody Angle" with its brigade in
the torlorn attempt to hold it's asSail'
ants ct arms length. Its commander
and FIVE others were wounded, the sec
ond in command killed and the ranks
lost nineteen killed and ffty-one
wounded. at the end Of another
week, after almost two years OF this
eccentric duelling, tle two regiments
met fairly at Jericho Ford, North
Anna River, on the road to Richmond
The lst charged at the head Of Nc.
Gowan'S brigade and ran into the bat
tery supported by the Pennsyivanians.
The regiments grappled for an in;
slant, the leader Of the 1st was killed
in the melee and twenty-five men were
lost as prisoners.
Bloody Cold Harbor next following
both escaped, and throughout the
siege Of Petersburg their lines ran
separate again, though with proper
tionate losses.
Almost at the close Of the war the
brigades to which each belonged were
used as supporters to companion bri-
gades that foughtat White Oak road,
March 81, 1865, one week before Ap-
pomatcx. The affair ended abruptly,
and neither regiment was severely en-
gagged, but the colonel Of the lst was
shot dead by q stray bullet. This was
the last death in the regiment and
the score stood 2Sl. The record Of
wounded closed April 2 when the
major commanding and one captain
we're shot down, making $50 in all.
On March 81 also, the SD scored
2Sl deaths and on April l added l.,
making 2s2, closing it's record of
wounded at the same time. So the
duellists stood, at Appomattox, $50,
against Gil, casualties on the battle
field, almost the maximum war
strength Of regiment.
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