ABBEVILLE COUNTY, SC - NEWSPAPERS - Abstracts from The Abbeville Press Dec 1863 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/sc/scfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed by: Candace Gravelle tealtree@comcast.net July 21, 2007 The Abbeville Press December 1863 NEWSPAPER ABSTRACTS FROM "THE ABBEVILLE PRESS", Abbeville, South Carolina for DECEMBER 1863 NEWSPAPER Issue of Friday, DECEMBER 4, 1863 DEATH OF MR. JAMES IRWIN It is with the deepest regret that we announce the death of our highly esteemed friend and neighbor, Mr. James Irwin. He died at 9 o'clock Saturday night on the 28th ult. and his funeral services were performed by the Rev. W.G. Gaines on the following day, after which is remains were deposited in Long Cane church yard. In his death our community has lost one of its best citizens, one who had enlisted the confidence of all who knew him. We deeply sympathize with the bereaved wife and children. Peace to his ashes. -------- IN MEMORIAM Departed this life on Saturday the 28th of November 1863, James Irwin, in the 46th year of his age. Mr. Irwin was a member of Company F, 1st S.C. State Troops. He had been on the coast for some time and returned home with that scourge of camp life, chronic diarrhea in conjunction with jaundice and intermittent fever. He recovered from the severity of these symptoms but very soon relapsed, and the disease subsequently settled in his lungs which soon carried him off. No man stood higher in his neighborhood than Mr. Irwin. He was loved by all who knew him, was truthful and honest and upright in all his dealings, and more than this, he had ben the subject of serious religious impressions for a long time past, and only his sense of his "unworthiness" had prevented him from joining the church. Not long before he died, he told the writer that his way to Heaven was clear, that he could put his entire confidence in God for soul and body and for both worlds. It is confidently believed that he died a Christian. Medicus, Abbeville, Nov. 30, 1863 ------- NOTICE to Clerk of the Court of Abbeville District, S.C. You will please inform the following persons of the death of their negroes at the fortifications in order that they may take the necessary steps to secure pay for their loss: T. Perrin's boy Amos, Nov. 15 S. Perrin's boy Robert, Nov. 15 A. Wideman's boy George, Nov. 18 E. Keller's boy Marion, Nov. 21 Respectfully, WM. M. Shannon, Ag't, S.C. --------- HOUSE AND LOT FOR SALE A nice and comfortable brick dwelling containing six rooms and lot attached, for sale in the town of Abbeville. Apply to Armstead Burt; Abbeville, Dec. 2, 1863 --------- STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, Abbeville District Ordinary Court Whereas, Ellington Searles has applied for Letters of Administration on the goods, chattels, rights and credits of George W. Newby, late of the said district aforesaid; this is therefore to cite all of the kindred and creditors of said deceased to appear at the next Ordinary's Court to be held at Abbeville courthouse on the 14th of December next, to show cause, if any, why said administration should not be granted. This 27th day of Nov., 1863. William Hill, O.A.D. --------- STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, Abbeville District Court of Equity Wm. S. Smith vs. James B. McCready and others Bill for sale of Slaves and Land Pursuant to an order of the court, I will sell at public outcry at Abbeville courthouse on Sale Day in December 7th, next, the plantation on which Wm. S. Smith resides near Cokesbury in two tracts. One containing about 250 acres mor or less and the other about 180 acres more or less and bounded by lands of Dr. Newton Sims, Polly Lomax, Robert Y. Jones and others. Wm. H. Parker, C.E.A.D., Commissioner's Office, Nov. 11, 1863 --------- STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, Abbeville District Court of Equity Ellie H. Agnew vs. Mary Anna Agnew and others Bill for Partition Pursuant to an order of the court, I will sell at public outcry at Abbeville Court house on Sale Day, on Dec. 7th next, the real estate of Dr. Enoch Agnew, deceased, about 4 miles from Hodges Depot on G. & C.R.R. and 5 miles from Cokesbury, containing 41 acres, more or less and bounded by lands of Marshall Sharp, Green Riley and others. On the tract is a comfortable dwelling house with eight rooms and all necessary out buildings and a fine fruit orchard; about half the tract is forest land. The location is said to be a good one for a physician. Wm. H. Parker, C.E.A.D., Commissioner's Office, Nov. 11, 1863 ----------- FIRST RATE PLANTATION FOR SALE Containing eight hundred and sixty acres of land, situated in Abbeville District, S.C. on waters of Little River. A first rate grain and cotton plantation, 150 acres of low lands and 130 acres of first quality wood land; a dwelling house and all necessary out buildings. Apply to John H. Wilson, Esq. at Abbeville courthouse, or James M. Martin on the premises or the undersigned at Tuskegee, Alabama. J.J. Martin -------- SALE OF HOUSE AND LOT IN ABBEVILLE VILLAGE By order of the Ordinary Court of Abbeville, I will sell by public outcry at the courthouse door, on Sale Day in December next, that house and lot of land containing one and three fourths acres more or less, being the real estate of the late Dewit Jones, dec'd. Apply to Robert Jones, S.A.D., Nov. 12, 1863 ------- AT HOSPITAL Captain Addison Clinkscales of Co. H and Lieut. John M. McDonald of Co. G, 19th S.C. Regiment, are now at St. Mary's Hospital at LaGrange, Georgia. They have been sent to the rear to improve their health. From exposure and hard duty they are considerably worn down. ------- LIEUT. COL. JULIUS PORCHER OF THE 10th S.C. Regiment Ere this the tidings of the death of this gallant and efficient officer has reached the ears of most of our readers. He fell while in the late engagement with the enemy near Chattanooga, Tennessee. His body is in the hands of the enemy. Col. Porcher was an officer who was much respected in military circles for his bearing as an officer and a gentleman. He was possesed of all that constituted the gentleman and christian and by his eveness of temper and amiable disposition, he had endeared himself to all who knew him. In point of education and intellect, he had but few equals. In his death, the Regiment and country has sustained a severe loss. ------- MARRIED, on Nov. 11, 1863 by Rev. George Allen, Wm. Allen Clements of Williamston, S.C. to Miss Barbara Clinkscales of Abbeville district. ------- IN MEMORIAM OF LIEUT. WM. M. ROGERS It is this life only we had hope how gallant, how unalloyed, which would be our grief now when the fatal missives of death are flying througout the land, cutting off our objects of our true, or our hope and of our love, and bidding us break off the bleeding tendrils of affection, which we had so fondly nourished, and cast them into the gloomy vortex of oblivion. "Oh, it is a fearful thing to love what Death may touch!" But we are assured that those once united to us in the bonds of Christian faith are not "dead, but gone before"; not rooted up but transplanted by our Heavenly Father's hand from scenes of strife and bitterness to a happier and more congenial soil. At an early period of this country's need, the subject of this notice assisted in raising a volunteer company for active service and through all the tedious watchings and dreadful conflicts of the subsequent campaigns in Virginia and Maryland, he bore his part as becometh a patriot and christian. Of his merits of an officer, we do not pretend to speak; but his long experience in the military training of his native district, his energy of character and his inherent patriotism, show how much his country has lost in his death. Lieut. Rogers was of French Protestant origin, being the eldest son of Capt. Paul Rogers, one of the last of the Huguenots of Abbeville district. From childhood to mature years he was distinguished for his obliging and amiable deportment and for the conscientious discharge of every duty. His heightened principles and generous bearing entitled him to unqualified respect as a friend and private citizen. Most unassuming by nature, he seldom manifested his feelings to the world; and the influence he exerted as a christian was mainly the powerful one of example. A single sobriety and purity of conduct had early set him as a sign for others, and for five year previous to his premature death, he had represented the people as Ruling Elder in the Church of his Father's. But it was only in the dear domestic circle, that throne whence man dispenses the blessings of a well ordered life, that his virtues could be properly estimated. There, an affectionate wife, two infant daughters and a fond Uncle miss him as only those can be missed who have so nobly fulfilled all the higher claims of humanity. It was at Chickamauga to which place his regiment had been lately ordered, that our dear friend received his death wound. From the field hospital he was removed to Rome, Ga. and after some weeks of severe suffering, he calmly resigned his soul into the hands of his Redeemer on Sabbath morning, October 18. His last hours were soothed by the consolation of religion and by the presence of some of the dear members of his family. And his remains are privileged to rest near his aged father in the cemetery of that church in which he had been nurtured. -------- NEWSPAPER Issue of Friday, DECEMBER 18, 1863 TRIBUTE TO R.L. DRENNON Mr. Editor, Allow me through the columns of your valuable journal to pay a short tribute to a loved friend, Serg't R.L. Drennon. He is gone. He died a martyr to this country in a glorious cause. We only enjoyed his acquaintance for a short time, but found him a true and tried friend. He possessed an amiable and social temperament and was endeared to all who knew him. He was the family jewel. Mr. Drennon volunteered in Company A, Col Jno. Moore's Regiment, while stationed in Virginia. He was engaged in many important battles while in Virginia and came out unscathed. After which his Regiment was transferred to the West to reinforce Gen's Bragg and there in a skirmish shortly after the Battle of Chickamauga, he received the fatal wound. He died instantly. May he rest from this world of war and pestilence in his Savior's bosom. -------- SOUTH CAROLINA CASUALTIES AT MISSIONARY RIDGE Headquarters 10th and 19th S.C.V. Near Dalton, Ga. Dec. 5, 1863 Enclosed is a list of casualities during the late engagements before Chattanooga: Field and Staff Killed Lieut. Col. Julius T. Porcher, 10th S.C.V. Prisoner: Ass't Surg. J.H. Gibbs, 19th S.C.V. Companies A and G 10th S.C.V. Capt. C.C. White, wounded Corp'l T.J. Anderson, wounded E.J. Gause, wounded W.W. Monce, wounded Prisoners S.C. Davis J.L. Thomas J.J. Richardson A.B. Walker H. Cartwright Second Company, C and D, 10th S.C.V. Wounded Serg't F.B. Wiggins W. Deggetise A.M. Daniels Prisoners Serg't. J.B. Williamson S.J. Loyd S. Bird Pvt. W. Bradley G.W. Wright W.D. Huett J. Shelly L.D. Cox H.M. Thompkins J. Alford Third Company, H and I, 10th S.C.V. Wounded Serg't J.J. McKnight J.A. Young; wounded severely Corpl. D. Preston G.H. Myers L.E. Burkett D. Hanford Prisoners Lieut. G.G. Finkles Serg't. R. Turbeville W.E. Finkles (leg broken) S.C. Pewell E. Cain J.. Brown M.M. Braveboy J.J. Huggins H. Matthews J. McKnight P. McGee J.W. Lee J.L. Lee E.C. Osborn Fourth Company, K and M, 10th S.C.V. Wounded Capt. J.S. Palmer Serg't. A.L. Welsh E. Todd (severe) J.K. Hughes W.C. Mitchum Prisoners O. Moore T.A. Wallace J.N. Williams W.H. Bryant W.D. Ellis W. Herring C. Hammontree S.S. Jones C.W. Cobb Fifth Company, E and I, 10th S.C.V. Killed James M. Johnson Wounded J.S. Brockington Samuel Collins C.B. Conde Robert Giles James Snipes Prisoners Serg't A. Smith Corpl. Thos. Johnson D.N. McCall (wounded) H.W. Blakely J.A. Boatright W. Braswell R. Collins M.A. Ethridge A.J. Giles N.M. Gregg John Huggins N. Flowers Thos. Hataway S.A. Howard Joseph Murphy Sixth Company, B and F, 10th S.C.V. Killed Corpl. E. Russ Wounded Lieut. J. Bostick, dangerously wounded Sgt. H. Inman, severely wounded M.L. Hoggand Prisoners: Lieut. J.A. Duggan Corpl. A.B. Foxworth S.F. Parker (badly wounded) Corpl. J.N. Bostick W.J. Jordan J. Brown F.K. Bellamy G.W. Currie S.C. Cox J.E. Coleman W.P. Fowler H. Gunter T.H. Johnson J.S. Johnson C.J. Jones T.S. Lee N. Mitchum J.R. Marlow L.T. Sessions J. Todd Seventh Company, D and G, 10th S.C.V. Prisoners S.O. Berry J. Rushten W.F. Warkins S.T. McAdams W.P. Saxon Eighth Company, H, I and E, 19th S.C.V. Killed James Shirley Wounded Serg't A.B. Kennedy, wounded severely W.T. Young Prisoners J. Thornton (wounded) G.W. Brownlee E. Brown J.T. Brown B.J. Brown J. Brown J.F. Crawford J.J. McElveen J.O. Mathis B.N. Mitchell R.J. Trimuel W.T. Wainright ----------- NOTICE All persons having demands again the estate of Washington S. Cochran, dec'd, must present them to me property attested on or before the fifteenth day of January next, as I will pay none after that date. S.W. Cochran, Adm'r. Dec. 14, 1863 -------- STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, Abbeville District Court of Ordinary Whereas, Sam'l J. and Mary J. Callahan have applied for Letters of Administration of all the goods, chattels, rights and credits of Sheard Callahan, late of the district aforesaid, dec'd. This is therefore to cite all the kindred and creditors of said deceased to appear at the next Ordinary's Court to be held at Abbeville court house on the 1st day of January next, to show cause, if any, why said administration sould not be granted. This 18th day of December, 1863. William Hill, O.A.D. ------- STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, Abbeville District Court of Ordinary Whereas, James Gambrell has applied for Letters of Administration of all the goods, chattels, rights and credits of James C. Gambrell, late of the district aforesaid, dec'd. This is therefore to cite all the kindred and creditors of said deceased to appear at the next Ordinary's Court to be held at Abbeville court house on the 28th day of December next, to show cause, if any, why said administration sould not be granted. This 14th day of December, 1863. William Hill, O.A.D. -------