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 GEN. WADE HAMPTON, 
 
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 THE W. L. 1. WAR MEMORIAL. 
 
 THh FIRST CONFEDERATE MONUMENT ERECTED 
 IN THE SOUTH. 
 
 Three decades liave nearly past away since the flag of the 
 Southern Confederacy was furled at Apponnitox, Va., and 
 at Greensboro, N. C, and it is only now, when the century 
 is drawing to a close, that the story of the Washington 
 Light Infantry war monument can be written in full. 
 
 The broad shadows of "the war between the States" 
 were yet resting on historic Charleston, when the survivors 
 of the three war companies of the " W. L. I." came together 
 in 18H6 and founded the Washington Light Infantry Charita- 
 ble Association for the purpose of preserving the memory 
 of their comrades who died during the war, and also for 
 assistino^ the families of those whom death or wounds, or 
 the results of the war, had rendered destitute. 
 
 From meagre resources this was done, and although the 
 sums of money so expended, were not large, the true senti- 
 ment of loyalty to the " Lost Cause," and sympathy for 
 those, who were suffering from its disastrious results, were 
 thus warmly expressed. 
 
 At a regular monthly meeting of the Association, held at 
 Masonic Hall, on the evening of the 22d September, 1868, a 
 resolution was adopted, ananimousbj, appointing a committee 
 to inquire and report " on the expediency and propriety of 
 holding a Fair, for the purpose of raising the means to erect 
 a monument to the memory ot our comrades who were killed 
 or died of disease during the late war." 
 
 In May, 1869, this Fair was held, and despite the then 
 impoverished condition of the community a fund of about 
 three thousand dollars was realized, and plans and estimates 
 invited for the proposed war memorial. This was in the 
 early years succeeding the civil war when the unexcelled 
 
re.sources of our State were undeveloped and tlio be^autilnl 
 Urcy i>-ranite of recent years was wholly uid^nown, for monu- 
 mental })urposes : but the sentiment was tixed, to use only 
 Southern nnitei'ial for the monument, and in executing this 
 [)urpose, a contract was made, for a monument of Tennessee 
 marble; a lot was purchased in Magnolia Cemetery, and 
 the foundation of the first monument to the memory of 
 any Confederate dead was laid. It is believed to be the 
 first war memorial erected on either side — Federal or Con- 
 federate ! 
 
 The Idth day of June, 1870, being the anniversary of the 
 Jiattle of Secessionville, James Island, in which the com- 
 mand sustained a heavy loss, was tixed upon for the unveil- 
 ing of the monument. Although on that day the weather 
 was lowering and the rain fell, it did not deter the citizen.s 
 of (Charleston from turning out en masse to do honor to the 
 memory of the brave men who had fought in their behalf. 
 At an early hour in the afternoon the principal stores were 
 closed, and the people began to Hock towards the City of 
 the Bead, and by five o'clock the streets of Charleston 
 seemed deserted of the population. The various Masonic 
 Lodges in the city marched to the depot in procession, and 
 w^ere joined there by the various Fire Companies, (in citizen's 
 dress,) the Carolina Rifle Club, the various German Societies, 
 and the Hibernian Society. A long train of thirteen cars 
 carried the crowds who flocked thither. Arrived on the 
 ground, the crowd soon augmented to over six thousand, 
 and the ceremonies began. 
 
 On the platform were the oflicers of the Grand Lodge of 
 Freemasons, Odd Fellows, oflicers of the Survivors' Assoei- 
 ation, and the Civic Societies. FromiiKMit. were (Jen. Wade 
 Hamilton, the Orator of the day; Rev. E. T. \Viid<lei', the 
 I'oet of "the occasion: Rev. E. (A Edgerton, CMia[)laiii of 
 theday; liev. A.T. I'orter, Major I)arker,and other citizens. 
 Col. Simonton presided. 
 
 The exercises were begun with a prayer, by Chaplain 
 F]dgerton. 
 
 Rev. E. T. Winkler then recited his patliL'tic rorm. writ- 
 ten for this memorial occasion. 
 
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 ■VlirrUS KT VALOK. 
 
 A gracol'ul pillur in tlie waste, 
 
 A shriiic to love and memory deai', 
 
 With arts and arms, and trophies traced, 
 The Eutavv guardians proudly rear: 
 liriiiginy the tender tribute here— 
 
 Tiie sculptured spoil, the laurelled prize, 
 
 Which to the noblest of her name, 
 
 Her foremost on the lists of fame,— 
 
 The conquered State denies. 
 
 For death may come, but duty lives. 
 And leverence and love remain ; 
 
 The sacrifice that nature gives, 
 
 When dust must sink to earth again. 
 Is not the rending of the chain 
 
 That bound us to the valiant shade 
 J>ut Honor claims the immortal urn. 
 For lamps that languish as they biiin. 
 
 And llowers that bloom to fade. 
 
 Amuml ihi.s trnipleij monument 
 
 What memories gather, proud and gramh 
 From tjumter's bastions brown and rt'nl ; 
 
 From Wagner's dunes of billowy sand ; 
 
 From lines whpre Johnson's beacons stand 
 Where Pinckney sways hi.^ realm nf blue; 
 
 Where every palm and every wave 
 
 Hccall the triumphs of our brave. 
 When 3Ioultrie's eagles flew. 
 
 Her own the trunks of prostrate pine, 
 
 Thronged nightly when the " chureli tali bKw 
 Her own the grasses of the line, 
 
 Once gemmed with bU)od instead of dew ; 
 
 Her own the century oaks that threw 
 Their shelter oer the jasmine flowers : — 
 
 I'.iit the sweet genius of the place, 
 
 lis joy, its beauty and its grace — 
 Its noblest life— are ours. 
 
n 
 
 Uc.-uiiic, >ort Niiture, tliy <li)inaiii ; 
 
 lloiil hloodini; lioiirts witli Imlnis of peace 
 
 iiiil keep wiUiin thy t;entle roigri 
 The inagie token we release, 
 Nor let that native virtue cca.se, • 
 
 To which this altar pile is given - 
 Its hase aglow with fields of fame, 
 Us slahs that guard eacli shining nairie, 
 
 it.- spire that flames to lieaven. 
 
 Alter tlif iiiixcilitiL:' of tlic iiioiiiiniciit, Coloticl SiiiKJiiton 
 inhiMliiccd (iciicral Wade I liuii|it()ii, w lio wa.s received vs'itli 
 Idiid a|.|ili(ii<r, iiii<l d(Tl\cl'cd tlic rollowilio; eloqiUMit 
 
 A1)J)RESS. 
 
 'I'iii' (Iciicfal, addrcssiiio- the Tresideiit aixl o'ciitleiiieii of 
 tliu Wusliiiiotoii Lio'lit Iiifkntry (Miaritaltlu Association, said : 
 
 In acceptinu' llie jiosition assigned to me by your kindness, 
 in tlie -solemn cereTiionics of the day, many and coniiicting 
 enKilidns stiire(l my lieaft. On the one hand, a painful 
 consciousness of my inability to discharge the task imposed 
 in a manner worthy of the occasion, oppresses me and bids 
 me keeji silent ; while on the other hand, a sense of duty to 
 m\- li\iiiu', ;ts well as my dead comradc^s, impels me to /join 
 ill this demonstration of honor to those who are sleeping 
 beneath the soil they gave their lives to defend. Let me, 
 then, place on their tomb a votive offering, which, unworthy 
 as it may be of our noble dead, has at least the merit of 
 coming Irom a heart tilled with sympathy for the cause in 
 which they tell ; admiration for their devoted patriotism 
 and heroic courage; respect and affection for their memory, 
 and prolound grief for their untimely death. There are 
 other motives, scarcely less potent, why my voice should not 
 be silent on any occasion where honor is paid to the living 
 or dead of the Washington Light infantry. 
 
 Have \ou forgotten, comi-ades, of tiiat gallant corps, — I 
 shall always remend)er it with jiride, — that when our State 
 called her sons to defend her, and that command was or^'au- 
 
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 ized, whose glorious l)aiiner, unsullied by any stain of defeat, 
 untarnished by any breath of dishonor, was borne so hero- 
 ically through the storm of nearly every great historic 
 battle of the war — it was the W^ashington Light Infantry 
 that gave me the first company of the Hampton Legion. 
 Can you suppose that I have forgotten the men of '' ('ompany 
 A ? " that company which for four years of heroic though 
 unequal war, stood always unshaken on the right of the 
 Legion ? Can I forget that devoted friend, that unselfish 
 patriot, that gallant soldier, that noble gentleman, Johnson, 
 who was your first and one of your costliest sacrifices laid 
 on the altar of our country? Can I forget the gifted Petti- 
 grew, who lived long enough to achieve an undying glory 
 for himself, but who died too soon for his mourning country ? 
 Standing over the graves which hold the hallowed dust of 
 so many patriotic soldiers, looking upon yonder tomb, wliere 
 are inscribed the names of forty-five of my loved and trusted 
 comrades of that single company, which you gave me, how 
 can I forget the men who fought and died by my side ? 
 Can I, turning from the lamented dead to the honored 
 living, looking once again upon the familiar faces of the 
 men whom danger tauglit me to trust — forget the friends 
 who never betrayed that trust ? Can I look upon CV)nner, 
 as he leans upon those crutches, which tell proudly how 
 nobly he discharged his duty, and then forget the Washing- 
 ton Light Infantry? Oh, no! my friends. Memories and 
 associations, such as these, are amongst the most cherished, 
 though saddest of my heart, and they bind me to my, old 
 comrades by ties which death may, but nothing else can, 
 ever sever. They remind me, too, of my duties to the dead, 
 and amongst them there is none more sacred than that, 
 which calls upon me to vindicate their motives, to praise 
 their patriotism, to commend their example, and to protect 
 their memory. These are the duties which devolve ui»on 
 us, the sad survivors ol" that gallant band who, at the call 
 of their State, rallied to her defence. Mourning over the 
 graves of "our slain." who, '^ for faitli and for freedom, lay 
 slaughtered in vain : "" standing amid the wreck of our dearest 
 hopes, looking at the ruin of our country, witnessing the 
 
steady l)nt rajtid overthrow of TJepublican institutions and 
 constitutional libertv. wliat is left to cheer n? to future exer- 
 ti(>n. lint tlic liailowc'd ineinories of the past — that }»ast 
 wliich was made so glorious In* our great deach Amid that 
 nohle and, alas, vast throng, none have done liiglier lionor 
 to their State, none deserve deeper gratitude, than the men 
 who died in her cause. Not until death has placed his 
 etei-nal seal u^ton the living, and stamped with his irrevocable 
 de<'ree all tlie actions of their lives, can thev he trulv esti- 
 mated. The judgment we pass upon our contemjioraries is 
 too often warped \)\ envy, jealousy, [tersonal dislike, or })olit- 
 ical ju'ejudice ; and it is not until death has closed their 
 career here that we can recognize the greatness of their 
 actions, or the integrity of their purposes. The men to 
 whom you dedicate this monument as a testimonial of your 
 respect, gratitude and affection, have passed this last dread 
 ordeal, and we deem them worthy to he enshrined in a pco- 
 })le's heart, and to receive the grateful ]»laudits of a ]ieo])le's 
 voice. 
 
 " A poiiple'.s voice ! We are a people yet, 
 
 Tho' all men else their nobler dreams forget; 
 Confused by brainless mobs and lawless powers, 
 
 We have a voice with which to pay the debt 
 
 Of boundless love and reverence and regret 
 
 To those great men who fought and ke{)t it ours." 
 
 They fought to vindicate the great truths enunciated in 
 "It!, and to defend those inalienable rights established by our 
 fathers, and bequeathed to us as our noblest heritage. For 
 these they fought in vain ; and of all the attributes of free- 
 dom, tlu^re is left to us oidy a people's voice, Avhich, though 
 stifled, calls Heaven to witness that we were sincere and 
 honest in the convictions which prompted our actions, which 
 still asserts our unshaken faith in the Justice of our cause, 
 and which, rising from every heart in our desolate land, 
 utters lamentations for the precious blood that was so lav- 
 ishly l)ut so vainly shed in our country's cause. We, my 
 friends, who were the actors in that mighty drama which 
 for four years filled the world's stage, may not be competent 
 to pronounce an impartial judgment as to the justice of that 
 
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 cause. Tinic, with its sootliinu' intluoiicc, nnist elapse, and 
 the passions (^'nii-cndcTrd hy tlie war must cool, before the 
 record can he fidly nnidc up for history to pronounce her 
 liiial verdict. Uelievinu- tliat Truth, Uii^ht and dustice 
 were on our side, we suhnnt our case, without one doubt, to 
 the impartial Judu-inent of })Osterity, reserving to ourselves 
 the right of appeal to the (ilreat Tribunal above, wdiere the 
 Suprcnu' Judge of the Universe, who reads our hearts, will 
 pnuiounce that decree, which will, through all eternity, Jus- 
 tify or condemn us. AYe know that the men, wdiose names 
 are written on that niai'ble, l)elieved, as firndy as they did 
 in the existence of a God, in the justice of the cause for 
 which they died ; wa^ know that they sacrificed peace, com- 
 fort, life, to encounter war, privation, death, at the call and 
 the service of their State ; and knowing this, we place them 
 high on the roll of those patriotic and heroic dead who 
 make up the great army of martyrs of Liberty. Nor should 
 their memory be less dear to us, or less honored, because 
 the}' fell in a cause which God, in Tlis providence, has seen 
 fit to let fail. The heathen may deify the conquering hero, 
 while lie condemns tliose who fail, to exile, chains or death, 
 for witli him, success is the onl}' criterion of merit; but not 
 so the Christian. Right, truth, justice, constitute the stand- 
 ard by which he measures all things. The test he applies 
 to the actions of men, is the law which God himself has 
 made. I^y this law, w^e can distinguish the lines which di- 
 vide right from wrong, as readily as we can recognize those, 
 which separate light from darkness. We know^ that in the 
 economy of (lod, evil is often permitted to prevail over good 
 on this earth. We see virtue trampled into dust by vice. 
 Wc sec lil)crty prostrate at the feet of tyranny. We see 
 religion superseded by fanaticism. We sec intelligence, 
 virtue, [jatriotism thrust aside, while ignorance, vice and 
 selfishness usuri) the high places of the earth. These are 
 the apparent anomalies which strike us, when we consider 
 the Almighty government of this Avorld. But when guided 
 by the light of revelation, we look more closely into tliat 
 wondrous system, and comprehend more fully tlie scheme 
 of that faith, which springing from Calvary, is lighting with 
 
Id 
 
 it.s sublime (ruths everv fornci- of tljo oartli, wc can recon- 
 ciU' tlio (liHicnltics wliicli stniid in our way. That relin'ion. 
 tauu'ht li_v the Sax'ioiii', w liich wc |irofess. nowlicrc pi'oiiiises 
 that wc shall be rewarded in this world for well <loin<i\ It 
 does not ]»roniise tliat virtue shall here triumph, while vice 
 is punislu'd; it does not j)romise that the cause of liberty, 
 sustained though it may be by truth, courage, patriotism, 
 will necessarily succeed when it has to contend with unli- 
 censed power, directed by aml)ition, hatred and fear. No 
 such promises are held out l)v the Divine Founder of our 
 religion to Uis followers. On the contrary, they are explic- 
 itly told that on this earth they are to look for trials, disap- 
 pointuuMits and afHictioiis : that tliey will often see the 
 powers of darkness holding high carnival of crime, wiieiT 
 they hoped to see virtue exercising her benign and peaceful 
 sway : that it does not come within the scope of the Chris- 
 tian religioi] to punish evil and reward the good in this 
 world, and that not until the last trump shall summon the 
 (juick and the dead to judgment, will the great Judge rectify 
 all the wrongs, punish all the crimes and reward all the 
 virtues which have existed since the foundation of tlie earth. 
 It is tliis sublime faith that sustains the Christian patriot as 
 he struggles to bear his own afHictioiis, or mourns over his 
 country's loss of liberty ; for he knows that if he has dis- 
 charged his duty to his God and to his country, he will 
 sooner or later surely reap an exceeding great reward. 
 
 Let us, then, my friends and comrades, cling with unre- 
 laxing grasp and unshaken confidence to the faith that is in 
 us. Let not the angry threats of oppression, or the syren 
 voice of temptation, drive or allure us to forsake it. Above 
 all, be not misled b}- that unmeaning jargon, which tells you 
 that your cause was submitted to the arbitrament of arms, 
 and that the sword has decided that cause against you. 
 The sword has never, nor will it ever, decide a principle or 
 establish a truth. It can, as it has often done, overthrow a 
 just canst', and make might take the place of right: but it 
 can never reverse the immutable laws of (iod. and make 
 what is evil appear right in His sight. A noble cause, up- 
 held heroically by honor, courage and [•atriotisni, may die 
 
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 iiloiig- with it8 sup})()i-ters. A o-reat truth never dies ; l)iit 
 eternal as the God-head tVoin which it springs, it lives for- 
 ever, amid all the changes of dynasties, the wreck of 
 empires, and the death of nations. It is, too, as false in 
 fact as in logic, to assert that the s\vord can or does decide 
 justly hetween right and wrong. With the sword, tlie 
 Goths and Vandals drenched the fair fields of Italy with 
 the best blood of her sons. It gave nearly half the world 
 to Mahomet. It allowed the Turks to trample out the civil- 
 ization of Greece. Its keen edge dismembered Poland. It 
 left Hungary bleeding at the feet of the oppressors. It 
 turned over Spain and Portugal to the tender mercies of the 
 tSaracen, and on this continent and in our day, directed by 
 unscrupulous power against prostrate States, reeking with 
 fratricidal blood, it enforces the laws which it alone has 
 made. Tell me not, then, that the sword can rightfully 
 turn the scales of justice. It is the exponent of tyranny, 
 not the arbiter of truth — the badge of the tyrant and the 
 executioner, not the symbol of justice. It is not at all 
 inconsistent with these view's that w^e, as a conquered people, 
 should observe scrupulously the terms dictated by the sword 
 and accepted by us. AVe can do this, and should do it, in 
 perfect good faitli : but we should claim and exercise the 
 God-given right of freedom of opinion. We acknowledge 
 that the cause for which these men died is lost, but we shouhl 
 be false to them, false to that cause, were we to admit that 
 they were, because of failure, necessarily wrong. We be- 
 lieve that they were right, and we therefore honor and 
 respect their memory. If they were right, time will vindi- 
 cate the action and record their fame. If wa'ong, 
 
 '• It was a grievous fault, 
 And grievously have the}- answered it." 
 
 We, comrades of the Washington Light Infantry, we, 
 who gave our all to the same cause, in which oui' brothers 
 fell, can entertain no doubt as to the })lace, which will be 
 accorded them in history. Stignuitized as rebels, posterity 
 will, we hope and believe, give to them the more ap})ro- 
 priate name of jiatriots. I>elie\-ing this, we fear not to 
 
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 accept, from tlic coiKjueror, the epitliet of rebel. < >nr iiiicct^- 
 tors had once the .siiiue term applied to them. iumI I accept 
 a.>^ a complete refutation of all dishoiioi' attached to the 
 woi'd. the iiohic language used in rciiard to it hy a great 
 statesnum and patriot of Kng-land. ••The term I'el^cl,"" said 
 Chas. Fox, " is no certain mark of diso-mce. Vov all the 
 great apostles of liberty, the saviors of their country, the 
 benefactors of mankind, in all ages, have been called rebels, 
 and Ave even owe the constitution, which enables us to sit 
 in this house, to a rebellion."' 
 
 Nor are there wanting men at the North, who, rising high 
 above the prejudices of their section, and the trammels of 
 popular opinion, dare to assert, in language as lofty, senti- 
 ments as noble, as those so eloquently ex[)ressed hy this great 
 orator. It was my good fortune, on a recent occasion in 
 New York, to hear one who would l)e an honor to any 
 country, address an audience comjtosed of Southern as well 
 as Northern men. In touching the great issues, which had 
 so lately arrayed the two sections in war, he drew a glowing 
 picture of patriotism. He told us how this virtue, beginning 
 with one's family, spreads in ever-widening \\aves till it 
 embraced all we loved as country: and then turning to the 
 Southerners who were present, he brought tears of gratified 
 pride to their eyes Ijy exclaiming: " And, gentlemen, the 
 only reasou why you will not hereafter be regarded as the 
 noblest patriots who ever lived, is simply bei-ause it has 
 happened, that George Washington fought in the same 
 cause before you did." 
 
 You, m}' friends, of the Light Infantry, who bear the 
 name the Father of his Country has made iminortal, must 
 feel your hearts swcel with }ialriotic pride, when you know- 
 that the great and good of otli«'r lands dceni you not un- 
 worthy to be placed alongside of Washington, ^'ou beai' 
 his name, and you have proved yourselves woi'thy to do so. 
 There are otlier historic associations of }»eculiar and i)roud 
 interest, which connect your organizatiou closely with the 
 great nanje it bears. Amid that grand group of revolu- 
 tionary heroes, who illustrated by theii' deeds in the great 
 rebellion of '70, in the history of South Carolina, no name 
 
is held ill liiu'liL'i' ostooni than William ^\'asllilll>;t()l^ the 
 wortliv kiiisiiiaii and follower of his illtisti'ious namesake. 
 On the bloody fields of Cowpens and Entaw, his glorious 
 l)anner — tlie precious gift of devoted woman — swept thr(nigli 
 carnage to victory. That same banner of AVashiiigton, 
 which had been consecrated l)y the })i'ayers of woman — bii])- 
 ti/.ed in the best blood of (/'arolina — sanctified by the cause 
 of freedom in which it had waved — venerated by our whole 
 people as the syudjol of victory, the ensign of liberty — was 
 committed by Washington's widoAV to the AYashington Light 
 Infantry, and her own honored hands presented it. When 
 she gave this flag, which her patriot husband liad so nobly 
 borne through the war of independence, she solemnly ad- 
 jured your company to defend it, if need be, with their 
 lives: to maintain its honor unsullied, and to be forever 
 true to the great cause — the cause of freedom — in whicli it 
 had first been unfurled. Afen of the Washington Light 
 Infantry, sons of men who fought by the side of Marion, of 
 Sumter, of Moultrie, of Pickens, of Rutledu'e, of Laurens, 
 
 of Hayne, of Huger, and of Washington, how luive you 
 kept that solemn charge ? Let Manassas and Secession ville. 
 and Seven Pines, and Sharpsburg, and Cold Harbor, and 
 Gaines' Mill, and Malvern Hill, and Drury's Bluff, and Fort 
 Sumter, and Petersburg, and Battery Wagner, and Benton- 
 ville, and C-hickamauga, and Fredericksburg, and a score 
 of other glorious battle-tields, inscribed in imperishable 
 letters on that immortal banner of yours, answer. You, the 
 men who stand here to-day, and those whose names are 
 written on yonder slab, have fought under the same flag, in 
 the same cause your fathers did, and fought with a patriot- 
 ism as lofty, a courage as high, a devotion as noble, as ever 
 animated the Iiearts of your patriot sires. You ha\e [>roved 
 that the blood which flows in your veins is not degenerate, 
 and that you have been worthy custodians of the precious 
 charge entrusted to your keeping. Be true, then, each of 
 you, f conjui-e you. now and ever, whatevei' trials, vicissi- 
 tudes, or sufferings beset you, to your lineage, your princi- 
 ples, your renown. " Let all the ends thou ainfst at l)e thy 
 (Jod's, thy Country's and Truth's: then if thou fallest, thou 
 tallest a blessed martyr." 
 
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 r>c'si(U's all tlicse iiicoiilives to noble actions, pi-csenle'd by 
 tiie ^reat traditions and hallowed nieniorios of tiic past, you 
 have many others connected with the formation and history 
 of your corps, and in the sacred ol)jects contempUited now 
 by your Association, ^'ou cannot forget that the Washing- 
 ton Light Infantry owes its existence to tlie patriotic im- 
 pulse which called its founders to repel foreign invasion, 
 and nuuU' them resort to arms to defend that lil)erty which 
 their fathers had achieved. Need I recall to your memory 
 the name of your first captain — a name justly dear to every 
 C^arolinian's heart, honored whei-ever integrity of pur[)Ose, 
 purity of life, power of intellect are esteemed — the name of 
 one, of whom Henry Clay said : " Of all the men I have ever 
 known, the best man,tlje wisest, the purest, and the greatest 
 statesman, was William Lowndes." On the roll of your 
 com|)any, illustrated first by this great name, are to be found 
 many others worthily distinguished in the annals of our 
 State, fit successors of your illustrious c-a])tain. Nor need 
 you fear to place the record you made for yourselves during 
 the late war by the side of that of any other command, nor 
 to compare the olficers and men ^\■hom you gave to the 
 " Lost Cause," with any who served the Confederacy. You 
 gave three general ofiicers — Pettigrew, Conner and Logan — 
 all worthily distinguished in that cause, and with them, as 
 field officers, Johnson, DeTreville and Simonton, while 
 almost every command from this State drew from your 
 ranks, so prolific of gallant soldiers, many of its most eflfi- 
 cient subaltern officers and men. How the i'aid< and file 
 of the Washington Light Infimti-y did their duty to their 
 country is told in mute but eloquent language, by the long- 
 list of honored names that meet your eyes on this monu- 
 ment, which you have dedicated reverently and attection- 
 ately to your noble dead. Well worthy are they of all the 
 honor you can pay them, for they surely fell blessed martyrs ; 
 and this conviction on our part is full of comfort to those 
 who see tlie names of their kindred written on the South's 
 roll of honor, that list which records her dead I 
 
 1 know how vnxw is all hunum consolation lo the heart 
 that is called upon to give up some object ai'ound wliicli tlu' 
 
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 tciKlcTcst altcctions eliistn-. F know that DUiiiy u |»areiit in 
 
 our inouniing: land, as lie looks through eyes blinded b}' the 
 
 ■tears that will well up from his heart at some loved name, 
 
 perhaps on that tomb, or some stone that covers all that 
 
 was mortal of one who was his pride, his hope, his darling, 
 
 cries out in the pathetic language wTung from a bereaved 
 
 father's heart : "Oh, my son, Absalom! my son, my son 
 
 Absalom ! Would God T had died for thee ! 0, Absalom, 
 
 my son, my son I " I can understand, I can feel ! — I have felt 
 
 all this. But still, feeling deeply for those who mourn their 
 
 kindred slain, knowing how and for what our sons have 
 
 died, cannot each one who has given his children to his 
 
 country, concealing the grief of the father in the holy zeal 
 
 of the patriot, say proudly, as he stands by the grave of 
 
 his son: 
 
 " Why, then, God"s soldier be he! 
 Had I ns many sons as I have hairs, 
 I would not wish thein a fairer death.'' 
 
 It is right and [)roper that you should preserve the mem- 
 ory of our dead heroes, would that we could erect to them 
 a monument whose foundation should be as eternal as the 
 great truths for wliieh they died; lofty' as their tame; pure 
 as ouv love ; lasting as our gratitude ; rising proudly from 
 the earth that holds their clay, and pointing with its spot- 
 less shaft to that Heaven where we devoutly trust that they 
 are now at rest, ft is a touching and beautiful article of 
 belief in that strange system of theology which takes its 
 name from its founder — one of the most wonderful men of 
 the last century — that those wdio fall in battle, fighting hon- 
 estly and truly for their country, are transported to Heaven ; 
 and though no such proniise is held out by our creed, it 
 surely is not inconsistent witli ils holy spirit or divine teach- 
 ing. Tlie trust of the jiatriot and the faith of the C^hristian 
 nuiy then unite in the hope, so full of joy and consolation, 
 that our dead patriots — " God's soldiers "" — purified l>y the 
 great oblation of their lives for their country's liberty, stand- 
 ing now in the presence of the Eternal God, looking down 
 with griitefu] hearts on this solemn scene, bringing their 
 prayers for you, who are now manifestinii' vour reverence 
 
and \o\\' toi' tlu'iii, t(» tilt.' Vi'vy t'ool-stoo] of llic TIiI'diu' of 
 Grace, ai-e iii\okiii<x witli devout su|)plieuti()iis from the 
 Father of Mercies, for yon, all those rich Ijlessino's which 
 lie, and He alone, can bestow. 
 
 Thus ended an early and memorial Confederate reunion 
 in Charleston ; among the first, if not the very first gath- 
 ering of Ex -Confederates ! When we look back at those 
 times, and recall the public conditions then existing : 
 adventurers from distant States and ignorant negroes, holding 
 the high cfiices of State, a Carpet-Bag Mayor in office? 
 elected by negro votes, before the legal right to vote had 
 been constitutionally bestowed on the freedmen — in ever}- 
 respect a most discouraging and offensive public condition — 
 but despite all these surroundings the W. L. I. acted I 
 The Survivors of the old Corps actually planned and built 
 a monument to their Confederate Dead, in such depressing 
 times ! 
 
 The successful result of what to the W. L. I. membership 
 was properly regarded as a great occasion, was to end in 
 disappointment, so far as the monument w^as concerned : 
 in a few years it became apparent, that the confidence of the 
 W. L. I. had been misplaced, that the Tennessee marble 
 had been polished up with varnish, and that the stone itself 
 was not suited to stand the test of our climate; it was evi- 
 dent, that the names of the W. L. I. dead, of the war, 
 would not be preserved to posterity, as intended, and for 
 several years, there was a growing disa])pointmeiit at this 
 unexpected result. 
 
 New conditions, however, were being evolved — and in 
 April, 1877, (tov. lLam[)t()n was recognized as Governor-elect, 
 and a new order of public affairs was fortunately begun. 
 
 The post-bellum organizations of a " Charitable Associa- 
 tion " and " Riffe Club " passed iiito a Re-chartered W. L. I. 
 as a military corps: its officers were commissioned 'ny Gov. 
 Haiiipton. 'I'hese W . L. I's of a new generation, backed l)y 
 all the old W. Jj. I. infiuences, undertook in bSSl the 
 renewal of the war monument, and the removal of the old 
 one, which had become ver\- unsin-jitlv. This, as it turned 
 
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 out, |)i(>\(.'(l a lar^-f iiiidci'taking, and iin'olved thirteen 
 years of elKort to aeconii)lish the })resent satisfactory result; 
 many })lans were evolved, and various resources appealed to 
 in providing" the four or five thousand dollars, with which 
 to rear tlie new and imposing column in indestructihle 
 (^ii'oliiia gi'ey granite, and its records in gun-metal bronze. 
 It is an honor to record some of the incidents associated 
 with the new monument. The ladies of C.'harleston were 
 constant and devoted to this new Confederate work ; thei/ 
 have iicrcv faded their Jhig.'s ; the General Asseml)ly of South 
 (Carolina voted to the C/orps a battle-scarred Confederate 
 field-piece, for easting the five panels, one of which has 
 been moidded into the C'Oat-of-Arms of the State, and 
 adorns and symbolizes the south front of the column. The 
 ('ity Council in 1890, voted a site, in Washington Square, 
 for this war memorial — the most central, desirable and 
 appi'opriate in the city, and in the ensuing year sufficient 
 progress had been made to begin this patriotic Company 
 work. The following invitation was issued in anticipation 
 of Washington's Birtliday, 1891 : 
 
 Charleston, S. C, February 10, 1^91. 
 
 The honor of your presence is requested at the Ceremony of the Laying 
 of Corner Stone of the New Monument of The Washington Light 
 Infantry, in Washington Square, on Monday, the 23rd day of February, 
 18'.)1, at eleven o'clock A. M. 
 
 Chas. H. Simonton, Chairman, Ex-Captain and President AV. L. I. 
 Veteran Association. C. P Poppenheim, Frank E. Taylor, T. S. Inglesby, 
 Comj«iny A., Hampton Legion Infantry, A N. V. .1. L. Honour, J. L. 
 Shcppard, Wm. E. Holmes, Company A, 2r)lh S. C. V. Henry I. Greer, 
 T. (J. Simons, M. D., A. Walton Taft, Company B, 25th S. C. V. Lewis 
 M. Hatch, Ex-Capt. and Senior Member. [1835.] Wm. A. Courtenay, 
 Ex-Captain. R. C. (rilchrist. Major \V. L. I. Battalion. A. W. Marshall, 
 Capt. Company A, W. L. I. Battalion. G. B. Edwards, Ex-Lieut., Secretary 
 and Treasurer. 
 
 IN IMl'EKlSll.VBLE GRANITE AND BRONZE. 
 
 The ceremonies on Washington's Birthday, in respect to 
 the large audience assembled, and the dee[) interest mani- 
 fested were most impressive. The ladies of Charleston 
 were [)resent in large numbers, and the windows and bal- 
 conies of the City Hall and Fire-Proof Building and the 
 spacious piazza of FiX-(3a})t. Henry Kavenel's former resi- 
 dence was crowded with fair spectators. 
 
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 Promptly at 11 o'clock the military arrived, iiiidcr coiii- 
 maiid ot" Major Gilchrist. 
 
 Tlie IJultalion of Citadel C-adets, as escort, under com- 
 iiiaiid of Lieut. J. A. Towers, U. S. A. 
 
 First Company, Capt. Frost. 
 
 Second Company, Capt. Blythe. 
 
 Third Company, Capt. Maiildin. 
 
 Fourth Company, Capt. Whaley. 
 
 Fifth Company, Lieut. McCully. 
 
 Sixth Company, Lieut. Robertson. 
 
 W. L. L, Company A., Capt. Marshall. 
 
 W. L. I., Company B., Lieut. Cogswell. 
 Judge Simonton presided. On the platform were Ex- 
 Gov. Hagood, Ex-^Sfayor Courtenay, Col. Coward, C^ol. Z. 
 Davis, Maj. J. F. Hart, Capt. James Armstrong, J. L. 
 Honour and the W. L. I. Veteran Association, ('apt. 
 Samuel Lord, Rev. C. S. Vedder, Prof. V. C. Dibble, Rev. 
 E. C. Dargan. 
 
 Two tlags, the Palmetto and the Stars and Stripes, were 
 raised from poles erected at the north and south extrem- 
 ities of the enclosure — the emblems of fealty to tlie State 
 and the Union. Over the northeast corner of the Monu- 
 ment's base the " Courtenay Colors " were lioisted, and just 
 l)efore Maj. Gilchrist (in the absence of Judge Simonton, 
 who was detained at home by reason of indisposition) 
 addressed the assembly, the standard-bearers advanced with 
 the historic ensign of the Company, the (^ol. Wm. Wash- 
 ington Hag of the first Revolution stood in line on tlic base 
 oT the Monnnicnt. 
 
 MAJ. GILCHRIST 
 
 then delivered the following address: 
 
 Ladies and Gentlemen^ and Felloni-soldiers : 
 
 The first Monument erected in the South (and perhaps in 
 the United States) to the dead of the war between the States 
 was that reared in Magnolia Cemetery by the Washington 
 Liglit Infantry to perpetuate the memories of theii" dead 
 comrades, fourteen officers and 10() privates, in IS"". 
 
 The war ende(l in .hine, l<S(j,5, with tlie sun-ender of John- 
 
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 stoii to Slu'rinan, l>ut I'c'tuniinii' peace' t'ontid the survivors 
 of tlie two compiiules of the Washington Light Intantry 
 captured at Fort Fisher, inmates of prison pens and forts 
 at the Xorth, and the others of Company A, Hampton Le- 
 gion, wending their weary way to desohited homes. Hut no 
 sooner did they come together in their dear old " City by 
 the Sea," though military rule held high carnival here, and 
 all avenues of trade were tilled and controlled by aliens and 
 strangers, even in 18(15, we find the earnest spmt of the 
 Washington Light Lifantry active for rennion. It seemed 
 to them a sacred duty to cherish the memories of those Avho 
 had toiled with them in the weary march, stood by them on 
 the crimson tield of battle, and had laid down their lives in 
 obedience to the call of duty, and in pledge of their sincer- 
 ity. And, even more sacred still was the obligation to pro- 
 vide for the widows and orphans of their dear dead com- 
 rades. 
 
 The very first organization of Ex-Confederate soldiers 
 was the Washington Light Infantry Charitable Association, 
 founded in the early part of 18<;)6, in obedience to this sen- 
 timent of duty. The first practical work undertaken was 
 to care for the living, the widows and orphans of the 
 Washington Light Infantry. For a long time the only 
 Confederate pensioners were these. From a small begin- 
 ning this has grown to a noble charity, and to-day thirty- 
 one ladies receive substantial assistance. But while pro- 
 viding for the living they could not forget their dead ; so 
 they laboriously and persistently accumulated a fund with 
 which to build a Monument. A successful Fair, given in 
 1868, made the effort practicable, and in 1870 the Monu- 
 ment of what was represented to be Tennessee marble, but 
 which has proved but l)rown sandstone, was reared in Mag- 
 nolia Cemetery. 
 
 It was with pride and pleasure that the Washington 
 Lio-ht Infantry saw their long-cherished desires crowned 
 with success, and they thought that the names of their 
 comrades who had died in battle, in hospital or on the 
 wearv wayside, would be lianded down to many succeeding 
 >;-enerations. 
 
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 Alas I the Monument erected by pious handi^ has not 
 accomplished the end for which designed. Not a decade 
 had [)assed when it was discovered that the disintegrating 
 effect at the seacoast climate was eating away the soft 
 material of whicfi it is composed. The record on its sides 
 became each flay more illegiljle, and it was too evident that 
 in a few years longer it would crumlde into dust. Notliing 
 remained to be done but to replace it with a memorial 
 obelisk oi gray granite from our own native hills, with the 
 heroic names of the '' unreturning brave " preserved to 
 posterity in imperishable bronze. Silently and persistently, 
 for years back, this object has been kept in view and 
 striven for. 
 
 The fund gradually accumulated under the judicious man- 
 agement of Ex-^vapt. Courtenay and Major Edwards. Ever 
 generous and patriotic woman rendered effective assistance. 
 'I'lie rrcneral Assembly of South C'arolina unanimously con- 
 tributed a brass Napoleon field-piece that had done good ser- 
 vice in the Confederate war, and bore upon its muzzle the 
 scars of battle, for the material of the memorial tablets, and 
 the City Council kindly donated this appropriate site for an 
 enduring record of the constancy and faithfulness to duty of 
 those who " were of the very flower of this aneient city, 
 her young hope and fair renown,'" and to-day, with the 
 sim])le sacrifice of prayer alone, tlie corner-stone is laid, 
 postponing the more important ceremonies to the day when 
 the com|>leted Monument shall be unveiled, whi< li will 
 commemorate the anniversary of the day when the first 
 blood of the Washington Light fjifantry was spilt and four 
 members of Company A, Hampton Legion, laid down tlieir 
 lives oi, the soil of \"irginia in defence of the Southland. 
 
 THE chaplain's I'KAVKR, 
 
 Tlic Uev. A. Toomer I'orter, the venerable Chaplain ol' 
 Ihe W'iisbiiigioii Light Infantry Uatlalion. made the follow- 
 ing brief bill loiiching prayei' : 
 
 Almighly (Jod, our Meaveidy l^'ather, whet dost go\c'i-n all 
 things in heaven and'^ earth, we. Thine unworthy servants, 
 acknowledge oiir dependence u})on Thee in all tilings, and 
 
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 ask Thy hlessiiiii- on all that we do. We are Iktc in Tliy 
 [ireseiict.' to lay tlir conier-stoiio of a Moiminciit which \vc 
 hope will last for many t;'enerations, kee})ing alive the 
 memory of those who died in the conscientious discharii-c 
 of duties laid upon them hy their State. Wo thaidv Thee 
 for the good example of all those who having finished their 
 course in faith do now rest from their labors. We pray 
 that we be }iermitted to emphasize and perpetuate tlieir 
 examj)le by building this Monument, and that it may serve 
 as a constant memorial to teach all who look upon it that it 
 is noble to give up even life foi- the maintenance of what 
 we believe to be right. Grant us to whom is committed 
 the duty of meeting the issues of the present, and to lay the 
 foumlations of peace, wealth and pros})erity for the future, 
 that we may ha\e the wisdom to work according to Thy 
 will, that we may both perceive and know what things we 
 ought to do and also may have grace and power faithfully 
 to fulfil tlie same, tlirough Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. 
 
 TUE TWO CORNER-STONE BOXES. 
 
 The copper box, taken from the corner-stone of the first 
 war Monument in Magnolia, was then dejiosited V»y Miss 
 Ijilly Honour in the opening left for that jturpose at the 
 northeast corner of the base of the new memorial, and by 
 its side the new box was placed in its position by Mi's. 
 George M. Trenholm, and as St. Michael's bells ehimed om 
 the hour of midday tiie corner-stone was lowered and 
 cemented, the band })laying '' Dixie." 
 
 "^riie new box contained a large assortment of relics in 
 the shape of the following [irinted matter: 
 
 Gen. llainpton"s oi'ation and the llev. Dr. Wiid<ler"s 
 [toeni at the unveiling of the tirst Monument. . I une. bsjo. 
 Uanuer Song W. L. I. 
 
 W. L. I. Memorial Proceedings — \V. D. Porter's A. O. 
 Andrew's, Jas. Conner's. ,1. M. Carson's, P. F. Evans's. 
 Wm. Thayer's, V. P. Salas's and .M. P. O'Connor's orations. 
 1857-7-"5: Dr. (Oilman's sermon. IS;')?: Dr. .1. W. NPdcsV 
 sernu)n. 1874. 
 
 lieception to Gen. Ilamjiton. 1S77. lu'cepiion to W . II. 
 F. IjCc. and Courtenay Flag presentation, 1878. 
 
lie'-estiihlislinieiit Citadel xVcadeiny — Tlioiiipson's oration, 
 1S7!>: Thomas's oration, I880 : Dr. \'('(l(U'r"s poem, " Tvry; " 
 ^'atcs Siiowdc'irs poem, " The ("arolina Honrbon."" 
 
 War liistoi-y of the Charleston Liyht Dragoons; History 
 of the Confederate Home School and Tortei Academy and 
 Reports, 1,S!I(), of IFigh School; Addresses of the Rev. 
 C. C. rinckney, Julian Mifchel and A. Sachtlehen, at the 
 opening of the new school house, 1881; Archer's History 
 of the Public Schools; Ifayne's " Broken Battalions."" 
 
 Deh'uce ot Charleston Harbor; Proceedings Sur\i\()rs" 
 Association. 
 
 Di'dieation of Memorial Hall, Knston Home; Dr. Di'ack- 
 ctfs Prayrr; Mr. Bryan's Oration and Mr. Sass's Ode. 
 
 City Reports, 1889, 
 
 Proceeding of Centennial of Incorporation, August, 1X8:}. 
 
 Accounts of Cyclone, 1885; Eartlnpiake. lS8r>, 
 
 Circulai's of Easter Fair, 1875; Circuhirs about Puilding 
 AiMuory. 
 
 Centennial Jjcgioii papers; Mrs. X'irginia Fi-ench's poems, 
 "Liberty Bells''^ and ^^ Palmetto and Pine;" Polls of Old 
 Guard, Clinch Eitles, Boston Light Infantry and W. L. L, 
 28th June, 187(i. 
 
 Accounts W. L. L Festivals, 1878-88. 
 
 ('Opies of Conijtany's orders for (ien. Hampton's recep- 
 tion, 1S77; great Hampton parade. 1S77: .\nniiity Cer- 
 tificates. 
 
 ('owpens' Monument Recoi-d, 1884; Invitations to Cele- 
 bration; Concurrent Resolutions South Carolina Legisla- 
 ture ; C^orrespondence with Grand Lodge of South Caro- 
 lina, A. T. Smythe, G. M.; Cincinnati Society, etc. 
 
 Programme of Celebration ; Photograph of Morgan 
 Statue, presented by the United States Congress, cost 
 $20,000; Copy of the News ami Courier, May 12, 1882, with 
 Gen. HamptoiTs oration at Spartanburg. 
 
 Local ma})s ; Lord I'roprietor's Map of Carolina, l(i72 ; 
 (iueen Anne Map, 1711 ; Sir Henry Clinton Military Map, 
 1780; DeSaussure's Siege of Charleston, 1880; Clinton's 
 and Arbuthnot's Proclamations ; P)eauregard Military Map. 
 18(Jl-65 ; Map of Harbor; Abbot's Report on Jetties. 
 
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 (Constitution and By-Laws of ^V. L. 1. X'ctemns of Con- 
 fedt'ratc war. 
 
 ('Onstitution and By-Laws of W. L. I. (Miaritahlo Asso- 
 ciation, 186(>. 
 
 Description of Easter fair W . L. L, April, 1S75, 
 
 Copy of the Nnos and Courier, Augost 15, T8H:}, with 
 Mnckenfuss's account of Companies A and !> in the \^ir- 
 ginia and North Carolina Campaign. 
 
 A poetic tribute to the Confederate dead hy Col. I'heo. 
 O'Hara. 
 
 Literest-bearing (Confederate N'otes. 
 
 'Fhe \Y. L. L and Mount Vernon, 1884, $1,000 contributed 
 for South (Carolina room. 
 
 W. L. I. ROLLS. 
 
 Rolls ot the three companies of the war, complete. 
 
 Roll Fourth July, 18(!0, Capt. Simonton, 144 men. 
 
 Pay-rolls Companies A and B, 25th S. C. V., (ith Fel)rn- 
 ary, 1882, on Confederate jiaper. 
 
 Roll 23d February, 1874, (-apt. (^ourtenay, !)5 men. 
 
 Roll April 19, 1877, (iipt. Courtenay, 109 men, TLim})ton 
 [larade. 
 
 Rolls 1881-83, Capt. Marshall, witli list of relics in 
 Armory. 
 
 SPECIAL ROLLS ON VELLUM. 
 
 Loll W. L. I. Veterans, 1891. 
 
 Roll Company A, nam[)ton Legion Fntantry, Capt. .lames 
 Conner, elaborately ornamented by hand hy dauuiiters ot 
 Ml'. C. L. I*o})peidieim, a member. 
 
 Roll trustees charity fund and list ot assistants. 
 
 Roll 17th June. 1875, ('iipt. T. V. Simons, at L>unker 
 1 nil, 71 men. 
 
 lioll 4th -Inly, LS7(i, (^apl. R. C. (Jilchrist. nt JMiiladelphia, 
 (!0 men. 
 
 Roll Ilth May. ISSI, ('apt. (L j). L.ryan, at (\)wpcns. 
 5(1 men. 
 
 Roll 19th ()ctol)er, 1882, (^apt. A. W. Marshall, at V..rk- 
 town, 27 men. 
 
 Roll Idth and 2:;rd .hiiie, L^S:!, New York, Xew Haven, 
 llarirord. Capt. A. \V. Marshall. 40 uwu. 
 
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 Uoll I'Otli JiiiK, 1883, detiicliiiiciil lil men, Cainden, S. C, 
 Ijient. .1. LaiJil) .lohiistoii. 
 
 i;()ll .notli Ai-ril, 1880, M:i). (4ilclii-ist, Wiishiiigtoii Ccii- 
 tt'iiiiial, New ^'oi'k, -Jt! men. 
 
 U(.ll 2!itli May, 1S90, Majc^r ( iileliiist, Lte "Monnmcnt, 
 liiclimond, 45 men. 
 
 C()[)y of" (Jen. Lee's farewell ordei-, Appomattox, April 
 10, 181;;"). 
 
 Files of cit}' papers, 2o<l Kehruary, 181>1. 
 
 THE BENEDICTION 
 
 Was pronouncccl by the Rev. ('. K. Chieliester. after wliieli 
 I he lar^c u'atlifi'inu- melted away. Tlic Washington Ligiit 
 Iidaiitry JJattalion aceornpanied tlie eadets to tlie Citadel 
 Aeademy before being dismissed, t]je line of mareh being 
 through Broad and King Streets. 
 
 .lust thirty years ago the eeho of the guns of the first 
 n-real battle ior Southern liberty was dying out along the 
 hills of old Virginia, the rays ot the settijig sun fell upon 
 the proudly waving standai'ds of the South, and the army 
 of the Confederacy, flushed with victory, was just returning 
 from [)ursuing the shattered and Hying cohorts of the North. 
 Among the foremost commands, which iiad on that great 
 day given victory to the Confederate cause, was the AVash- 
 ington Light Infantry Volunteers, of Charleston. But ani 
 mated, as they were, with the splendid success of the day, 
 and fdlcd with high and renewed hopes for the future of 
 theii- country, there was yet a sadness in their hearts, for 
 on that day, on that desperate iield, the Washington Light 
 Infantrv had jioured out its first blood in defence of its be- 
 loved Southland. It was, therefore, peculiarly fitting that 
 the anniversary of the first battle of Manassas, the granite 
 memorial to those brave men who. thus laid down theii' 
 lives, should have been unveiU'd in the presence of the 
 assembled city. 
 
 The committee in charge of the ceremonies, had done 
 their work well, and by noou, every preparation Jiad been 
 ma<lo for the unveiling of the beautiful shaft in Washing- 
 
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 toil S(|uarc'. The stand had been erected just east of the 
 shaft, which stood wrapped in tlie interwoven folds of the 
 Stars and Stripes, the emblem of a once more united land, 
 and the beloved old Talmetto i\i[g, which recalled vividly 
 the days of the past, wiien men N\eiit out to do battle for 
 the State. 
 
 The hour appointed for the unveiliiii!; was six o'clock, and 
 long before the time arrived, the stand was crowded with 
 ladies, and the broad lawn of green, in the midst of which 
 the graceiulshaft is set, was tilled with a throng of people, 
 all eager to witness the ceremonies, and to pay their slight 
 tribute to the memory of the unforgotten dead. Although 
 the sun at this hour shone down with genuine summer 
 fervor, on the unprotected heads of the multitude, the crowd 
 continued to swell, until, long, before the military arrived 
 on the grounds, tlie square was filled, and the people over- 
 flowed into the adjoining streets, 
 
 THE MILITARY 
 
 Assembled at five o'clock at the "Washington Light Infantry 
 Armory, in King street. The W. L. I. Battalion, and the 
 Clinch Ivifles, of Augusta, formed one body of troojjs, 
 under the command of Capt. A. W. Marshall, and headed 
 the line of march. The company, 60 strong, was com- 
 manded by Capt. Julius E. Cogswell, while the Clinch Ilifles, 
 with 26 splendid looking soldiers, were under the command 
 of (^apt. W. W. Fry. The Sumter Guards, 47 men, Capt. 
 T. T. Hyde; the German Artillery, 60 men, Capt. V. W. 
 Wagcner; and the Lafayette Artillery, 41 men, Capt. 
 l)u])Os, acted as an escort, and at about half-})ast five, to 
 the sound of music and drum, the line of niai-rh was taken 
 down King street to Broad, thence into meeting, to the west 
 entrance to the square. These gates were kept closed, until 
 the distant sound of martial music gave warning of the 
 approach of the soldiery. They were then thrown open, 
 and in a few minutes the line, under the command of Major 
 li. C. Gilchrist, who was mounted on a splendid coal black 
 charger, wheeled into the square. 
 
 The Washington Light Infantry, of course, headed the 
 
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 march, followed closely by the Clinch Rifles, resplendent in 
 their niiigniiiccnt uniforms, of green and gold, and show}^ 
 helmets. Then came the Sumter Guards, their white bear- 
 skin shakos shining in the afternoon sun, and their uiiifornis 
 of Confederate grey recalling other scenes and times when 
 it was no holiday atiair to be a soldier in the service of South 
 Carolina. The Guards w^ere followed closely by the German 
 Artillery, and the Lafayette Artillery. With the former 
 company, was the Pioneer corps, a handful of gray-liaired 
 men, some of whom had seen service in more than one war 
 on both sides of the Atlantic, and the fire of whose patriot- 
 ism age could not quench. 
 
 The troops were brought to "attention," directly in front 
 of the monument to the west, an enclosed area being re- 
 served for them, and while in that position the W, L. I. 
 Veteran Association and the Survivors' Association marched 
 by and took seats in front of the stand under the shadow 
 of the monument. 
 
 THE VETERANS. 
 
 The following members of the Veteran Association of 
 the Washington Light Infantry were present: 
 
 (^ol. Charles H. Simonton, President. 
 J. L, TIoNOUR, First Vice-President. 
 I). B. GiLLiLAND, Secretary and Treasurer. 
 The Eev. E. C. Edgerton, Chaplain. 
 
 E. W. LOYD, J. L. ShEP1'A1!1». 
 
 W. B. Coavperthwait, ' W. li. Greer, 
 
 H. L Greer, Gerhard Kiecke, 
 
 T. G. Simons, M. D., P. P. Locke, 
 
 Wm. M, Muckenfuss, D. C. Marsh, 
 
 W. L. Simons, H. B, Olney, 
 
 F. W. Renneker, R. Muller, 
 T. P. Lowndes, John Haas, 
 
 R. R. Shaffer, E. F. Burnham, 
 
 W. IL Steinmeyer. H. R. ]5odow, 
 
 J. D. StOCKER, J. S. P)UNCH, 
 
 p. G. ITasell, F. TT. Honour, 
 
 F. W. Miller, G. McC. Honour, 
 
 C. B. Johnson, F. E. Taylor, 
 
 A. J. Barton, Wullp.rick Jones, 
 
 C. Her Ortmann, C. L. Ortmann, 
 
 F. J. Ortmann, W. F. Ortmann. 
 
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 MAIDENS FAIR TO SEE. 
 
 Immediately betore the arrival of the troops, the follow- 
 ing young ladies, representing the commanders of the com- 
 pany, whose names j)recede theirs, took seats on the stand, 
 to be ready to pull the cords when the signal should be 
 given. The last three named represented the three com- 
 panies sent out by the Washington Light Infantry durin(>- 
 the war : *^ 
 
 1807. Capt. Wm. Lowndes — Miss Margaret W. Lowndes, 
 great granddaughter. 
 
 1817. Capt. S. Lewis Simons — Miss Kate W. Simons, 
 granddaughter. 
 
 182G. '"Capt. R. B. Gilchrist— Miss J. Augusta Gilchrist, 
 granddaughter. 
 
 1834. Capt. Henry Ravenel — Miss Bessie P. Ravenel, 
 granddaughter. 
 
 1889. Capt. B. M. Lee— Miss Susan R. Lee, grand- 
 daughter. 
 
 1840. Capt. Wm. Jervey — Miss Amaryllis Jervey, grand- 
 daughter. 
 
 1843. Capt. W. i). Porter— Miss Georgie L. r\>rter, 
 daughter. 
 
 1849. Capt. Joseph Walker— Miss Annie H. Smith, 
 granddaughter. 
 
 1857. Capt. C. 11. Simonton— Miss Caroline S. Alston, 
 granddaughter. 
 
 1861, Capt. Jas. Conner — Miss Mary F. Conner, 
 daughter. 
 
 1802. Capt. T. M. Logan— Miss Lena Logan, of llich- 
 mond, Va,, daughter. 
 
 1864. Capt. R. S. Ilanahan — Miss Annie G. Hanahan, 
 daughter. 
 
 1872. Capt. W. A. Courtenay— Miss Julia Courtenay, 
 daughter. 
 
 1874. Capt. T, Y. Simons— Miss Helen J. Simons, 
 granddaughter. 
 
 1876. 'Capt. R. C. Gilchrist— Miss Annie G. Gilchrist, 
 daughter. 
 
 1879. (^apt. G. B. Bryan— Miss Rebecca D. P>ryan, 
 daughter. 
 
 1882. (^apt. A. W. Marshall— Miss Annie W. Marshall, 
 daughter. 
 
 1888. Capt. W. Lucas Simons — Miss (\arrie Simons, 
 niece. 
 
 1889. (^apt. J. T. Flint- Miss Bessie Flint, daughter. 
 
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 (Company A, 25tli S. C. V.— Mis.^ (^arrie O. Oliicy, Miss 
 Daisy Shepjtard. 
 
 Oonijtaiiy A, Ilaiiipton Leg-ioii Iiilaiitry — Miss Mary I*. 
 l*oi)})OiiliciiM, Miss Sallie Inglcsby. 
 
 Coini)any B, 25th S. C. V.— Miss Kdith il Greer, Miss 
 Belle Grice. 
 
 It was a matter of Tiiuch regret, that (leii. T. M. Logan, 
 of Richmond, could not be present. Mrs. Logan occupied 
 a seat on the stand as a guest of the c()m[iany, while Nliss 
 Logan was one of the young ladies wlio unveiled the shaft. 
 
 ON THE STAND. 
 
 Fn addition to these young ladies, there were on the stand : 
 'J'lie lion. fJames Simons, Ex-Mayt)r Gourtenay, the Hon. 
 (^harles Inglesb}', Gorporation Gounsel ; the Rev. G. G. 
 IMnckney, 1). B., President of the South Garoliiia Histori- 
 cal Society and of the South (^arolina (-incinnati; Brig. 
 Gen. T. a". Huguenin and Staff; Gol. A. G. Magrath aiid 
 Staff; Mayor Bryan and tlie Gity Gouncil, and many othei' 
 persons of distinction. 
 
 THE CEREMONIES. 
 
 Promptly at six o'clock, Major Gilchrist, standing on the 
 [)edestal, l)eside Judge Simonton, the orator of the occasion, 
 gave the preconcerted signal, and the band struck up " Dixie." 
 The guns of the Lafayette Artiller}-, in C-halmers street, 
 mingled their warlike roar with the merry chiming of St. 
 Michael's bells, and twenty-live young ladies pulled the cords; 
 the folds of the great flags fell aside ; the halyards on the 
 lofty flagstaff were hauled taut, and in a moment the shaft 
 stood unveiled, while far above it floated the mingled colors 
 of the State and the Union. A tremendous outburst of 
 applause greeted the unveiling, which lasted for several 
 miimtes. 
 
 When (|uiet was restored, Major Gilchrist introduced the 
 liev. E. G. Edgerton, of Aiken, who offered a prayer. 
 
 INTRODUCING THE ORATOR. 
 
 MaJ. (iilclirist then introduced the Tlon. V. IL Simonton, 
 the orator of the occasion, as follows : 
 
 On this day, thirty years ago, the Washington Light In- 
 fantry received its baptism of blood when IL A. Middleton, 
 (iabriel Jervey, G. L. Phelps, and TIenry iJlankensee, in 
 (Jompany A, Hampton I^egion, laid down their lives on the 
 battlelield of Manassas. This shaft has been erected to 
 [•reserve in imperishable granite and bronze their names 
 
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 und tlic names of the others of our one huii(h'eil and four- 
 teen (lead wlio, thereafter, on foi'ty-one battletiehls of the 
 Oonfederaey, in liospitals, oi- on tlie weary wayside, died in 
 obedience to a sentiment of honor and the call of duty. 
 It has, therefore, seemed to be most litting that tliese cere- 
 monies should take place on this very day, the anniversary 
 of the first battle of Manassas. "We could ahnost liear this 
 morning the salvos of artillery and resounding huzzas that 
 welcomed at Lexington, Va., the unveiled statue of the hero 
 of Bull Kun and Manassas, the idol of the South, Stonewall 
 Jackson. So that, in spite of heat and consequent discom- 
 fort, we have invited you, ladies and gentlemen and fellow 
 soldiers, to assemble witli us to-day to do honor to their 
 memor}'. Tlie heroic deeds of the three coinpanies of the 
 W. L. L, that by no means distinguish them above the other 
 brave commands who, as well did their devoir in 1861-65, 
 will be recounted In- him, wlio commanded the 26th liegi- 
 ment, S. G. \\, in which the Washington Light Infantry 
 men served in Companies A. and B. At the unveiling of 
 the other monument, which we })laced in Magnolia Ceme- 
 tery in 1870, (the first erected in the United States, either at 
 the North or Soutli),and which has succumbed to the toucli 
 of time, the gallant hero and commander of the Hampton 
 Legion did justice t(^ the W. L. L, as he knew it : and now the 
 other commander, under whom the two companies of the 
 war, 2r)th Regiment, served on other fields, will complete the 
 record, and, so far as time will allow will show why the 
 company, which sprang into existence 1807 under William 
 Lowndes, claims to be of that 
 
 " Immortal few who were not born to die.'' 
 
 1 introduce the lion. C. H. Simonton, late (^olonel of the 
 2r)th Regiment, S. C. V. 
 
 Judge Simonton's address was not only most ehxjuent, 
 but was an invalual)le contribution to tlie history of the 
 Washington Light Infantry, and, therefore, to the history 
 of the service of South Caroliuii in the field during the war. 
 He said : 
 
 JUDGE simonton's ORATION. 
 
 Gentlemen of the Washington Light Infantry ; 
 
 Comrades of the Veterans : 
 
 On this beautiful summer's afternoon we unveil a perma- 
 
 nant memorial of oui- dead. The monument erected in 
 
 Magnolia with so iuueh effort iiearly a »[uarter of a century 
 
 ago, was amouLi- the lirst of its character in the South, it 
 
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 liu.s proved to bo of perishable materiul. Providentially we 
 are able to substitute for it, this shaft of imperishable i^-raii- 
 ite, the product of our native soil. May it remain through 
 many generations, the faithful witness of our aflection foi' 
 our comrades. 
 
 At the dedication of the first nionunu'nt, we were honored 
 1)y the presence of Wade Hampton, and heard from his lips 
 an eloquent ex])()sition of the |)rinei})les and the motives for 
 which the Confederate Soldier put his life in peril. Tie dis- 
 cussed the causes which led up to the war and paid the 
 tribute of a soldier and a statesman to its dead heroes. Ours 
 is a uiore humble, but not less interesting task, A few sur- 
 vivors of a stormy period, we gather for the last time arouud 
 this commemorative shaft iu tender memory of the friends 
 and companions of our boyhood and early manhood. We 
 pay theT tribute of affection. Again we feel the sense ol' 
 personal bereavement. Nearly every name on that monu- 
 ment recalls some one of our personal friends. Many oi 
 them had been in the old company before the war, had met 
 with us at di'ills, parades and company meetings, and had sat 
 witli us around the same festal board. We can recall their 
 familiar features, their well known names, the tones of their 
 voices, their personal characteristics. They shared with us 
 the jest and frolic, the toil, of our holiday excursions. How 
 this occasion brings back to us the memory of our long lost 
 youth, its aspirations and its hopes, its careless enjoyment 
 of the present, its confident encounter with the threatening 
 future. In this halcyon period, these men heard the call of 
 the State, to arms. Reared in a community wdiich recog- 
 nized the superior authority of the State, without any hesi- 
 tation they obeyed the call. To them it was a simple ques- 
 tion of duty. They gave the best proof of their sense of 
 its ol)ligation, their lives. 
 
 I propose on this occasion, appealing as it does so much 
 to our affections and so full of touching associations to con- 
 tine myself to our family history, to tell in a few brief words 
 the story of our three companies in the war between the 
 States. We arrogate for them no superior [)lace. We lay 
 claim to no unusual merit, to no marked excellence, no 
 
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 special service. That grand army ot" wiiich they toriiied a 
 part was an army of unnamed heroes, was filled with able 
 men content to march in the ranks, to encounter without 
 reward or hope of reward, the toils and perils, and suffering 
 of a private soldier, but one motive guiding them, duty to 
 their State, one hope sustaining them, that their cause would 
 succeed. The history of each regiment composing that 
 army was the same. From every rank in life in our 
 Southland they went, filled witli enthusiastic patriotism, 
 caring nothing for the questions disturbing politicians and 
 statesmen, knowing only that their country was invaded, 
 ready to meet any odds. At first they were borne along in 
 the flush of" victory ; at the end they were in calm despair. 
 At no time, under no circumstances, were they faltering or 
 false to the cause for which they had pledged their all. 
 
 The Washington Light Infantry, a volunteer militia 
 company, owed its origin to the burst of patriotic indigna- 
 tion which swept the country upon the encounter of the 
 Chesapeake with the Leopard. The Leopard skin so long 
 a part of our uniform, commemorates this. William 
 Lowndes was then at the opening of that brilliant career, 
 wliich would have borne him the Presidency but for his 
 untimely death, lie organized the company and his char- 
 acter and genius gave it its first impulse. Through many 
 years it enjoyed and profited by the influence of successive, 
 excellent Captains, the bold and energetic Cross, the accom- 
 plished Wm. Crafts, S. Lewis Simons, a valued and public 
 spirited citizen, W. H. Miller, the accomplished merchant, 
 the learned and popular Gilchrist, Henry Ravenel, fitting 
 representative of a pure Huguenot ancestry, the calm and 
 incorruptible B. M. Lee, Wm. Jervey, the model South 
 ern gentleman, the accomplished W. 1). Porter, profound 
 lawyer, gifted orator, distinguished statesman, Joseph Wal- 
 ker, energetic, active and accurate, L. M. Hatch, with his 
 laborious study of and genius for war. Its social position 
 and influence w-ere remarkable. With ranks always full, 
 and with an unquenchable esprit du corps, it maintained 
 during all the years of its existence the well earned and 
 well deservetl reputation of a Crack Military Company. 
 
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 Originally formed for service and kept always well ecjiiijtped, 
 it was used during two National Wars and on many occa- 
 sions of (^i\'il Disturbance. The militia system of the State 
 was in excellent condition, and details were constantly made 
 from Brigade and Division Headquarters. In tiicse details, 
 the AVashington Liglit Infantry frequently appeared. When, 
 therefore, the troublous time of ]H(iO began, and the State 
 was in the ferment presaging war the logical result of cir- 
 cumstances brought the Washington Light Infantry to the 
 front, and they were the very tirst called upon for duty. 
 Early in I^ovember, 1860, they were sent to guard the 
 (Charleston Arsenal. They were then detailed to do patrol 
 duty between Sumter and Moultrie ; they were in the detach- 
 ment which took possession of and manned Castle ]*inckney. 
 The Gun upon the Star of the West called them to Morris 
 Island, and as a company of the Regiment of Ritles, they 
 did their part during the whole of the operations around 
 Sumter. 
 
 What a holiday campaign that was, with what appliances 
 and comfort did we begin the tirst da3'S of the war. A rude 
 awakening was before us. IIow few dreamed when the 
 Hrst gun was lieard 0Y)ening the siege of Sumter that its 
 sound would re-echo through this broad land, summoning 
 a nation to arms, inaugurating a struggle in which the tra- 
 ditions and habits, the institutions and wealtli, the result of 
 a century and a half would be swept away forever. The 
 first realizing sense of the work before us came when we 
 bade God speed to the Washington Light Infantry Volun- 
 teers on their start for Virginia. This our first contribution 
 to the C-onfederate Army, left Charleston for Colund)ia in 
 May, ISdl, and was the first com])any reporting for duty in 
 the afterward renowned Hampton Legion, and became and is 
 known as Comjtany A, in that veteran command. To no 
 better man could have been entrusted the good name of the 
 Washino;ton Liijht Infantrv than James Conner, who went 
 out as their (^aptain. With large personal influence, 
 
 unquestioiuxble courage, great self control, firm, just, con- 
 siderate, he was an ideal commander. Then he began the 
 career which by force of unusual merit carried him through 
 
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 all interior oradcs to the post of IJrigadier. Jn whicli lie 
 won wliilo liviiii:-, llu' respect, confidence and affection of 
 State, and wliich i)nt a whole community in mourning for 
 his dcatli. 
 
 The story of the Washington Light Infantry Company 
 A, of the Legion would be the history of the Army of 
 Northern N'irginia. It was among the very first of tlie 
 organizations wliicli formed that Army. It followed the 
 fortunes of Lee and Jackson, of Johnson and Longstreet 
 from the first Manassas and its remnant surrendered at 
 Al)pomattox. One hundred and fifty-two officers and men 
 served with it. It gave throe Brigadiers to the Confederate 
 Army. In twenty-five pitched battles, on very many a 
 weary march, footsore, barefoot, starving in the winter 
 camp, staining the snow with bloody footsteps, in the swel- 
 tering trenches they exhibited the highest and best qualities 
 of the soldier, and acquired for themselves a reputation of 
 which we may well be proud. Our roll of Captains has no 
 names more honored than Conner, Logan or Thomas. 
 
 To-day has been selected for our present purpose because 
 it is the anniversary of the first battle in which blood was 
 shed in the AVashington Light Infantry — Henry Blankensee, 
 G. L. Phelps, Gabriel Jervey and Henry A. Middleton, 
 Jr. The war found Mr. Middleton a successful planter in 
 Georgetown. He had raised a company of Cavalry for 
 service. Impatient to be at the front, he resigned his posi- 
 tion and volunteered as a private in Company A of the 
 Legion. At the first Manassas he fell mortally wounded. In 
 his own person he gave one more instance of devotion to 
 South Carolina, which has characterized his family — which 
 has interwoven their name with that of the State from the 
 earliest period of colonial history. There is one name on 
 this monument, a i)rivate in Company A, of the Legion, a 
 stranger to many of us, which, even in this hurried sketch, 
 deserves mention. Oscar Lieber, the eldest son of Dr. 
 Francis Lieber, was reared from early boyhood within the 
 walls of the South Caroliiui College. Associated with sev- 
 eral generations of titudents he imbii)ed all the tastes and 
 feelings, the principles and prejudices of these friends of 
 
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 Jiis boyhood. ( inuhuiting at that (k)llege, his marked abil- 
 ity and acquireiiK'iits created frequent demands for his 
 services in this and in the Gulf States, and he became 
 the State Geologist. When the war broke out he volun- 
 teered in Company A. His distinguished father, forgetful 
 of his own stormy youth and that he was an exile from the 
 fatherland, l)ccause of his political opinions, denounced his 
 son as a traitor and reljcl, disowned and repudiated all rela- 
 tionship with him. lie snftercd liis son to die of his wounds, 
 affectionately and tenderly nursed, it is true, but by strangers 
 in blood to him, and shut his ears to any report of his son's 
 last hours. We, the children of the soil, may have made 
 sacrifices. We were supported by the sympathy of those 
 nearest and dearest to us. Lieber, when he followed his 
 convictions, made sacrifice and shipwreck of all the ties 
 which men hold most dear. 
 
 One otlier name cannot be passed over in silence. Theo- 
 dore Klinck entered a boy into the ranks of the old ( -ompany 
 and had the affection of all of us. In the enthusiasm of 
 his nature he preferred the prospect of immediate active 
 service in Virginia, and no better man followed the lead of 
 Conner. Tlis courage and ability attracted the notice of his 
 Commanders and he gave promise of an honorable career. 
 He fell on the field of battle a young martyr to the lost 
 cause. His venerable father had not recovered from this 
 sacrifice, when he was called again to mourn for his ffrst 
 born son, Jolm Klinck, Jr., whose blood also stained the soil 
 of Virginia. 
 
 After the departure of the Volunteers for Virginia the 
 Company remained for some months, a part of the Rifle 
 llegiment and did duty on the Sea Islands in front of, and 
 below Charleston. In February, 1862, they voluntered into 
 Confederate Service. So full were its ranks and so great 
 was the popularity of the Company, so earnest and univer- 
 sal the enthusiasm pervading the whole community that two 
 full (companies, one hundred and twenty-ffve men each, went 
 out as (^ompanies A, and B, Washington Light Infantry. 
 They were a splendid body of men, young, intelligent, well 
 drilled, many of them fft for positions of command. Ordered 
 
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 at oMcc into service in tlic Kutaw Battalion, afterward 25tli 
 Regiment, they were on C^oles' Island, Battery Island and 
 on James Island. Tlie duties performed by this liegiment 
 were perhaps the most trying to which u soldier, certainly 
 a volunteer soldier, can be exposed. There was little of the 
 glow and excitement of constant and actual conflict, the 
 din of arms and the fierce delight of battle. Day and night 
 they were at the outpost, at the entrance of the most direct 
 road to Charleston, the eyes and ears of the Commandino- 
 General, watching each movement of a powerful, active and 
 brave adversary. For months at a time they were the only 
 Infantry regiment on this part of the defence of the city, 
 and upon them was the most grave responsibility. The 
 l»icket lines were in sight of and within easy reach of the 
 enemy. Being on the Stono and the estuaries connected with 
 it, they were exposed to constant attacks from gunboats and 
 to the formidable armament of the ships of war. 
 
 They lived in a deadly climate, against whose poisonous 
 atmosphere they could take no precaution. Standing on 
 the defensive, they could only endure and be patient, repress- 
 ing the eager desire, whetted by news from other quarters, 
 to go into active service where, at the least, they could 
 attack as well as defend. During this weary period tliere 
 were episodes which relieved the monotony. With their 
 regiment these two companies took part in movements of 
 troops within the military district and in North Carolina. 
 On their return, they were in the engagement })reliminary 
 to the battle of Secessionville, and took their full part in 
 that com[»lete victory. Here tliey met their first losses in bat- 
 tle. Among them kichard A\"alsh (ircei-, gentle, amiable, af- 
 fectionate, than whom no better nnm wore the grey. Fleet- 
 wood Lanneau, dr., cut down in the glory and bloom of 
 [)roniisiug manhood, and that Christian soldier, Taverner, 
 the gallant Englishman who fell fighting in defence of the 
 homes of his friends. Then came W^agner. Against this 
 lonely outpost of Sumter the whole power of a magnificently 
 e([uii»})ed Federal army, and of the navy t)f iron dads, had 
 exhausted itself. Kxjiosed in IVoiit to constant artiller\- fire 
 and the rifles of sharp shooters, and on the Hank to the 
 
hcuviust Diiviil l>()iiibur(liiiciit tliuii known in eh ilizcd war, 
 its defence tested the courage of the bravest, ('onipanies A 
 and 1>, with the rest of their regiment, did thcii' tonr of 
 thity in this famous fortress, and the l)]ood of their doad 
 reddened its sands. Here Lieut. K. A. Blum lost his life. A 
 member of a large and inftuential German family of (Miarles- 
 ton, he exliibited in a high degree the best (jualities of the race 
 from which he came. To its traditional courage he added 
 honesty of soul, patience, firmness and unfaltering fidelity. 
 At the last service of the regiment in Wagner, the ap- 
 proaches against the fort had been completed, and the last 
 trencli had reached its walls. Tt had served its full purpose 
 and had become untenable. Any further occupation would 
 ba\e involved unnecessary loss of life. At tlie dead of 
 night, in a silence inrerrupted only by an occasional shell or 
 the buzz of a bullet, the comjiaiiies of the 25th regiment 
 and the rest of the garrison quietly left the fort and pro- 
 ceeded to the landing. The order had been given that the 
 dead must be left. But Lieut. Berger was determined that 
 Blum shouhl sleep with his fathers. Raising his friend in 
 his arms he took his place with Company B, the right com- 
 pany of the regiment, and the dead Lieutenant led the evac- 
 uation. It was accomplished without loss. The last men 
 to leave the Island were J. L. Honour and Lieut. J. A. 
 Ross, of Company A. These companies formed a part of 
 the garrison of Sumter on several occasions, and have eai-ned 
 the right to put its name on this memorial stone. Those of 
 us who are survivors can even now recall the shudder with 
 which we learned that eleven young men of our companies, 
 crushed under its crumbling walls, found a sudden and 
 awful death in Fort Sumter. Well may any troops who 
 served in these two forts, Sumter and Wagener, be proud of 
 the record. So long as American history shall be read tlu' 
 unflinching courage, heroic enchirance, des})erate resistance 
 against overwhelming odds, fearless disregard of death in 
 tdmost every form wliich the garrisons of these forts exhib- 
 ited during the long months of almost hopeless struggle. 
 will attract the attention and command the admiration ot 
 our countrymen, whether they or their ancestors wore the 
 l)lue or the grey. 
 
The tide of tlic wav at last set for thqse two coinpanies 
 toward Virginia, and tlic ini]>atient hopes of them and tiie 
 other eonipanies in their regiment were ii'ratiiieih On the 
 first of May. l.SiU. ('oni})Osing a part of Ilagood's most 
 ellicient and excellent hrigade, they took up the line of 
 march, and u}ion reaching Petershurg at once went into 
 action. 
 
 In ra])id succession they were engaged at Swift's Creek, 
 Port Walthall Junction, Drury's BInft, City Point, Permuda 
 ilunch-eds and Gaines's IMills, and took part in and wit- 
 nessed the terrible repulse and slaughter of Grant's army 
 at Cold Harbor. Tn these engagements Ilagood's Brigade 
 proved the completeness of their preparations for active 
 duty on the battlefield. The 25th Regiment did its full 
 share in seconding the ability and increasing the re]>utation 
 of its war loving Brigadier, and in the 25th Peginient 
 Coni})aiiies A and B did not have an inferior place. They 
 were worthy comrades of Pressley, Glover, Sellers, (Jordon, 
 C^hiiui, Lesesne, and the brave ]Tammonds, JLarper, Mazyck, 
 Bartless, Izlar and the gallant Dibble. And in every 
 engagement they obtained the praise of theii- commanding 
 officers. At the beginning of their Virginia campaign 
 Bomar and Tatt, Lieutenants of (^ompany B, losr their 
 lives. Both young, promising and brave, they were excel- 
 lent specimens of Southern maidiood. Taft had in liim 
 the blood of New England, and all the cool daring and 
 sturdy pluck of Ins race. JJonuir rejjresented thi- best blood 
 of Upper Cai'olina, as chivalrous as Bayard and as modest 
 as a woman. Both fell eheering on their men. in the Hush 
 of victory and with the light of battle on their faces. From 
 Cold lIarl)or the brigade returned to Petersburg, and were 
 among the troops which met Grant's tirst advance against 
 that historic city, digging tlu; tii-st trenches in its defence. 
 Tln'iueforward for some months they remainecl under 
 (Jenei'al Jjce, and shared in the defence of Hichniond and 
 Petersburg. The world will nevei' know the eon4)lete 
 nieasurt' of the heroism of Lee's army. Sjiut u|i in the 
 trenches ai'ound Petersburg and Uichniond, ill \hi\ and 
 scantily clad, opposed by troops thoroughly e(]uii>ped and 
 
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 pro\i(k'(l with every necessity, \eter;ins ol' an hiiiidred Init- 
 tles, juid know iiig as well as tlieir c()minandin<»: General 
 tlial tliu siege could have but one end, every mail l)ringinii- 
 them tales of distress and suffering at home, to many ot 
 them of burning homesteads and houseless families, they 
 kept up a 8tu])born resislance watchfully and successfully 
 resisting every attack, at times themselves attacking and at 
 all times defving cold, hunger, danger, death and tiite itself. 
 in one of these sorties, that on the Weldon Railroad, 
 liagood's Brigade took a leading part under the eye and 
 following the example of its brave Commander. Its C^om- 
 panies were almost destroyed. There fell James A. Koss, 
 Lieutenant of Company A. His impatience to be with his 
 men, dragged him from a bed of sickness and sent him to 
 the battle field, lleporting just as the fight was ordered he 
 joined his C^ompany in the charge on the impregnable earth- 
 works and foremost fighting fell. A nobler spirit never 
 breathed. With no other motive than his own sense of 
 duty, he sacrificed the comforts of a luxurious home and all 
 the pleasures wealth could give, for the dangers and priva- 
 tions of the camp, lie sleeps in an unknown grave. His 
 memory is enshrined in the hearts of his comrades. On 
 this shaft is no name more honored and loved than his. 
 
 When Sherman's march to the Sea endangered Lee's 
 rear, liagood's Brigade was sent to tlie defence of Wilming- 
 ton and the 25th Uegiment was detailed as }»art of the Gar- 
 rison of Fort Fisher. When that Fortress was captured by 
 storm the whole Regiment on duty were killed or captured. 
 A very small remnant, among them a few men and otHcers 
 of Cami)anies A and B reported for duty witli tlie Brigade 
 and in a few weeks afterward at Town Creek near Wilming- 
 ton, these were captured after a days' figliting with all of 
 liagood's Brigade except Kion's Kegiment. Thenceforwai'd 
 they endured the sufi'erings of prison life at Elmira, Fort 
 Delaware and Point Lookout until the war ended. Tiiey 
 returned with broken fortunes to tlieir desolated homes. 
 Cast down, l)ut not forsaken, discomforted, but not dismayed. 
 So strong, however, was their (\)mpany spirit, that their 
 first act was to reorganize undei' their Company's name the 
 
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 Charitable Association. And in flic mi. 1st of their poverty 
 to set apart from their s].arse incomes a provision for the 
 families of their dead companions. Here their st.ny ends. 
 Dnrin,-- the entire period of tlieir service they kept uj. 
 their Company traditions and observed rcirularlv their 
 Anniversary, the 22nd of February; in Camp, on the 
 march, under the hail of shot an<l shell in Sumter. And in 
 February, l,S(i5, the small remnant on its way to a iYorthern 
 prison, gathered on the sands of Fort Fisher and drank to 
 " the day we celebrate " in the only beverage allowed to 
 prisoners of war. 
 
 There is a name on our roll, not however on this Monu- 
 ment which rises at once in our memories whenever we 
 recall the war history of C^ampanies A and B. No officer 
 was closer to the hearts of his men than James M. Carson, 
 Captain of C^ompany A. Commanding them from the day 
 they enlisted until they were captured, sensitively alive to 
 their interests, he shared their dangers and privations and 
 encouraged and strengthened them by his own example. 
 They loved liim with corresponding devotion and when not 
 many months ago he iinished his earthly course, they 
 mourned him as one does a father. 
 
 Such, gentlemen of the Washington Lio-ht Intantry, is an 
 imperfect account of the men who bore your name." ' This 
 Monument with its triple steps, forming the base and the 
 three sections constituting the Shaft, represents the three 
 Companies. The inscription in a few eloquent words tells 
 their story. '' (3fficers and men they were the verv iiower 
 of this Ancient City, her young hope and fair renown.- 
 '^ Beside the maimed, wounded and captured, one hundred 
 and fourteen died in battle, in hospital or on the weary 
 way-side. Tn obedience to a sentiment of honor and the 
 call of duty and in pledge of their sincerity they made the 
 last sacrifice, they laid down their lives." 
 
 They redeemed the pledge given bv tlie (^aptain of our 
 Company to the widow of William Washington when 
 she placed the flag of Futaw and (\)wpens in our keepino-. 
 
 Never cease to honor their memory. 
 
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 AN HISTORIC INCIDKNT. 
 
 A badge of w liite gros-graiii silk, printed in crimson and 
 l)hu', tlius coinbining tlu; colors of llio (Confederate flac;, 
 was worn by the young ladies unveiling the Monument and 
 by the veterans and cliief guests of the occasion, with the 
 luUowing inscription : 
 
 ■' No nation rose si> white uiid fair 
 None fell so jniro of orinie.'' 
 
 (W. L. I. Coat of Arms.) 
 
 W. L. T.— 18()0-(;5. 
 
 Tlieir now War iMonunicnt Unveilod in Wasliinnt()n S(|uarc 
 
 on the 
 
 :!Ot,li Anniversary of " First Manassas, 
 
 Wliero tiieir first l)]ood was shod, 
 
 21st July, 18(il. 
 
 " Forinrtn vov mvJaf firnns.'' 
 
" Finis Coronat Opii^." 
 
 THE COMPLETED MONUMENT. 
 
 THE FINAL CEREMONIES IN THE DEDICATION OF THE 
 
 BRONZE PANELS. THE "W. L. I." FAITHFUL TO 
 
 THEIR DEAD OF THE "WAR BETWEEN 
 
 THE STATES." 
 
 The one hundred and eighteenth (118) anniversary of the 
 victory on Sullivan's Island, 28th June, 1776, when Col. 
 Moultrie defeated the British fleet under Sir Peter Parker, 
 was observed in Charleston by a ceremonial, coninieniorative 
 of military achievements as glorious as those of another 
 century. As the men of 1776-83 fought for civil liberty 
 and the right of self-government, so their descendents in 
 1860-65 asserted their rights and laid down their lives for 
 like sentiments: the first, are eulogized as patriots; the 
 last, are identified with a " lost cause." 
 
 '■'■ Carolina Day " has an added lustre by the spirited cer- 
 emonies in Washington Square on 28th June, 1894, as will 
 appear in reading the final proceedings of thirteen years of 
 patriotic work. 
 
 As the golden sunshine was sinking in the west and the 
 bells of venerable St. Michael's were chiming with patriotic 
 airs, thousands were gathering in this central public square, 
 to witness the last act which completed a public memorial 
 of imperishable materials, leaving to the latest posterity 
 the proud records of three W. L, I. Companies, who wore 
 
 "the .IACKHT of (iREY." 
 
 The Wasbington Light Infantry with their colors, the 
 remnant of W. L. I. A'^eterans in citizens dress surrounding 
 the shaft, the mayor and aldermen, venerable citizens the 
 names of whose dead were on the Monument, ior all time, 
 
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 and the always faithful ladies of Charleston, with a con- 
 course of citizens equal to the capacity of the scjuarc, were 
 present to honor " the unreturmng brave." 
 
 At half-past .six o'clock, Major A.W. Marshall coiuiiianding 
 W. L. I., ascended the hase of tlie Monument, and intro- 
 (Uiced the Rev. G. II. Brackett, who iiad heen invited to 
 ofiiciate as cliaplain of the day. Dr. Brackett invoked the 
 Divine blessing in an appropriate jtrayer. 
 
 Major Marshall then pronounced the following elo^iuent 
 and spirited address : 
 
 Ladies of Charleston, Veterans of the Confederacy, 
 
 Fellow Soldiers and Citizens : 
 
 A few years ago it was my good fortune to be in Brussels, 
 the beautiful capital of Belgium, and a friend conducted me 
 to see the martyrs' monument, it is a beautiful structure 
 erected, as our monument is, in the heart of the city, 
 and the words pro ^w/ri^'a, standing out in Itold relief, })lain- 
 tively reminded the passers by that those men died for their 
 country. This monument is one of the martyr monuments 
 of the Confederate States and wisely has our City Council 
 acted in not only donating the site to the memory of (^on- 
 federate heroes, but we trust in beautifying and fostering it. 
 
 We are assembled, my friends, this afternoon to unveil 
 the bronze tablets which complete the second W. L. I. War 
 Monument. The Washington Light Infantry liad the honor 
 of erecting the tirst monument to Confederate dead tliat 
 was erected in the State, and possibly in the South. Many 
 of vou remember the graceful proportions of that monu- 
 ment which stood for years in Magnolia Cemetery, but the 
 stone proved very defective, and in a few more years it 
 would have crumbled aw^ay. Foreseeing such a catastrophe, 
 some of the leading spirits of the W. L. I., most conspic- 
 uous among whom was Ex-Capt. Wni. A. Courtena}', decided 
 that another and a more enduring nioiiuuiciit should record 
 the war deeds of the Washington Light Infantry. 
 
 The present monument, which we complete to-day, is 
 the result of their labors, and while the spirits of our fallen 
 heroes could worthily sing with Horace, ^^Exegimonumentum 
 
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 aere perren?)ius," we at least can boast that in tlieir memory 
 we liave erected a monument as endurinij; as brass, yea, of 
 brass and granite itself, trusting that for all time to come it 
 will preach and teach to succeeding generations that these 
 me!i did tlieii- whole duty to the Southern Confederacy; 
 that these men gave up their lives for the Lost Cause. 
 
 Let us then reverently unveil these tablets and allow 
 the enduring bronze to begin at once the solemn duty of 
 publishing to the world the valor and virtue of the Wash- 
 ington Liglit Lifiintr}^ 
 
 The closing of Maj. Marshall's remarks was the signal for 
 the unveiling of the tablets, which was done under the 
 supervision of Ex-Capt. Wm. A. Courtenay and Maj. Geo. 
 B. Edwards, who had been' most active in having the mon- 
 ument and tablets com})leted. 
 
 Major Marshall then presented the orator of the day, the 
 Rev. A. Toomer Porter, D. D., the Chaplain of the Corps. 
 
 THE ORATION. 
 
 Ladies and GenUemen ; 
 
 Members of the Washington Light Tnfantrg : 
 
 In gathering liere to commemorate the completion of this 
 Monument, erected by you to perpetuale the memory of 
 those gallant men whose names are inscribed on these bronze 
 tablets, now permanently placed, we are linking ourselves 
 with the custom of all the ages. Far away in antiquity and 
 down the years of history men of all nationalities have hon- 
 ored themselves by raising monuments as memorials of 
 gallant deeds and useful lives. They have shown them- 
 selves capable of appreciating the \'alor and the virtue of 
 those who h:i\e adorned the ainials of time by their noble 
 lives or their heroic deaths, evidencing that they were emu- 
 lating the characters of those whose memory they did not 
 wish to lose, and rearing as silent l)ut instructive teachers to 
 future generations these tokens of a people's gratitude and 
 admiration of lives well spent, inciting those who follow 
 utter to so live that if occasion should arise they may }>lay 
 their part in life's drama that they too shall deserve to be 
 kept in loving remembranee. 
 
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 You are to be coiic'i":itulated tliat you liav^e brought to 
 successful issue your hiudal)le eudeavors to do lionor to tlioae 
 who bore your name and carried your flag, not only in the 
 piping times of peace, but through the hurricane of war. 
 You have honored your old Chaplain by asking him to 
 make the address at this your last act in this direction. 
 You do not look for oratory or elo(iuence from him, but will 
 be content, I hope, with a brief review of the history of 
 your corps before and since the civil war. 
 
 There is a piece of 
 
 LEOPARD SKIN 
 
 worn on your caps, wliich your corps has kept as an object 
 lesson to succeeding generations. Eighty-seven years ago 
 the grandfathers of the present generation were startled in 
 the midst of thL-ir routine life by the report that the British 
 frigate Leopard had fired into the American slii}) Chesa- 
 peake oft the Capes of Virginia. Just as the country was 
 in a blaze when it was known that Major Anderson in 
 December, 1860, had evacuated Fort Moultrie and had occu- 
 pied Fort Sumter, so our ancestors felt at this unwelcome 
 news. Some of us have not forgotten our emotions in 1860, 
 and we can sympathize with the men of 1807, and under- 
 stand how they quickly flew to arms. Those men were the 
 sons of those who with the thirteen colonies had achieved 
 their independence ; it was oidy twenty-four years since that 
 independence had been recognized by Great Britain ; and 
 here in the early manhood of the next generation the roar of 
 British cannon was again sounding on these shores. 
 
 That shot from the Lcopai'd was the signal gun of the 
 second war of independence. Volunteer companies were 
 formed everywhere and tendered to the government; many 
 were organized in Charleston, among them the Washington 
 Light Infantry sprang into life, and it was a vigorous life, 
 for there has never been a day and never an occasion from 
 that hour to this that the W. L. I, was not there to discharge 
 its duty. Through all the changes of these eventful years 
 it has never been disbanded, and of all those companies 
 then organized it alone survives. 
 
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 Will. Lowndes, Foremost iuiiong the first ot'nicii, the author 
 of the sentiment, '' The Presidency is an office to be neither 
 souo-ht or declined," jurist, orator, statesman, presided at the 
 tirst meeting and was elected Captain. An enthusiastic mem- 
 l)er of that tirst meeting exclaimed: "Remember the Leop- 
 ard ! " and the corps has remembered it to this day— and that 
 is the way it got to be your badge. It tells that your fathers 
 were true to their country in the hour of her need, and that 
 you, their sons, are animated by the same principles to day. 
 N"ever give up the leopard skin. There is magic in a 
 symbol. 
 
 THE EUTAW FLAG. 
 
 Sixty-seven years ago the widow of Col. Wm, Washing- 
 ton summoned this corps to her residence on Soutli Bay, 
 where the family of our late esteemed townsman, Robert 
 Mure, now reside, and placed in their custody the battle 
 Hag of her late husband, 
 
 " Which at Eutaw shown so bright, 
 
 And as a dazzling meteor swept 
 
 Thro' the Cowpens' deadly fight." 
 
 And this second symbol, this crimson ilag, is here with 
 you. But the story of its glory is too long to be told to-day. 
 
 During the exciting times of Nullification the W. L. I. 
 ranged itself on the side of the Union. There Avere good 
 men and true on eitlier side, but tlie logic of events" has 
 proven they were wise in their decision. Through fifty 
 years your corps was composed of the leading men of this 
 community and enjoyed its coniidence and received its 
 honors. This corps went to share tlie dangers, for there 
 was little glory. 
 
 IN THE SEMINOLE WAR 
 
 in Florida, and Lieut. Wm. Blanding, of the W. L. F., led 
 the Charleston com{>any to Mexico and fought in the imnun-- 
 tal Palmetto Regiment, whicli shed a lustre of glory on the 
 State of South Carolina. For thirty years before 18(50 the 
 muttering of the coming storm was heard throuu'h this 
 W'hole land. It has been [tut into an aplu)rism. '• the ii-rc- 
 pressible conflict." Men jeered the term and riilieuled it 
 
4i] 
 
 when W. H. Seward iirst gave utterauce to the sentence, 
 but tew now will dispute that lie summed it all in three 
 words. 
 
 THE CIVIL WAR. 
 
 But the hour came, the clock had struck, a sectional 
 President was elected on 7th November, I860. Judije 
 Ma.grath threw off his judicial robe as Federal Judge. Tlie 
 Federal District Attorney, Capt. James Conner, mem- 
 ber of the W. L. r., resigned. We all lost our heads in the 
 wild excitement of those days. A few, a very few, looked 
 on aghast, unsympathetic and full of dire forebodings, but 
 they kept silent and in the deepest retirement. The popu- 
 lar resentment was so vehement and so emphatically ex- 
 pressed. Governor Pickens thought it would produce some 
 action on the part of the General Government, and that the 
 arms in the United States Arsenal would be removed by the 
 United States Government, so on the 12th November he 
 detailed the W. L. I. to keep guard over the Arsenal in 
 Asldey Street. The W. L. I. had from its inception till 
 then been loyal to the Union, but underlying its very life 
 was its love for and devotion to South Carolina ; and there 
 was no hesitation then, at the call of the Governor, to answer 
 to his summons, though its guns were loaded to shoot, not 
 against South Carolinians, but against the armies of a nation. 
 They garrisoned this Arsenal for several weeks. This was 
 the first corps ordered on military duty in the late war. 
 Major Anderson, after setting fire to Fort .NFoultrie, had 
 evacuated it, in the night ol" •2r)-2«)th December, and had 
 occupied Fort Sumter. 
 
 Capt. Chas. li. Simonton, now Circuit Judgx' of the 
 Federal (;Ourt> was the conunander. In 18(!0, on 2l!th De- 
 cember, after service at the Arsenal, with other troops, the 
 W. L. I. were ordered to occupy Castle Pinckney. The Rt. 
 Ilev. Ellison Capers, D. D., now assistant l^ishoj) of this 
 diocese, who was there as an officer in 1st Regiment Rifles, 
 tells in a somewhat humorous way, the story of the execu- 
 tion of this order. In the first chapters of what became so 
 tragic a volume there were numy things grotes(|uely ludi- 
 crous, which ought to be written and transmitted by the 
 
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 actors and witnesses, alas, so ftist passiiju; from tlie sta^^e of 
 Hfe.^ In March, 18(11, tlie ^Y. L. I, were ordered to Sulli- 
 van's Island and occupied Fort Washiiio-ton at the extreme 
 northeastern end of the Island, and were on duty there 170 
 strono- when the fleet for the relief of Fort Sumter appeared 
 oft the bar. W'lien we think of what came after, it tells 
 the story of what we thouo-],t the wav was ^oin^ to be bv 
 lookin.o- over our bills of supply, furnished l)y our o?d friends, 
 Messrs. Klinck & Wickenburg, in which Spanish olives and 
 pate de fol cjras and champagne and Spanish cigars luive a 
 conspicuous place. If we began with sucli ideas'; dear com- 
 rades, whose memory we would keep alive by this granite 
 shaft, and whose names are graven on these tablets of bronze, 
 but Avhat privations you endured, what sufterino; you expe- 
 rienced before the supreme sacrific-e of your lives, for vour 
 countrv and her cause. 
 
 ON TO VIR(JINIA. 
 
 The question had arisen. What companies should t^o to 
 Virginia ? A meeting of the W. L. I. was called to con'sider 
 their duty in the matter, but in view of the anticipated im- 
 pending invasion of the State it was determined the time 
 had not come for the whole command to go. A portion of 
 the company dissented from the decision, and T. M. Logan, 
 Theo. Klinck and Wm. Dotterer, with your (Miaplain, crys- 
 tallized that dissent. Some ftfty of the old command organ- 
 ized and after some delay -Mr. Benjamin J. Johnson ^was 
 elected Captain. The next morning at the request of the 
 company, which had taken the name of the ^Y . L. I. Vol- 
 unteei's. I started oft' to .Nfr. Johnson's plantation, some 
 eighteen miles from Mount Pleasant. 
 
 I arrived there towards evening, and I have often had 
 some qualms of conscience since. I was weh-omcd with 
 old time Southern hospitality, they not dreamini>: what my 
 errand was. We spent a pleasant evening : it was a happv. 
 Christian family. It was the last such evening of that 
 household. The evening was closed with family praver, a 
 good old custom of the olden days, I fear much' negfected 
 in what some call the Xew South. The household servants 
 
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 l)roni;-lit in their benches um] joined in the eveninsj devo- 
 tions, sini>;ing the hymns and nniting in the Lord's Prayer. 
 These were shives. After the family retired, I broke to 
 Mr. Johnson the purport of my visit, and tendered to him 
 tlie unanimous election as Captain of the W. L, I. Volun- 
 teers. Long and earnest was our discussion, and the day 
 had nearly dawned ere we retired. He wished to consult 
 his wife. T told him 1 must leave early in the morning with 
 his decision. Lnmediately after breakfast we walked out 
 and he told me he had determined to accept and would be 
 with us the next evening at the Military Hall in Wentworth 
 Street. I had given Lieut. Logan a signal which would 
 mean acceptance. So I stood in the bow of the steamer, 
 and long before we reached the wharf I had given him the 
 siii-iuil and he had rushed off to the bulletin boards and put 
 up the notice and summoned the men. We met. The 
 enthusiasm was intense. A number of men applied to joiti 
 the company, and we adjourned to meet the Captain the 
 following evening. I had presided at every meeting from 
 the tirst till then. The meeting was held at the Military 
 Hall. We knew Capt. Johnson had arrived, and was in the 
 buildino". A committee went out to bring him in. We waited 
 long. Lieut. Logan came and called me out. Capt. John- 
 son had on his arrival in the city received a telegram from 
 Columbia from Col. Wade Hampton tendering to him the 
 position of Lieutenant Colonel of his Legion. He told us 
 he felt bound to us, but left it to us to decide. Klinck, 
 Dotterer, Logan and myself at once released him from his 
 obligation, but then we had to break it to the company and 
 o-et them to contirm our decision. It was a great disappoint- 
 ment^ but we determined to persevere. 
 
 IT WAS AN ANXIOUS NIGHT. 
 
 Next day Logan and 1 met in Broad Street about 11 
 o'clock in the morning. We were standing just in front of 
 the Charleston Jjibrary. The name of no one had occurred 
 to us. Just then a party came out of Paul tV Brown's store 
 and walked towards St. Michael's Church. Like a flash of 
 lightning it struck me, and seizing Logan by the arm, I 
 
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 said, why there is tlie iiiati. Tie saw it toe. Go after him 
 he said. I crossed over and joined him. It was 
 
 .lAMKS CONNER, 
 
 an old W. L. I. P.etore we reached St. Michael's ("lnueli f 
 tendered to liim the command. .1 told him if lie would 
 accept I would guarantee his unanimous election. We stood 
 under old St. Michael's poreh for a long wJiiU., and hefore 
 we [larted he said if he was unanimously elected he would 
 accept. Wv circulated it in the community that we had 
 found the man. There was a large meeting; when the 
 name of James Conner was proposed it was received with 
 wild enthusiasm: he was elected at once. A committee 
 went after him : he came, accepted ; I vacated the chair. 
 The W. L. I. Volunteers had been accepted as Co. A, 
 Hampton Legion, and left for Columbia in May to join that 
 command with the following officers : James Conner, Cap- 
 tain : James Lowndes, 1st Lieutenant: T. M. Los-an. 2d 
 Lieutenant: Theo. K. Klinck, 3d Lieutenant: AVm. A. 
 Dotterer, Orderly Sergeant. The rest you know. 
 
 The history of the corps from 1807 to 18(50 is well known. 
 What they did in that gigantic w^ar, this granite obelisk is a 
 symbol and tells in part theii- history, and will preserve to 
 posterity the stcry how there was " one company in peace, 
 and three full companies in war.*" The sad storv of their 
 '' patience, fortitude and unswerving tidelity to South Caro- 
 lina '" these bronze tablets will tell our children. The 
 ghastly tale was pathetically told from this spot by your then 
 orator Ex-Capt. Simonton wlien the untinished shaft was 
 unveiled three years ago. I)ut the history of your corps 
 was not tinished when the last act ended in the late civil 
 war. IJrilliant as was its record in ante-bellum times, illus- 
 trious as is the story of its part in that war, 
 
 ITS POST-RELLUM CAREER 
 
 is not wanting in high purpose and great achievement. I 
 am here to speak of its later life, to tell what you have done 
 for South Carolina in the efiorts you have made for hei- wel- 
 fare. The younger generations scarcely know how foi- lon^- 
 years, Itayonet rule, alien and ignoi-ant rnlei' dominated 
 
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 this State and community.- The man whose word was law 
 to all Southerners — Robert E. Lee, whose name we mention 
 with reverence, and he wlio was next to his great Captain, 
 Joseph E. Johnston, had advised the soldiers after their 
 surrender to return to their homes and resume their duties 
 as citizens of a common country under one common Hag. 
 It was an honorable course, and no doubt it would not have 
 been difficult to pursue but for the conditions which quickly 
 arose, and that made it galling for a military corps so iden- 
 tified with the Southern cause. It is easy now, but to the 
 men of '65 and '06 to '76 it required the highest moral 
 courage and the most unbounded self-control to initiate 
 faithfully and pursue this path of honorable but self-sacrifi- 
 cing duty. 
 
 Soldiers, those were days in which there was no place 
 for what the world calls gallant deeds, for heroic courage. 
 There were no exciting campaigns, no opportunities for mil- 
 itary distinction. But the decade from 1866 to 1876 is as 
 yet an unwritten history. I trust some graphic writer will 
 arise to tell to future ages how the men who had fought for 
 four years that bloody strife displayed a moral courage and 
 a true manhood in these years of so-called peace equal to 
 that physical courage which had been displayed on so many 
 battle-fields. 
 
 The survivors of the three companies came back from the 
 field, from prisons, from hospitals, to their homes in Charles- 
 ton. Fire and shells had made her a wreck, her railroads 
 were destroyed, her wharves were in ruins, her banks were 
 wiped out, a great belt of fire had swe})t her diagonally 
 from Cooper to Ashley River. A number of her finest 
 houses in the lower part of the city had been shattered by 
 shot and shell. The surrounding country was one scene of 
 desolation. Her sons were nearly all [)enniless. 
 
 " On the tomb of Hope interred 
 Stood the spectre of Despair.' 
 
 CARPET-BAG RULE. 
 
 The so-called reconstruction period began, and negro 
 supremacy rose up to humiliate and if })ossible to crush the 
 last lingering signs of life in men who had so fought that it 
 
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 was an honor to receive tlieir surrender. But that life 
 would not die. Some thought that the military career of the 
 W. L. I. was ended, some thought that the memory of the 
 sad past ought to be guarded and preserved, and also felt 
 there was "duty still to be done" in new fields of honor and 
 usefulness. There was, however, one common thought — 
 the reunion of the old membership. But how ? The con- 
 ditions did not permit a military movement, and in what 
 way could they honor the dead and yet meet their obliga- 
 tions to the living ? The question was settled by the for- 
 mation of 
 
 THE W. L. I. CHARITABLE ASSOCIATION. 
 
 Its object was to help the widows and orphans and the 
 mothers and sisters of those men whose names are engraved 
 on these bronze tablets, and to help the destitute sick 
 among the survivors. This was the first organization of 
 the kind in the State, in the South, and, as far as we know, 
 in the Union. The survivors rallied at once, and out of 
 their penury shared with those who stood in need and had 
 none of their own to aid them. 
 
 It may seem now that this was an easy thing to do, but 
 those of us who know the actual financial condition of those 
 days look back witli wonder at the spirit of self-sacrifice 
 which induced the men of that day to share of their penury 
 with those more bereaved than they. Ft was the W. L. I. 
 that did it: nor had the charitable association long con- 
 tinued before they determined to erect a monument to the 
 memory of the dead. And by them was unveiled in April, 
 1870, the first memorial to the Contcderate dead — indeed, 
 we believe the first monument to tlie dead on either side in 
 the war between the States. 
 
 it is a fact, I think, which cannot be controverted, that 
 the annual decoration of the graves of the soldiers oriiri- 
 nated in the South. The veterans from the battlefield 
 thought that the name of our dead should be inscribed on 
 their first monument, which proved to have been made of 
 imperfect materials, and the W. \j. I. of to-day. who have 
 erected this shaft to lake the place of the defective eolunin, 
 have thought the same, hence our ceremony now. 
 
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 Tlic fcaiiul political condition ot" the tStute came to l)e 
 
 tiiliv realized by the year 1870, and public opinion settled 
 
 to the lielief 
 
 " That diseases dosperate grown, 
 By desperate appliance are relieved. " 
 
 It was still the time ot" strangcM" rule behind the ciNil I'ule. 
 the then Government of the^tate; and the Carolina mili- 
 tary spirit was once more evoked. The young men of this 
 city organized themselves into 
 
 RIFLE CLlJliS. 
 
 The charitable association had shown the value of organ- 
 ization and intercourse, and readily from it sprang the Ritle 
 Club of tlie ^V. L. I. 
 
 Citizens, yon are free to-day, but you know not what 
 debt you owe to those gallant men of 1870 who organized 
 those rifle clubs. It took as ranch nerve and courage to 
 reorganize as it did for tliem to march to war. It was a 
 great stride in the real reconstruction of South Carolina to 
 have this white military organization. Tlie State caught 
 the spirit enkindled here in this old C'ity by the Sea, and 
 soon from the seaboard to the mountains South Carolina 
 was an armed camp. They were armed wdth their own 
 rifles ; they believed force would be necessary to redeem the 
 State, and they ^^'ere fully ready to use force. The health 
 of Capt. Peronneau had failed and in the spring of 1872 a 
 new commander had to be chosen. The late Capt. J. M. 
 Carson, of the W. L. I., was made chairman of the com- 
 mittee to flnd that ofiicer. It has been a peculiar facult}' o^ 
 the W. L. I. to have material when it has need and to find 
 what they want when they look for it. One num suggested 
 himself to everybody, and when the committee [>roposed 
 the name of 
 
 WM. A. COURTENAY 
 
 it is needless to say it was received with enthusiasm, and 
 liis election was unanimous. (^apt. Courtenay at once 
 assumed command, and a new life was enthused into tiie 
 historic corps. His known love for this company dated 
 back to his youth. His love for tlie war companies was 
 deep and fer\ id. The friends of his early manhood, living 
 
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 and (lead, were lari;-elv iiiciiiliers of tlic W. J.. I. Ir is iiol 
 iiecessarv to tell C'liarlcstou of his ability, eiieru-y, zeal and 
 devotion. The le<iend in St. Tanl's Cathedral, Loiuh^n, 
 reu-ardino; Sir (1iristo}.lier \\'ren, its architect, reads, "Would 
 you see his monument, look around you." 80 Capt. Cour- 
 tenay's monuments, built by himself, are all around you : 
 all his best (jualities comluned to devel()[) the interests of 
 the W. L. T.. and the results were (juickly showii. The 
 ranks were tilled with young men of cliaracter and influ- 
 ence, and the g-rand old corps entered upon a new and 
 useful career. 
 
 Up to this date there had l)een no public demonstration 
 anywhere in the State of the old commemorative days. 
 Xaturally enough the public mind was in great irritation. 
 The sting of defeat, with all the dire calamities it involved, 
 had been nuide more ])oignant by the coercive measures 
 attempted by the General (Trovernment, and the infliction of 
 Radical and negro rule upon this Commonwealth had 
 brought us to such an extremity that it had been fitly called 
 the prostrate State. IJut the W. L. I. was again a 7^/(152 
 military company, and ir did not ])ropose to let that be a 
 mere holiday existence. The flag of the Union had been 
 nominally accepted by the people of South Carolina, but 
 even the ante-bellum celel)ration of the biithday of Wash- 
 ington had fallen in desuetude. It was classed with the 4th 
 of .Inly and everything else that belonged to the past. Capt. 
 Courteiiay felt this ought not to be, but how to revive it 
 without doing more harm than good, so lender and irritable 
 was the public mind. lie did not act alone. Long and 
 anxious and frecjuent were the conferences as to the wisdom. 
 the expediency and the policy of reviving the observance of 
 that day. The lion. W. 1). Porter, (ieii. F. \V. Cajters. 
 Col. A. O. Andrews. Capt. T. Y. Sinu)iis. all old Liu'lit 
 Infantrymen who have gone before, and of those still alive 
 dudge Hryan, Capt. Hatch, Major Gilchrist, your si)eaker 
 and others reviewed the sul)ject in all its bearings, and at 
 length agreed to Capt. Courtenay's views. It was m)t hastv 
 or impulsive action, it was not to glorily the \V. h. 1. oi- 
 himself, but it was a bold, progressive im)vement in the 
 
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 best interests of the community. He submitted the decision 
 to liis command ; quickly they adopted it and entered into 
 it with spirit and determination. The W. L. I. resolved to 
 celebrate the 22d of February, 187o. 
 
 Washington's birthday. 
 The announcement was received by the community with 
 icy coldness ; we who were behind the scenes received the 
 deepest impressions, and are best able to record the history. 
 The senior Captain, the Hon. W. J). Porter — the orator of 
 the silver tongue — was chosen to pronounce the oration. 
 Capt. Hatch, next in rank, was to command the great parade. 
 Before the day arrived the co-operation of all the rifle clubs 
 was secured, and that day was Charleston's first gala day 
 after the war. Men walked with firmer step, and heads 
 erect, women felt their natui-al protectors were in line again. 
 The throngs which lined the streets, the crowd which pressed 
 into the theatre, the chiming of the bells, the national salute 
 from the United States headquarters, the first friendly Fed- 
 eral guns fired in South Carolina for many years, initiated 
 a new era, and gave promise of success in this bold departure. 
 It may seem strange to some of my hearers that there could 
 liave been any difficulty or doubt in so manifestly correct a 
 thing to do, but that the W. L. I. did it then has helped to 
 bring about the conditions which now make this strange- 
 ness appear. It is only truth to say that the scliolarly and 
 eloquent address of Ca]_)t. Porter, and the ap})roval and 
 co-operation of the public in tliat demonstration of the 22d 
 of February, 1873, re-established the W. L. I. in its leader- 
 shi}) of our city military. When the white [)eople of the 
 State had reasserted themselves in 187H. Washington's birth- 
 day was made the brigade day for the military of the city. 
 
 THE widows' friend. 
 
 In 1875 the corps determined to raise a permanent fund 
 for the relief of the families of our dead. I well remember 
 how chaotic were our plans until one night Capt. Courtenay, 
 Cai»t. T. V. Simons, Major Gilchrist, Mr. J. L. Honour and 
 3'our s})eaker met to discuss tiie feasibility of having a fair. 
 After much discussion and no conclusion it was resolved to 
 
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 turn the wliole res[)()ii^il)ility ovrr to Major ( Jilchrist, wlio 
 consented to risk the odium of tuilurc, wliilc every member 
 ot the W. L. I. and every recipient of the results of his 
 effort should, and no doubt will, accord to him the full credit 
 for its eminent success. 
 
 An incident indicative of the coming of a better time, of 
 more cordial, and fraternal feelings with those Avhom we 
 had fought as enemies, should be recorded in the minutes 
 of those days. Mr. J. K. flail, of Boston, Mass., had become 
 a warm friend of Capt. Courtenay, and hearing of the object 
 of this fair, requested to be allowed to prepare a table as 
 Boston's oftering to this object. Ice had to be broken, and 
 the ice was pretty thick, but it was broken, broken through 
 and shivered to pieces. It was a graceful act, generously 
 and liberally sustained, and graciously accepted, and like all 
 good deeds was but the harbinger of another. In one short 
 week a fund was raised which, by the able management of 
 the trustees for nineteen years, enables me to say that to-day 
 it amounts to $15,000, yielding an income of |1,050 which 
 is annually distributed to the loved ones wlio need, of those 
 whose names you read on these tablets. Well done, W, 
 L. I. The reception given to the committee from Boston 
 in charge of their table at the Easter Fair induced a cordial 
 invitation for the corps to go to Boston and Join in 
 
 THE BUNKER HILL GELERRATIOX, 
 
 in June, 1<S75. I remember the day and the spot on East 
 Bay when I was shown the letter of invitation, and asked 
 my opinion. It was a surprise and for a moment T felt we 
 could not go, but quickly recognizing the opportunity I 
 counselled acceptance. The old advisers, W. I). Porter, 
 Judge Biryan, Courtenay, Gilchrist, Simons, Hatch and 
 others took counsel together and determined to prepare the 
 corps first, and then the public, for the step. There was 
 some little hesitation naturally, for it was a hazardous move. 
 IIow would they be received, and how would our people 
 look upon their going? As to the first I had some experi- 
 ence and felt confident that a weh-onie awaited them of 
 which thev little dreamed. For our t'ellow citi/ens I felt 
 
56 
 
 sure that \\\v iTci^'ption in rxiston would satisfy theui as to 
 the wisdom and jiatriotisiu of" their visit. The strong com- 
 mon sense and steady nerve of ('apt. \V. J). Porter, Judge 
 Brvan, ('apt. (V)urtenay and others had its influence, and 
 sixty ol the men agreed to go under comnuind ol' Lieut. 
 K. C. (Jilclirist. and ('apt. Thos. Y. Simons was a[(pointed 
 orator. Your chaplain was to have accompanied tliem, Init 
 was taken (h'sjierately ill just as he was al)out to lea\-e his 
 house for the steamer in which tlie corps was to go. An 
 old friend of mine, one of Boston's forenjost citizens, told 
 me afterwards it was well for me in my enfeel)led condition 
 tliat I had not li'one, for I could not have hoi'ue the excite- 
 ment. It was months after, hut the tears rolled down his 
 venerable cheeks, as he told of the efl"ect in Boston of that 
 small command, the AY. L. T., from Charleston, S. (\, 
 marching with the l)attle flag of Eutaw waving over their 
 ranks. There was a mighty tiost that day in Boston, but 
 tliat little band was the centre of attraction. Men, women 
 and children gathered round and cheered and cheered until 
 they were hoarse. Tears of gratitude that peace had come, 
 that the war was over, that the Union was a fact, were shed 
 bv men of frosted head, who never expected to hear the 
 friendly tread of South Carolina troops on Boston Common, 
 hospitality so profuse that onl}- good Southern constitutions 
 could stand it, and champagne so abundant that only level 
 heads could liave resisted it. But it was often remarked to 
 me after this in Boston, it was noticed that every man 
 among them never forgot for a moment tliat he was a South 
 Carolinian and a gentleman. Uut, W. L. I., your visit was 
 of far more conse(|Uuce than the good time you had, 1 
 kncnv what 1 say, when I declare that visit to Boston effected 
 a revolution of sentiment in all Xew England. The files of 
 the daily press of that (hy will bear me out in the state- 
 ment, besides the personal knowlt'dge I oi)taiiied in the 
 prosecution of my own liie woi'k. and 1 k.iow the feelings 
 it proihiced and the widespread intluence it exercised made 
 it i)Ossil>le in 1877 for President Hayes to recognize our 
 W'adt' Hampton as (iovernor-elect of South Cai'olina. P>ut 
 I must hurrv on. Jn ISKi the \Y. P. I. hore the Eutaw 
 
57 
 
 flag luuler comniaiid of Major Gilchrist to the Centennial 
 celebration in Philadelphia as the colors for the legion com- 
 posed of comi)anies which went one from each of the orig- 
 inal thirteen States. This legion was organized by the 
 W. L. I. 
 
 In 1877 (Tovcrnor Hami)ton was your guest on the tiftieth 
 anniversary of the custody of the Eutaw flag, the 19th of 
 April, the anniversary ot the battle of Lexington, Capt. 
 Courtenay again in command. In 1879 the 22d of Febru- 
 ary was dedicated to the reopening of the Citadel Academy, 
 that institution so dear to the heart of Charleston and for 
 which you cherish so warm a regard. In May, 1879, you 
 went to Columbia to the dedication of the Confederate 
 Monument of Richland County in command of Major Gil- 
 christ. In 1881, under the command of Capt. Geo. T>. 
 P>ryan, you went to Spartanburg at the unveiling of the 
 imposing battle monument to the victors of the Cowpens, 
 which stands in Morgan Square and is surmounted bv a 
 grand bronze statue of Gen, Daniel Morgan, the commander 
 in that decisive victory, and for which statue Congress 
 appropriated $20,000. It was projected and carried through 
 by the W. L. I. Many general contributions were made 
 for the monument, and the Cincinnati Society of the State 
 of New York voluntarily contributed to it. In 1881 you 
 went 
 
 TO YORKTOWN, 
 
 under Capt. Marshall, to join in the celebration of the Cen- 
 tennial of the surrender of Lord Cornwallis. Companies 
 from JSTew Haven and Hartford visited Charleston as your 
 guests, and you returned the visit in 1883 under Capt. 
 Marshall, while at the same time some of the corps under 
 Lieut. Lamb Johnston went to Camden, when the unveil- 
 ing of the Confederate AEonument was celebrated. You 
 were present in New York again under Ca[)t. Ctilchrist at 
 the centennial celel)rati()ii of the inauguration as tirst Presi- 
 dent of the United States of the world's great citizen. 
 George AVashington. And on the 29th of May, 1890, a"-ain 
 under Capt. Gilchrist, you were found among tlu> host that 
 gathered in lvichnu)iid at the unveiling ot' the statue of 
 
58 
 
 Virginia's great son, the compeer of her other son, George 
 AVashington, the heritage of the South, yes, the nineteenth 
 century's great gift to humanity, Robert Edward Lee. 
 Lastly, yon to-ihiy complete 
 
 THIS WORK OF LOVE. 
 
 The tirst monument erected by you at Magnolia proved 
 to be of perishable material and thirteen years ago Capt. 
 Courtenay and Major G. B. Edwards consulted as to the 
 feasibility of erecting a monument which would stand the 
 tooth of time. They had a small nucleus which by judi- 
 cious investment they managed in ten years to increase to 
 a substantial sum, when they then brought the matter in 
 detail to the attention of the corps. Major Edwards under- 
 took the duties of treasurer, and his devotion to the trust 
 and his intelligent management of the fund entitle him to 
 the well done of the corps. Very few in these days will 
 give such gratuitous service through so long a period as 
 thirteen years. The W. L. I. has acknowledged its obliga- 
 tion to Mrs. George M. Trenholm and those who co-operated 
 with her in the brilliant concert that they gave, and from 
 which your committee received substantial aid. You, by 
 your exertions, w4th the assistance of many generous friends, 
 have accomplished your task, and have given to your city this 
 more lasting shaft of granite, of which this city, through its 
 (V)uncil, has shown its appreciation by donating this con- 
 spicuous place as its site. I wish all those handsome 
 memorial shafts which the gallant living have erected to their 
 gallant dead in Magnolia Cemetery would be brought down 
 and placed in prominent positions throughout the city. 
 Why not on the three sides of Marion Square? The City 
 Council could not do a more graceful thing than to donate 
 sites for every one of them, and pay the expenses to bring 
 them here where the youth of the commuuity would daily 
 see them, and as they study the history of their country 
 ever have before them these illustrations of its patriotism 
 and its valor. 
 
 This occasion has confined me to the recital of tlie deeds 
 ol' one company, but, my fellow citizens, your safety and 
 
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 quu't jind |.caco have been hirgely due to ihc presence 
 anion..- you of a conscientious, well oro-anized and well 
 equipped military department. These various comnumds 
 have given their services and their means, primarily as it 
 appears, for their own gratification, but the moral and phy- 
 sical effect in the welfare of the community is beyond price. 
 The disorganization of such a force 
 
 AVOULD BE A BLUNDER 
 
 that would border on a crime. Does the community real- 
 ize and appreciate their value? And are no hindrances 
 thrown in their way ? We Americans make life too much 
 of a drudgery of dull routine. A few more holidays would 
 help young men to do their work with greater zest. Mer- 
 chants and bank officers, and employers generally, would 
 get better service from their employees if they paid a little 
 more attention and took more interest in their reasonable 
 and healthful recreation and enjoyment, Tt militates against 
 the success of any military corps if its members feel they 
 are forcing unwilling consent when even their military duty 
 requires them to take a day or even an afternoon off. 
 
 It was the purpose to have this celebration on the 16th of 
 June, the thirty-second anniversary of the battle of Secession- 
 yillo, but as it was thought it might be convenient to me, 
 it was postponed to the 28th of June, which is the anniver- 
 sary of the battle of Fort Moultrie. You are still com- 
 memorating a Carolina day. 
 
 A REMINISCENCE. 
 
 Will you bear witli me while 1 mention some touching 
 incidents connected with four of those whose names are on 
 those tablets. I was Cliaplain of the 2oth Regiment, of 
 which the W. L. I. formed a part. (^ol. Simonton was very 
 indulgent to his C^haplain, and though lights went out at 
 taps he i)ermitte(l a light in my tent as long as 1 wished it, 
 1 always had some of the boys with me. It Avas Sunday 
 night, the loth of dune, some ten or twelve of the meii 
 Avere with me singing hymns. Tlie last hymn they sang 
 Avas: "I]ow Down Thine Ear, O Lord." Ii was a tine 
 choir, and when they had fniishod 1 asked them all to kneel 
 
and I k'd tliciii ill prayer. AVe all said tlic liordV I'niyor 
 together; I rose and pronounced upon them the benedic- 
 tion prescribed in the prayer book of the Episco^tal Church. 
 I shook hands with each and bade good-night. Tt was 
 then just 12 o'clock; at 4 oYdoek in the morning, June 16, 
 1862, the long roll startled the camp. Soldiers knew what 
 that meant. In not many minutes the regiment was on 
 double (piiek towards Secessionville, which was attacked. 
 I mounted my horse and joined Dr. Wm. C. IJavenel, our 
 surgeon, and we rode after the regiment. They crossed an 
 open cotton tield and went into a skirt of wood. Between 
 the battery at Secessionville and themselves was a small 
 creek and wide marsh. Of course they could go no further, 
 but their position enliladed the Federals, who had made an 
 impetuous assault on the battery and had been repulsed. 
 They were coming up again with an overwhelming force 
 for another assault, wlien the 25th opened tire on them on 
 the flank. This checked the charge of the Federals, and 
 they turned their tire on the regiment. The bullets began 
 to fall pretty thick about Dr. Ravenel and myself, and I 
 urged him that the doctor's place was where he could take 
 care of the wounded, not where he could be shot himself. 
 He realized that this was so, and giving him my bridle I 
 begged him to take my horse to a place of safety. I went 
 on foot across the tield to about fifty yards in reai' of where 
 the regiment was doing some lively firing. Before the sun 
 rose that morning 1 had assisted in taking from the field 
 four of those who had been with me at 12 that night. 
 Tln-ee of tliem were dead — Fleetwood Lanneau, Kichard 
 W. Greer and Thos. N. Gadsden. One was mortally 
 wounded, J. H. Taverner. Their names are recorded there 
 on this shaft, and I am here still lingering on the stage. 
 
 IN CONCLUSION. 
 
 Dead comrades, if I could make you hear me I would 
 tell you how ottcn I liave thought of you, and of the two 
 last scenes in whieli we were together, and how often T have 
 thanke<l (Jod for you lor those hymns, that })rayer, and that 
 benediction at the mid-hour of tlie night which had no 
 morning in time for you, but which, I trust, ushered you 
 
HI 
 
 into ail etcj'iial day ol' briglitiiess and joy. It is a singidai' 
 fact that all of the killed and woiuidcd at Secessionville of 
 the W. L. 1. in the "25th Regiment were in Company B. on 
 the left of the l\egiment. 
 
 And now, W. L, I., you have your record very imperfectly 
 spread out before you. And what a record it is in the life 
 of a single corps in twenty-two years. Omitting the numer- 
 ous lesser W. L. I. celebrations and ceremonials, you note 
 the number of historic public occasions in whicli the com- 
 pany was either the originator or was in chief [)osition 
 " monument building; '' the great public o-atherinji-s North 
 and South, sagacious, brave action at crucial times, whicli 
 gave new direction to men's thoughts and actions, largely 
 changing tlx; condition of the prostrate State to one of new 
 life, new hope and long years of revived prosperity. The 
 truth of history will make this brilliant record for old 
 Charleston's loyal sons. 
 
 And now my task is done. I hope I have not wearied 
 you with the recital of your good deeds, l^nwortliily as 
 the record has been presented the mention is more ekxpient 
 than any studied words with wdiicli to dress important 
 events. My purpose, soldiers of the W. L. I., has been to 
 show you with what unwavering patriotism your corps has 
 given itself to our country from the ince[)tion of its organ- 
 ization to the present day. How true you have been to South 
 Carolina in all her heroic history I How, before the war, 
 you shared with her her duty to the Union; how when she 
 asserted her sovereignty 3'our energies and your lives were 
 offered on her altar. How when she laid down her arms 
 you obeyed her behests and tried to make a reality of the 
 command she gave yon to renew your allegiance to the 
 Union. You have held no inconspicuous position through 
 all these years and in all these great events. 'N'ou ha\e done 
 your part, and, my young brothers, this is your heritage. 
 Quit yourselves like men worthy to iidierit the patrinu)n\- 
 of your predecessors, liemember to love our countrv is 
 next to loving our God. To live for your country's lionor 
 and welfare is the teaching of the religion of Christ. Do 
 this and you will I'ver maintain the honor and the i^dorv 
 of the W." L.I. 
 
APPENDIX 
 
 ROLL 
 
 OF 
 
 i^o* ^f t^ixHlixnt^ton lliglit |(nfantrii, 
 
 OF 
 
 N LEGION INFANTRY, C. S. A., \m-K 
 
 CAPTAINS. 
 
 *James Connor, *T. M. Logan, 
 
 E. A. Thomas. 
 
 LIEUTENANTS. 
 
 James Lowndes, First. J. P. Gibbs, Jr., Ihird. 
 
 Theodore Klinck, First. W. E. O'Connor, Second. 
 
 James McElroy, First. W. A. Henning, Second. 
 
 T. C. Albergotti, Seco7id. Robert Roy, Jr., Third. 
 
 Wm.A. Dotterer, Jr., Third. G, T. Whilden, Jr., Third. 
 
 SERGEANTS. 
 
 J. II. Gardner, First. J. W. McGhee, Third. 
 
 Frank E. Taylor, First. E. II. Yates, Ihird. 
 
 Joel Copes, Second. i). P. Poppenheim, Third. 
 
 F. G. Coachman, Second. W. J. Dibble, Fourth. 
 
 George Daniell, Second. E. F. Coachman, Fourth. 
 
 J. Ancrnm Condy, Third. S. II. Stocker, Fourth. 
 
 .1. S. Green, Third. J. S. Simpkins, Fifth. 
 Ebon (^ofhn. Fifth. 
 
 COKPOIJALS. 
 
 K. II. Bomar. Jl. G. liaker. 
 
 U. N'cadon Smith. W. JI. lUuvn. 
 
 C. E. Strolieckcr. 
 
 *Proniotetl Britir.-lienoral. 
 
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 PKIVATES. 
 
 Ancriira, J. II. 
 Aveilbe, L. S. 
 Atkinson, J. A. 
 Atkinson, C. S. 
 Allen, V>. B. 
 Blum, J. A. 
 Butts, R. F. 
 Bruen, H. S. 
 Bird, W. C. 
 Brown, J. II. 
 Beckman, J. S. 
 Bossalieu, C. M. 
 Bhuikonsee, H. 
 Brantley, B. B.. 
 Budault, Robert 
 Bunch, J. S. 
 Beck, A. 
 Raker, T. D. 
 Rarham, R. W. 
 Calvert, J. M. 
 Coachman, S. 
 Cuttino, W. II. 
 Clark,.!. A. 
 Cay, T. L. 
 Clarkson, W. R. 
 Chapin, J. Jl. 
 (^oxe, C. E. 
 Crawford, D. 
 C^ook, James 
 Couturier, J. E. II 
 DeTreville, R. 
 Emanuel, Bhilip 
 Euianm-l, ('. ('. 
 Eddy, .1. A. 
 Eastcrling, E. C. 
 
 Egleston, 
 
 Erickson, C. E. 
 Edwards, Dr. 
 
 Fcrrcl, IT. C. 
 Ford, S. 
 Ford, W. II. 
 Ford, T. S. 
 Green, J. II. 
 Green, John 
 Ilutson, C. AV. 
 Hughes, \V. 11. 
 Hughes, F. R. 
 Ilowt, Jonas 
 Ileriot, W, C^ 
 Ilasel, R, G. 
 I ley ward, A. R. 
 
 Hunter, 
 
 Hall,E. (). 
 Inglesl)y, T. S. 
 Ivey,d.M. 
 Jones, C. E. 
 Jones, Weldrich 
 Jones, J. Quincy 
 Jones, Iredell 
 Jones, (^adwiillader 
 Jenkins, .1. Henry 
 -lenkins, Thomas 
 Jervey, Gabriel 
 Kennedy, John 
 Kennedy, H. E. 
 Kenyon, W. A. 
 Lloyd, Angus 
 
 Lloyd, ^ 
 
 Lacoste, E. J*. 
 Logan, G. W. 
 Leibcr, Oscar M. 
 Lowndes, Edward 
 Mustard, R. W. 
 Meyers, Jacol) 
 Middleton, Ily. A., Jr. 
 Morrison, Robert W, 
 
Morrison, Richard 
 Mulkai, T. D. 
 Masterman, E. J. 
 McDonald, A. G. 
 Mc(2uade, James 
 Missroon, James 
 McC^utcheon, T. II. 
 Owens, James B. 
 Phelps, George L. 
 Poppenheim, J, L, 
 Poyas, J, E. 
 Porcher, C P. 
 Postell, Jehu G. 
 Pitts, Charles 
 Petigrew, J. Johnstoi 
 Russell, J. B. 
 Reed, J. O. 
 Roux, H. 8. 
 Strohecker, O. E. 
 Smith, J. S. 
 Smith, T. II. 
 Smith, William 
 Sweet, R. 
 Stoney, E. G. 
 Spraguc, W. B. 
 Seaford, M. H. 
 
 Total, 1()1 
 
 65 
 PEIVATES. 
 
 Snow J. R. 
 
 Sterling, C. M. 
 
 Shackelford, E, L. 
 
 Sawyer, Leonard 
 
 Skipper, E. M. 
 
 Suggs, Arthur 
 
 Thompson, J. M. 
 
 Thompson, J. A. 
 
 Taylor, G. B. 
 
 Taylor, Hy. C. 
 
 Todd, W. II. 
 
 Tupper, James 
 
 Thomlinson, R. 
 
 Tyson, 
 
 1 Walker, T. K. 
 
 Walker, Douglas 
 
 Whitney, A. G. 
 
 Whitney, E. G. 
 
 Wilson, W. G. 
 
 Witherspoon, 
 
 Wharton, John 
 
 Whitmore, William 
 
 Ware, George 
 
 Vcrner, S. S. 
 
 Yerdier, II. E. 
 
 Yates, C. L. 
 officers and men : 48 dead. 
 
ROLL 
 
 OF 
 
 ^jo* ^t l^aslnnglon ||igW |(n)|anlrji^ 
 
 25th REGIMENT S. C. V., 18()l-f)S. 
 
 CAPTAINS. 
 
 *C. 11. 81MONT0N. James M. Carson. 
 
 LIEUTENANTS. 
 
 H. B. Olney, First. James A. Ross, Second. 
 
 Wm. Washington Fii^ihEY, Second. Jos. S. IIanahan, Second. 
 W. Dana Cotchett, Jr., Second. 
 
 SERGEANTS. 
 
 Win. Capers Owens, First. James E. Edgerton, Third. 
 
 W. M. Muckenfuss, First. Fred. IT. Honour, Fourth, 
 
 John L. Sheppard, Second. Charlton 11. Ragin, Fifth. 
 
 Henry D. Jones, Third. James A. Stevens, Fifth. 
 
 Alfred L. Olney, Fifth. 
 
 CORPORALS. 
 Fred. W. Miller, First. John B. Bhelps, Third. 
 
 Charles E. Ellis, Secojid.. Fred'k J. Kellers, Fourth. 
 
 C. T. Black, Second. Sam'l W. Dib))le, Fourth. 
 
 James IL Dickinson, Second. Q. Oibbs Blackwood, Fourth. 
 John G. Newcoman, Second. C. Elliott Rowand, Fifth. 
 W. G. Muckenfuss, 7'hird. Wm. B. Cowperthwait, Fifth. 
 
 ♦Promoted Colonel 2r)th S. C. V. 
 
 PRIVATES. 
 
 Adger, J. Ellison Barton, A. J. 
 
 Anderson, Sam'l W. Berry, Thomas T. E. 
 
 Baker, Henry G. Beasley, E. B. 
 
 Baker, E. B. Blackwood, J. C. 
 
 Ballot, F. G. Blanchard, F. S. 
 
 Barbot,- Julian liodow, H. F. 
 
(>7 
 
 rUlVATE8 
 Breese, S. Van Vcchtcii 
 Burn, Orville J. 
 Burroughs, Samuel L. 
 Burroughs, F. Marion, 
 Burnham, Edward S. 
 Bird, W. Cooper 
 Cahler, William 
 Calder, James 
 Calder, Edward E. 
 Carter, John W. 
 Chapman, Tiios. B. 
 Clayton, W. II. 
 Cox, E. P, 
 Connor, Geo. S. 
 Coste, N. E. 
 Crass, E. Frank, 
 Cross, B. H. 
 Cudworth, A. 
 Dixon, George W. 
 Douglass, Campbell 
 Dooley, W. 
 Dukes, T. Charlton II. 
 Dotterer, William 11. 
 Euslow, J. A., Jr. 
 Folker, O. F. 
 Forbes, W. II., Jr. 
 Gibson, Walter E. 
 Gowan, Peter E. 
 Galloway, William 
 Haas, John 
 Harper, F. M. 
 Hall, John II. 
 Honour, J. Lawrence 
 Honour, Theo. A. 
 Honour, Geo. McC. 
 Holmes, Wm, E. 
 Humphries, William K, 
 Jones, J. Walker 
 
 Jervey, William C. 
 Jeter, W. L, 
 Klinck, John, Jr. 
 Kingman, John W. 
 Kingman, Oliver II. 
 King, S, H. 
 Kiddell, Charles 
 Lambert, Walter 
 Lawton, J. Frampton, 
 Lanneau, Wm. S. 
 Lee, B. M 
 Lee, J. T. 
 Lee, Lawrence S. 
 Locke, P. P. 
 Locke, F. Otis, 
 Lovegreen, L. B. 
 Lucas, Benjamin, 
 Mahoney, D. A. 
 Marsh, David C. 
 Marsh, Jas. G. 
 Martin, J. S. 
 Masters, A. W. 
 Mey, Florian C. 
 Mellichamp, Jos. M. 
 Mellichamp, Wm, A. 
 Miller, Gustavus 
 Milnor, Vincent 
 Mintzing, J. F. 
 Muckenfuss, Wm. C. 
 McNamee, Jas. V. 
 McCabe, J. W. 
 O'Sullivan, Thos. F. 
 Ortmann, W. F. 
 Ortnumn, Julius F. 
 Patterson, W. N. 
 Pennal, A. F. 
 Pennal, K. E. 
 I*revost, Clarence 
 
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 Pritchard, A\rilliain E. 
 Porclier, Cbas. J. 
 Petit, J. J. 
 Proctor, Henry G. 
 Proctor Wm. K. 
 Ramsey, J. T, 
 Reid, George 
 Riols, A. T. 
 Robb, James 
 Robinson, S. A. 
 Salvo, James F. 
 
 Warren W, 
 
 Seyle, Sam'l H. 
 Sbei)i)ard, Penj. T. 
 Small, Josepb J. 
 Shelton,H. S. 
 Sbokes, G. W. 
 Shackleford, E. 11. 
 Seabrook, P. F. 
 Smyth, J. Adger 
 Smythe, Augustine T. 
 Steinmeyer, W. 11. 
 Schmidt, J, M. 
 l^alton. 
 
 Totixl, 139 officers and men. 44 dead. 
 
ROLL 
 
 OF 
 
 25th REGIMENT S. C. V.. 1801-65. 
 
 CAPTAINS. 
 
 Kdward W. Llovd, JosEi'ii S. Hanauan. 
 
 LIEUTENANTS. 
 
 KoiJEiiT A. Blum, First. Richard W. Greer, Second. 
 
 Samuel J. Burger, First, Robert M.Tapt, Second. 
 Henry L Greer, First. J. EDWARDB()xMAR,.rR.,*SVr'o/i(/. 
 
 SBKGEANTS. 
 
 Fleetwood Launeau, Jr., i^?rs/. Everett C. Edgertoii, Third. 
 T. Grange Simons, Jr., i^/r.s^. Robt. A. McLeod, Third. 
 John F. Marion, Second. Frederick K. Oliver, Third. 
 
 Wm. II. Jamison, Second. Albert W. Force, Fourth. 
 
 Frank E. Gyles, Second. Wm. Whittaker, Fifth. 
 
 J. Schayjter C.^aldvvell, Fifth. 
 
 CORPORALS. 
 
 John P. Gaillard. Leroy W. Hayes. 
 
 R. DeTrevillc Lawrence. Alfred Gray. 
 
 PRIVATES. 
 
 Atkinson, Anthony O. Boyce, J. Jeremiah. 
 
 Adams, Estell L., Jr. Cochran, William 
 
 Baker, Geo. S. Cantwell, Patrick II. 
 
 Beckman, Christian J . Copes, Frederick 
 
 Bomar, Geo. W, (filler, W. W. 
 
 Burns, Lawrence T. DeTreville, Edward W. 
 
 Blakely, R. Devoe, Jas. II. 
 
 Brown, Sam'l N. Doncin, P. M. 
 
 Brown, T. K. Dorre, C. Frederick 
 
 P.rown.J.IT. Duti, A. 
 
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 PKIVATES. 
 
 Dibble, M. W. 
 Edmoiiston, George 
 Flyiui, Williiiiu \i 
 V\yim, W. II. 
 Flynn, CIiuh. II. 
 Force, George II 
 Gadsden, Thos. N. 
 Gilliland, DuTiiel B. 
 Gilliland, Edward P.. 
 Glover, John B, 
 Glover, Leslie 
 Gibbs, Isaac B, 
 Grady, James T. 
 Grady, Edward 
 Graham, Stepbeii (J. 
 Grice, George 1). 
 Greer, W. Robert 
 Ilappoldt, J. H. 
 Houston, John II. 
 Hernandez, B. 
 Johnson, Chas. II. 
 Jamison, John W. 
 Lanneau, J. Bennett 
 Little, William 
 Logan, E. W. 
 Lebby, Thos. U. 
 Matthews, Christopher 
 Molloy, Lawrence B. 
 Martin, John C. 
 Mellard, Joel P. 
 Mellard, J. Pettigrew 
 Moffett, Geo. II. 
 Moore, William II, 
 Murray, L>. 1), 
 Meyer, II. 
 McCutchen, II. G. 
 
 West, Chas. 
 Total, 115 officers an 
 
 McDowell, Robert Il.,Jr 
 McMillan, W. F. 
 Muller, R. 
 Ortmann, Louis 
 Ortmann, Henry 
 Oilara, W. P. 
 Oliver, Thomas P. 
 Prior, Barney R. 
 Riecke, Gerhard, 
 Renneker, Fred. W. 
 Rennerker, J. Henry 
 Robbins, E. Frank 
 Saltus, Samuel 
 Schulte, J. Hermann 
 Shatter, R, Randolph 
 Shatter, William H. 
 Shaifer, B, C. 
 Simons, W. Lucas 
 Silcox, James 
 Silcox, Daniel S. 
 Shirer, John 
 Shecut, John Eraser 
 Smith, John B. 
 Stocker, John D. 
 Strong, S. J. 
 Taft, A. Walton 
 Taverner, J. H. 
 Tharin, Edward B. 
 Trnmbo, Augustus S. 
 Warren, Benjamin W. 
 Westendorfl', Chas. H. 
 Williamson, Chas. A. 
 Williams, Henry H., Jr. 
 Witschen, E. 
 Woodberry, S. B. 
 Wilkie, Octavius. 
 II., Jr. 
 
 d men ; 27 dead. 
 
mi 
 
 TABLETS, 
 
 SOUTH FACE OF MONUMENT. 
 
 " At every board a vacant chair, 
 
 Fills with quick tears some tender eye, 
 And at our maddest sport appears 
 
 A well known form that will not die ; 
 
 " Wo lift the glass, our hand is stayed, 
 
 We jest, a spectre rises up. 
 And weeping, though no word is said, 
 
 We kiss and pass the silent cup."* 
 
 THIS SHAFT COMMEMORATES 
 
 THE TATIENCE, FORTITUDE, HEROISM, 
 
 ITNSWERYING FIDELITY TO SOUTH CAROLINA 
 
 AND THE SACRIFICES OF 
 
 THE WASHINGTON LIGHT INFANTRY 
 
 IN THE WAR BETWEEN THE STATES. 1860- 'C5, 
 
 ONE COMPANY IN PEACE; THREE FULL COMPANIES 
 
 FOR THE WAR. 
 
 BESIDES THE MAIMED, WOUNDED AND CAPTURED 
 
 ONE HUNDRED AND FOURTEEN DIED IN BATTLE, 
 
 IN HOSPITAL. OR ON THE WEARY WAYSIDE 
 
 IN OBEDIENCE 
 
 .TO A SENTIMENT OF HONOUR AND THE CALL OF DUTY 
 
 AND IN PLEDGE OF THEIR SINCERITY THEY MADE 
 
 THE LAST SACRIFICE, THEY LAID DOWN THEIR LIVES 
 
 OFFICERS AND MEN 
 
 THEY WERE OF THE VERY FLOWER OF THIS 
 
 ANCIENT CITY, HER YOUNG HOPE AND FAIR RENOWN. 
 
 FORTUNA NON MUTAT GENUS. 
 
 ERECTED 1891. 
 
 John Diokson Bruns, M. D. 
 
NORTH FACE OF MONUMENT. 
 
 ■ And she points with tremulous hand below, 
 
 To the wasted and worn array 
 Of the heroes who strove in the morning glow, 
 
 Of the grandeur that crowned— the Orey. 
 
 Ahis ! for the broken and battered hosts ; 
 
 Frail wrecks from a gory sea, 
 Tho" pale as a band in the realm of ghosts, 
 
 Salute them! they fought with Lee."* 
 
 LIEUTENANTS. 
 
 Klin(u<, Theodore K. IIennino, \V. A. 
 
 TIuoiiES, F. Porcher, Sergt.-Major. 
 
 SERGEANTS. 
 
 McCJee, G. W. 
 
 Strohecker, O. ¥j. 
 
 Atkinson, C. S. 
 Brantley, B. B. 
 Coxe, C. E. 
 Cay, Thad. 1.. 
 Hughes, W. II. 
 Jenkins, Thos. 
 Kennedy, John 
 McDonald, A. (4. 
 Myers, Jacob 
 lioux, H. S. 
 Smith, T. H. 
 Sterling, C. M. 
 Seafbrd, II. M. 
 Todd, W. H. 
 Wharton, John 
 
 Coachman, E. F. 
 
 COEPORALS. 
 
 PRIVATES. 
 
 Smittt, R. Yeadon. 
 
 Jilankensee, Henrj- 
 Blum, J. A. 
 Chapin, J. R. 
 Farrell, H. C. 
 Jones, J. (l- 
 Janey, Gabriel, 
 Liebcr, O. M. 
 Middleton, H. A. 
 Phelps, G. J J. 
 Sweat, Robert 
 Smith, J. S. 
 Suggs, Arthur 
 Taylor, H. C. 
 Verdier, W. E. 
 
 Wittemore, Wm. 
 TRANSFERRED TO OTHER COMMANDS. 
 Pettigrew, J. J.. Brig.-Gen. Gardner, J as. B., Lieut 
 
 •Paul H. Hayne. 
 
WEST FACE OF MONUMENT. 
 
 i^0. ^^ 25tlt ^tQtmtnt^ ^. ^. 1^. 
 
 " Where some beneath Virginian hills, 
 And some by green Atlantic rills, 
 Some by the waters of the West, 
 A myriad unknown heroes rest. 
 
 " And we can only dimly guess 
 
 What worlds of all this world's distress. 
 What utter woe, despair and dearth. 
 Their fate has brought to many a hearth."* 
 
 Dickinson, J, H 
 Olney, a. L. 
 
 Kellers, F. W 
 
 Anderson, Samuel C 
 Ballot, F. C. 
 Blackwood, John C 
 Beasley, E. B. 
 Burrows, I. M. 
 Calder, James 
 Dooley, Wm. 
 Hall, J. 
 
 Jones, J. Walker 
 Lee, Lawrence S, 
 Mahoney, D. A. 
 Muckenfuss, W. C. 
 Petit, J. J. 
 Proctor, H. G. 
 Small, J. J. 
 Sheppard, B. T. 
 
 Eoss. J^MEs A., Lieut. 
 SERGEANTS. 
 
 Owens, W. C. 
 Stevens, J. Adger 
 COEFORALS. 
 
 ^Newcomer, J. G. 
 PRIVATES. 
 
 Baker, H. G. 
 
 Bedault, H. E. 
 
 Breese, Stewart Van V. 
 
 Burrows, S. L. 
 
 Burn, O. J. 
 
 Dotterer. Wm. A. 
 
 Gibson, Walter E. 
 
 Jeway, Wm. C. 
 
 Klinck, John, Jr. 
 
 Lee, J. T. 
 
 Locke, F. Otis 
 
 McCabe, J. W. 
 
 Mellichamp, J. M. 
 
 Patterson, W. N. 
 
 Pritchard, W. 
 
 Eobinson, S. A. 
 
 ♦Henry Timrod 
 
EAST FACE OF MONUMENT. 
 
 ^0. ^^ 2i{h It^giment^ ^. i^. ^* 
 
 " Furl that banner, true 'tis gory, 
 
 But 'tis wreathed around with glory, 
 And 'twill live in song and story, 
 Though its folds are in the dust ; 
 
 " For its fame on brightest pages, 
 Sung by poets, penned by sages. 
 Shall go sounding down the ages ; 
 
 Furl its folds, though now we must."* 
 
 Blum, Robt. A., Lieut., Commanding. 
 
 LIEUTENANTS. 
 Greer, R. W. Taft, R. M.. Bomar, J. E. 
 
 SERGEANTS. 
 
 Lanneau, F., Jr. Marion, J. F. Whitaker, Wm. 
 
 Blakeley, R. 
 Caldwell, J. S. 
 Grady, E. 
 Gray, Alfred, 
 
 PRIVATES. 
 O'Hara, W. P. 
 Saltus, Samuel 
 Taverner. J. H. 
 Burns, L. T. 
 
 Gadsden, Thos. N., Jr. 
 
 Gibbes, I. B. 
 Gilliland, E. B. 
 Oliver, Thomas 
 Silcox, James 
 Tharin, E. B. 
 
 Transferred to otiher Commands from Cos. A, B, 25th. 
 
 LIEUTENANT-COLONELS. 
 
 Johnson, B. J. DeTreville, Egbert 
 
 Dibble, S. W., Lieut., Adjutant. 
 
 LIEUTENANTS. 
 
 Alston. J. J. P. Glover, Leslie Lesesne, H. R. 
 
 Bee, J. S. Glover, W. E. Reagan, C. H. 
 
 Fuller, E. N., Jr. Gregg, J. B. Seabrook, C. P. 
 
 PRIVATES. 
 Plemming, W. H. Graham, G. C. 
 
 Schmidt, J. M. 
 
 Father Rvan. 
 
75 
 
 ENGAGEMENTS 
 
 IN WHICH THE W. L. I. COMPANIES PARTICIPATED, 
 
 1 860-65. 
 
 APPOMATTOX, 
 BATTERY WAGNER, 
 BOONESBORO GAP, 
 BERMUDA HUNDREDS, 
 COLD HARBOR (Lst and 2d), 
 CHICKAMAUGA, 
 CHARLES CITY ROAD, 
 CAMPBELL STATION, 
 DEEP BOTTOM, 
 DARBY TOWN ROAD, 
 DRURY'S BLUFF, 
 ELKIN'S LANDING, 
 FORT SUMTER, 
 FORT FISHER. 
 FARMYILLE, TENN., 
 FORT ANDERSON, 
 FREDERICKSBURG, 
 GAINES' MILL, 
 KNOXVILLE, 
 LANIER'S STATION, 
 
 LEGARE'S POINT, 
 MANASSAS (l8t and 2d), 
 MALVERN HILL, 
 NINE MILE ROAD, 
 NEW MARKET, 
 PETERSBURG, 
 RICHMOND, 
 RIDDLE'S SHOPS, 
 RIVERS, S. C, 
 SECESSION VILLE, 
 SEVEN PINES, 
 SHARPSBURG, 
 SWIFT CREEK, 
 THOROUGHFARE GAP, 
 TURKEY RIDGE, 
 TOWN CREEK, * 
 WALTHAL JUNCTION, 
 WELDON ROAD, 
 WELLS' VALLEY, 
 YORKTOWN. 
 
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