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[530] the battles of Knoxville and Bean's Station. He was then detached for service in a small-pox hospital, and while performing that duty was taken prisoner. During the following fourteen months and until the close of the war he was detained at Rock Island, Ill. He is now a valued member of R. C. Pulliam camp, U. C. V., and is highly regarded by his fellow veterans as a good soldier, and by his fellow citizens as an enterprising and worthy man. By his marriage, in 1867, to Hester Ann Hamilton, he has seven children living: Robert H., Anna M., Andrew S., Abner O., Leander, Louise T. and Richard Lewis.


Robert Barnwell Cuthbert

Robert Barnwell Cuthbert, of Summerville, S. C., was born at Charleston, S. C., in 1849. He was reared and educated in Charleston and Beaufort, S. C. In February, 1865, he entered the Confederate service in the Beaufort artillery, with which he served as a private until surrendered with his company at Greensboro, N. C. After the close of the war he joined his family at Flat Rock, N. C., where they had gone as refugees, and soon after removed to the French Broad, where he took up the occupation of farming. In 1871 he went to Charleston and engaged in the phosphate business on the Ashley river, and remained in that business until February, 1898. He served in the council of Summerville, S. C., for nearly nine years.


Owen Daly

Owen Daly, of Columbia, a veteran of the Second regiment, was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1842, and was brought to America, by his parents, at the age of seven years. His childhood was spent in the North, mainly at New York and Newark, until in 1858 he came to Charleston, and soon made his home at Columbia. He entered the Confederate service in April, 1861, as a private in Company C, Second South Carolina regiment, and he continued on duty as a private until the close of the war. Among the battles in which he participated were: Seven Pines, the Seven Days battles on the Chickahominy, South Mountain, Sharpsburg, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Brandy Station, Upperville, Gettysburg, the Wilderness, Spottsylvania Court House, John's Island, S. C., Fort Fisher, N. C., and Goldsboro, N. C., a list, which, in a broken way, tells a story of gallant and self-sacrificing service amid privation and suffering for the cause of the State which was his by adoption. Since the

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