[453] reared to the age of eighteen in Beaufort county. In January, 1860, he entered the South Carolina military academy and was a student there until 1862, when he gave up his studies to enter the service of his country. Joining the Beaufort volunteer artillery, to which his father and brother already belonged, he served in it as a private until the close of the war, surrendering under General Johnston, April 26, 1865. His services were entirely on the coast of South Carolina until Sherman's northward movement compelled the Confederates to evacuate Charleston and retreat into North Carolina. He was in a number of skirmishes and in the battles of Pocotaligo and Honey Hill. For a few years after the war he resided in Columbia, S. C., and Savannah, Ga. In 1873 he removed to Anderson county, S. C., and located on a farm near Anderson, where he still resides. He is a member of Stephen D. Lee camp, U. C. V. He was married December 20, 1872, to Miss Mary Alice Prevost, daughter of Joseph Prevost, and they have four children, three sons and one daughter: Mary A., now Mrs. W. A. Watson, T. Joe, Theo Ernest and Eugene P.
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[453] reared to the age of eighteen in Beaufort county. In January, 1860, he entered the South Carolina military academy and was a student there until 1862, when he gave up his studies to enter the service of his country. Joining the Beaufort volunteer artillery, to which his father and brother already belonged, he served in it as a private until the close of the war, surrendering under General Johnston, April 26, 1865. His services were entirely on the coast of South Carolina until Sherman's northward movement compelled the Confederates to evacuate Charleston and retreat into North Carolina. He was in a number of skirmishes and in the battles of Pocotaligo and Honey Hill. For a few years after the war he resided in Columbia, S. C., and Savannah, Ga. In 1873 he removed to Anderson county, S. C., and located on a farm near Anderson, where he still resides. He is a member of Stephen D. Lee camp, U. C. V. He was married December 20, 1872, to Miss Mary Alice Prevost, daughter of Joseph Prevost, and they have four children, three sons and one daughter: Mary A., now Mrs. W. A. Watson, T. Joe, Theo Ernest and Eugene P.
Atlanta, Ga. 1899.
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