Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-05-14
coLoNELs OF coNFEpsRAcY.
Some Valuable information About Two
Regiments.

Regiments.
In the State Of Thursday there was
published sketch Of the colonels of
the Confederacy who came from
South Carolina. AS was mentioned
the list was not accurate, but was
published in the hope that mistakes
on the rolls and in other records
would be corrected. Mr.. w. H. Ed
wards Of Chester has furnished some
and Eighteenth South Carolina infan-
try not published Thursday that is OF
general interest. Mr.. Edwards says:
I'm your issue of May 9 the Seven
teenth regiment, South Carolina vol
unteers. is designated as q Fairfield
regiment, when In point of fact there
was but one company from Fairfield
In the regiment-Company B, COM
manded by Capt. Preston Coleman
and later in the war by Noah Buriey.
who died recently near the town OF
Walhalla, In Oconee county.
"The Seventeenth regiment was
composed Of the following companies:
A and D, from Chester; c, B.. e, and
K, from York: /, from Lancaster; q
and II. from Barnwell, and B, from
Fairfield.
EX-GOVERNOR ]. H. Means was
elected colonel. He was mortally
wounded In the battle Of Second Man.
nassas, late on Saturday evening of
July 80, 1862, and died at noon Of
Monday, September 1, 1869. +. w.
McMaster Of Columbia. who was elect
ed lieutenant colonel at the organiza-
ton, then became colonel and COM
manded until the close Of the war, or
until he was captured In the battle Of
Fort Stedman on the 25th Of March,
1856.
~. M. Gadberry was not the FIRST
colonel Of the Eighteenth regiment. 1t
was. organized with Col. Elford OF
Gieenville in command. He resigned,
however, and Gadberry was elected
colonel. He was killed on the field
August 80, 1852, and w. H Wallace
was promoted to the command Of the
Of companies from Greenville, Spar
tanburg, Union and York."-The
State.
A GRAND OLD MKs.--The South
Carolina people and papers are uniting
In honoring DR.. Jas. II. Carlisle, pres
ident emeritus Of Wofford college, who
celebrated his eighty-second birthday
on Saturday. He Is the best type Of
the old fashioned college teacher and
philosopher. He has no kinship to the
HlOu6rH prOIeSSOT WHO QO6S uOl kflOW
the names Of the young men he in
structs, and who thinks only Of the
theory he is imparting. He belongs
to the type Of scholar who cares more
for the man In the boy than for any
particular instruction he can impart.
He was a teacher who inspired his
pupils, won their esteem and obtained
their reverence. He knew them by
name, he was concerned about their
education and their morals He fol-
lowed them with a personal interest
after they had gone out into the great
world. and took the greatest interest
In their success and usefulness. Do
young men get half SO much in the
large colleges as the young men who
have had the good fortune to be In
structed by President Carlisle? One
such profound teacher with great
soul will do more to bring out all that
Is in young man than q dozen lee
turers who do not pour themselves In
TO what they are teaching.
1t Is beautiful to see the feeling the
whole state Of South Carolina enter
tains for its grand old man." as Pres
ident Carlisle Is called, and to read Of
the expressions of esteem that came to
cheer his eighty second anniversary
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