The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1905-07-21
No. xxx.

NO. xxx.
When the war between the states
began, my husband, 8. NJ. g. Gary,
lawyer of Ocala, was the eldest of six
brothers, two of whom, John II. and
and William F., were students In the
South Carolina College, at Columbia.
John II. was elected captain OF
the college cadets. who volunteered
to go to the taking of Fort Sunapter
and William T. was elected, a
lieutenant. Captain John H. was
killed at Battery Wagner, Charleston
harbor. in 1868, while in command of
a company of artillery of the regular
Confederate States army. William I.
served through the war and died in
Augusta, Ga, in 1904. He was judge
of the Circuit Court, and had many
honors conferred on him by his
countrymen.
Another brother, NJ. w. Gary,
lawyer of Edgefield, South Carolina,
with the first tOcsin of war proceeded
to raise company, was elected cap
tain. Joined the Holcombe Legion,
commanded by Col. Wade Hampton,
which did heroic service in the first
battle of Manassas, where Lieutenant
Colonel johnson was killed, Colonel
Hampton wounded and Captain Con-
ner disabled. Captain Gary then took
command and was in the hardest of
the fighting around the Henry House.
He was in most of the battles in Viz
GINA, and before the close of the war
was commissioned a major-general.
He was never wounded, never
taken prisoner, never surrendered,
never paroIed, and his command was
never in a battle at which he was not
present to lead them. He was one of
President Davis's escorts from Green's
boro, North Carolina, to Cokesbury,
South Carolina, where the President
and his cabinet spent night at the
home of his mother, and where they
determined to go on without any large
body of soldiers to attract attention.
Here in his native village, and at the
home of his mother, General Gary's
career as a soldier was ended.
FOURTH BROTHER ENTERS.
Early in the war a fourth brother
of my husband, DIR. Thomas p. Gary,
of Florida volunteered and was ap-
pointed surgeon in the Confederate
States army, followed by the fifth
brother, DR.. F. F. Gary of South
Carolina, who was also appointed a
surgeon and stationed at Charleston.
My husband was a member of the
Florida convention that passed the
ordinance of secession, and held
himself in readiness to enter the ser
vice of the Confederacy whenever
men of his age were called for, till
then he felt that with five brothers in
the field, his wife and four small
children, a widowed mother and two
young sisters, had claims ON him. But
when the army was depicted, and re-
Inducements were called for, they
said to him, $50, your country needs
you now, and we will trust the God
of battles to take care of u.s." He
raised company, was elected cap
tain, and for time was stationed on
the west coast coast of Florida; after
wards his company participated in
the battle of Olustee, and subsequent
ly being Incorporated with the Ninth
Florida regiment, commanded by Col
onel John M. Martin, was sent to Vir-
gina.
To be near him, and to be with rel
atives, went to Cokesbury, South
Carolina. There my household consist
Oh Of mvsolf four children and fonr
servants. The small pay of a soldier
in the army was inadequate to our
support. so after time my husband
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