The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1911-05-12
JAMES d. NANCE CAMP.
Officers and Reunion Delegates Elect
ed-Resolutions on Deceased
Members

Al the duuudl uISSl4uS OA Iue odUCS
D. Nance camp, No. 336. Z. c. v, held
on Wednesday, the following officers
were elected for the ensuing year: J.
W. Gary, commander; J. F. J. Cald-
well, first lieutenant; D. A. Dickert
second lieutenant; M. NJ Buford. ad-
jutant; S. P. Blair, quartermaster; DR.
James Mcintosh, surgeon; DR.. S. G.
Welch, assistant surgeon; DR.. J. A.
Sligh, chaplain; William Johnson,
treasurer; ". c. Sligh, sergeant maj
or; B. F. Griffin, officer of the day; N.
H. Young, color sergeant; E. P. Brad
ley. vidette; R. T. G. Hunter, first col
or sergeant; L. S. Bowers, second col
or sergeant; W. H. Wallace, historian !;
W. G. Peterson, commissary.
The following delegates were elect
ed to the general reunion to be held
in Little Rock: M. M. Buford, James
Reagin, D. L. Epting, W. W. Riser, J.
F. J. Caldwell, W. H. Wallace, J. W.
Reagin, Levi Wheeler, E. P. Bradley,
Jacob Counts, Moorman Ruff, r. T. c.
Hunter, J. n. Bass, M. M. Harris.
These delegates were instructed to
vote for Macon as the place or next
reunion.
Delegates and alternates were elect
ed to the State reunion in Columbia,
as follows:
Delegates-J. N. Bass, R. T. C. Hun
ter, W. G. Peterson, NJ NJ. Buford, j.
F. ]. Caldwell, ". H. Wallace, Jno. W.
Smith, D. A. Dickert, J. G. Rikard, G.
B. Aull, W, G. Sligh, R. Y: Leavell,
D. A. Ruff, L. S. Bowers.
Altesnhtes- H Gai1lard, E. P
Bradley, w. G. Nets, J. E. Haltiwan-
ger, J. B. Reagin, Jno. C. Wilson, j.
C. Sigh, G. S. Moore, W. W. Griffin,
R. I. stoudemayer, A, H. Miller, N. H.
Young, D. L. Epting, J. Adam Counts.
The recent general reports sent out
showed that the James D. Nance
camp ranks fourth in the entire South
in point of membership.
On motion of W. G. Peterson, it was
decided to present a badge to Ned Gill
liam, colored, for bravery on the field
of battle at Fredericksburg, in re-
covering the dead body Of his master,
Lieutenant James Spencer Piester,
and bringing it home for burial. The
story of this negro's heroic devotion
is told elsewhere in this issue.
The following resolutions of re-
spect to the memory Of the late Adju-
tant O. L. Schumpert were adopted:
'Inasmuch as it hath pleased Him
who doeth according to his will in
the army of heaven and among the
Inhabitants Of earth to remove from
US Osborne Lamar Schumpert, adju-
tant of James D. Nance camp of Unit
ed Confederate Veterans, therefore, be
it resolved by said camp,
Il. That in the death of Osborne
Lamar schumpert this camp deplores
the loss OF most efficient officer and
most valued associate.
"2. That by that death the people of
Newberry ant of the State of South
Carolina have been deprived of cit
izen patriotic, brave, true and useful,
both in war and in peace.
"3 3.That the members of this camp
will ever honor and cherish his mem
ory.
-. And it is further resolved, that
page of the minutes of James D.
Nance camp be set apart and inscrib-
ed as a. memorial of our comrades
worth and of our appreciation of his
services; and that the adjutant of the
camp transmit to his bereaVed family
copy OF these resolutions"
| The committee which presented the
resolutions was composed of J. F. J.
Caldwell, James Mcintosh and .. A.
Dickert
The following resolutions of re-
spect to the memory of the late Chap
lain, DR.. Ebenezer Pressly McClin-
took. were adopted:
"Ebenezer Pressly McClintock was
a native of Laurens county; a gradu-
ate of Erskine college and of the Due
West Theological seminary; a soldier
of the Southern Contederacy and of
the Lord Jesus Christ In every rela-
ton in life and in every position that
he was called to occupy he was faith
full to duty. Therefore, be it resolved:
q. That in his death James D
! Corn, oP United Confederate Veterans