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brigadier-general of cavalry the company, then known as
Hart's battery,
Captain Lee having been promoted, was transferred to
Pelham's battalion of Stuart's horse artillery.
High rolled the tide of battle through the years
And ever on its crest Hart's battery moved.
While women, bowed in grief, shed bitter tears
For many who by death their fealty proved
To State and Cause.
Still led the Guidon on!
Still Sherfesee upheld it in the fight—
While through the smoke its pure white crescent shone
And staunch Palmetto said: “ Right shall be Might!”
Color-Bearer Sherfesee was with his company in all its services, having been sick but one week in the four years and enjoying but three weeks furlough.
He carried the colors in more than one hundred and forty engagements, prominent among which are:
Freestone Point,
Yorktown,
Williamsburg,
White House,
Mechanicsville, Goulding Farm, Frayser's Farm, Savage Station,
Malvern Hill,
Second Manassas,
Stuart's famous
Pennsylvania raid of 1862, Boonsboro Gap,
Sharpsburg,
Fredericksburg,
Chancellorsville, First and Second
Brandy Station,
Gettysburg,
Williamsport,
Yellow Tavern, Trevilian Station,
Petersburg, Reams' Station,
Stony Creek, Burgess' Mill, and
Bentonville, N. C., and still he has these historic colors in his possession.
He was surrendered with
Johnston's army in May, 1865, and then returned to
Charleston and went into the insurance business, in which he was very successful.
In 1877 he removed to
Transylvania county,
N. C., where he engaged in farming; in 1888 returning to
South Carolina, he located at
Rock Hill, where he organized the
Rock Hill machine works.
In 1895 he re-entered the insurance business and two years later he again made his home in
Charleston, where he now resides.
In 1876 he was a member of the State convention which started what was then called ‘the straight-out movement,’ that resulted in the nomination and election of his old general,
Wade Hampton, as governor.
By his marriage in 1867 to his wife, Annie S., daughter of
Robert James Griffith, he has six children:
Moseley F., Louis,
Robert Augustus, William F.,
Charlotte Elizabeth, and
Annie Louise.
William T. Shumate, of
Greenville, a veteran of the Butler Guards in the war of the
Confederacy, was born
