The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1915-05-14
A TRIBUTE OF RESPECT
10 CAPT. J. WISTAR GARY

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! Death, the merciless reaper, has
again entered our ranks and taken
from US our beloved comrade and
worthy commander of the James D.
Nance camp Capt J. Wistar Gary who
died January q, 1915. At the first
meeting of our organization he
was unanimously elected commander,
Which position he filled with honor till
the day of his death. Capt. Gary had
lived beyond the span of life allotted
by the Psalmist.
At the last meeting of our camp it
was made the privilege of your COM
mittee to write tribute on the worth
and service of tie life of our COM
mander; but it is sorrowful duty to
! peruse in public the record Of those
we loved in life but now gone to the
vale of the dark beyond But then
There is no deatl; We fall asleep
To awaken where they never weep;
We close our eyes on pain and sin;
Our breath ebbs out, but life flows in"
Captain Gary chose the medical pro-
fession as mis- life work, but after grad
uating from the Charleston Medical
college, during t1e spring Of 1861, tie
War Between the Sections began. He
did not hesitate to choose between his
profession and the call Of his country.
He joined Company B, Third South
Carolina regiment, in April, 1851, as
private and served twelve months as
such. During that year he performed
all the arduous duties incident to camp
life, never complaining, but always
cheerful. His ability and sense of duty,
! his earnestness of purpose and unfal-
: tering fidelity endeared him to all the
command. He was rich in that which
is most to be sought on earth, and
without which a life is desolate-t1e
respect and love of his fellow men.
! A man of probity, man of action,
kindness and worth, tie world is bet
ter for his having lived in it. His
death is the sad reminder Of the mile
stones which are placed along the
hig'- way of time with fearful GER
tainly and, with Confederate soldier,
with relentless frequency.
! At the reorganization of the regi-
] ment he became a captain of COM
pany of intrepid horsemen in the Sec
ond South Carolina cavalry. His blade
always flashed fearlessly in tie fore
front of battle; a leader whose men
loved to follow, let it be in the front
/ with the brave and fearless Stuart or
fighting as tie rear guard of the
knightly Hampton. The cause for
witch Capt. Gary fought and viii
met defeat, and history says was lost,
1T world shall yet decide,
in Truths clear, far-off light,
That the soldiers who ware the gray
and died
With Lee were in the right"
A. ~, o1oco &c +oa WOW with III o
remnant of his command, he returned
to his home to pick up the tangled
threads of life; to face aliens and enc
mics in control Of their own State,
with nothing to reward them but
grinding poverty, infirmities and scars
of battle. Yet they stood shoulder to
shoulder and breast to breast to re-
deem their country from anarchy and
misrule.
1t can truthfully be said Of Capt.
!! Gary: His life was gentle, and tie
dement's so mixed in him that Nature
might stand up and say to all the
world, This was a man." His most en-
during monument will be tne love of
his comrades, the admiration and
plaudits of women and children who
knew Linn, and the veneration of his
countrymen.
80, realm of tombs, but let her bear
This biazon to the last of time:
No nation rose so white and fair,
Or fell so pure of crime"
Be it, therefore, Resolved: That in
the death of Capt. ]. Wistar Gary his
country has lost loyal citizen, the
camp a kind and considerate COM
mander, his relatives and friends a
loyable and devoted member Of So
ciety.
!, Resolved, further, That page in our
minute books be set apart on which
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