r of participating in the capture of Fort Sumter and
the battles of Blackburn's Ford, First Manassas, Williamsburg, Savage
Station, Malvern Hill, Sharpsburg, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville,
Gettysburg, Chattanooga, Knoxville, Wilderness, Spottsylvania Court
House, Second Cold Harbor, the defense of Petersburg until the winter
of 1864-1865, and the campaign in the Carolinas, including the battles
of Averysboro and Bentonville.

During the desperate struggle at Second Cold Harbor, in June, 1864,
with the Second Regiment alone, he recaptured our breastworks on
Kershaw's right and Hoke's left, from which two of our brigades had
been driven. The enemy driven out consisted of the Forty-eighth and
One hundred and Twelfth New York, each numbering one thousand men,
while the Second numbered only one hundred and twenty-six men
all told. So rapid was the assault that the color bearer of the
Forty-eighth New York, with his colors, was captured and sent to
General Kershaw, who was at his proper position some distance in rear
of his division.

During his service Colonel Wallace was twice wounded--in the foot,
at Charlestown, W. Va., and in the arm, at Gettysburg. After the
conclusion of hostilities he returned to his home and the care of
his plantation. Previous to the war he had an honorable career in
the Legislature, and immediately afterwards he was a member of the
Convention of 1865 and of the Legislature next following, and was
elected to the State Senate for four years, in 1881. From 1891 to 1894
he was engaged in the correction of the indexes of the records of the
Secretary of State's office, and in 1894 was appointed postmaster of
Columbia by President Cleveland.

By his marriage, in 1848, to Victoria C., daughter of Dr. John
McLemore, of Florida, Colonel Wallace has five children living,
Andrew, William, Bruce, Edward Barton, and Margaret. After the death
of his first wife he married, in 1876, Mrs. Fannie C. Mobley, nee
Means.

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CAPTAIN JOHN HAMPDEN BROOKS.

John Hampden Brooks was Captain of Company G, Seventh South Carolina
Regiment, from its entry into State service to the end of its twelve
months' enlistment. At the reorganization of the regiment he declined
re-election, and served for a short time as Aid-de-Camp on General
Kershaw's staff. At this time, upon recommendation of Generals Kershaw
and Jos. E. Johnston, he raised another company of Partisan Rangers,
and wa