Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1922-10-05
Major McGregor For
Prison Commissioner
Participated in the First and Last Bat
ties of the Confederacy

the State Democratic Convention to as
sembled at Macon, Ga, Oct 4th, 1922,
presents the name of Major Chas. E.
McGregor to the voters OF Georgia for
he office of Pension Commissioner to
ill the vacancy caused by the death of
Col. John w. Lindsay.
Major McCregor has been active in
all the political battles in Georgia since
1866 but would not allow the use OF
his name for any State office, prefer
ring to serve his friends until now,
when the boil weevil has reduced his
| income to where it will not pay his
taxes. VIII pride we copy from Vol
~, page 8l9 Confederate Military His
tory, edited by Gen. Clement A. Evans
the following extracts.
In his youth Major McGregor was
printer, an occupation he left in 1861
to enter the Confederate States SER
vice as first sergeant of the Macon
guards, commanded by Capt. Lucius
Lamar, Cat a later period Colonel of
the Regiment) Going with his COM
pany to Savannah they were mustered
inc the Second Georgia Regiment, vol
unteers, for twelve months service and
did service on Tybee Island His COM
pany firing of coast duty enlisted for
three years of the war, was detached
from the Second Georgia and ordered
to Richmond, Va, where they were
mustered in as Co. {. of the 9Th Regi-
ment, Georgia Infantry. under the com
mand of Col. Francis S. Barlow, and
sent to Gen. Jos. F. Johnson's COM
mand in the Shenandoah Valley Maj
McCregor participated in the battle at
First Manassas, July 81, 1861 where
his regiment was particularly distin-
guished in the battle of Dam No on
the peninsula and in the seven days
battle before Richmond in June 1862,
and with this his connection with the
Eighth Regiment ended, he being pro-
NOTED to first lieutenant in the reg
uiar army and detailed for duty as
drillmaster at Camp of Instruction. In
this capacity he rendered valuable SER
vice in Georgia. adjutant of the Post
at Macon and drillmaster at the Camp
of Instruction. In 1864 he aided in
the organization of several companies
for the fifth Georgia Reserves, of which
he was commissioned Major. In this
rank he took part in the Atlanta cam
paign around Lovejoy Station, also in
the repulSe of the Federal attack on
Macon. and was in the trenches around
Savannah when that city was beleagur-
ed by Sherman's Army. Thence retreat
ing into the Caro1inas with Hardee's
troops, he took part in the battles of
Rivers Bridge on the Salkahacthie
river, also Aversboro and Bentonville
and was identified with the army of
Tennessee in its last days, finally sur
rendering at Greensboro, N. c., April
18th, 1865.
Te was particularly distinguished
for gsllantry at the battle of Benton
vile, n. c. and recommended by his
commanding officer for promotion to
Coicne!. Major McGregor made bis
lone Macon a short time after the
war and then removed to Augusta, and
fro,,, t1,n,,<o 20 NN,-raa+a. ,,,la-a Lo
published and edited the Georgia Clip
per, which at that time was one of the
few Democratic papers that defied re-
construction legislation and gallantly
defended Jeffersonian Democracy He
conducted this journal from 1869 to
1874. Since then he has been engaged
quite successfully in farming in War
rem County He is an ardent advocate
OF prohibition, his county being the
first in Georgia to enact prohibitory leg
isla ton against the liquor traffic He
is an active member of Hardee Camp
United Confederate Veterans and an
aid-de-camp on the staff of Gen. Glenn
ent A. Evans commanding the Geor-
gia Division Major McGregor was
married in 1872 to Mary Lou Roberts
and has a son, L. D. McGregor an
attorney at Warrenton, and three
daughters"
Senator Watson's Last Utterance On
Georgia Politics
Constitution Bureau, Raleigh Hotel,
Washington, Sept 19th-(By Consti-
tuition leased wire)-Information today
OF reports that Major Charles E. Nc
! Gregor, of Warrenton, Ga, will be
presented to the Macon Convention
for Pension Commissioner to succeed
the late w. Lindsay, Senator Thomas