. Singletary having been elected as commander. On Governor Pickens'
first call for troops the company offered its services and was
assigned to the Eighth South Carolina Regiment, Colonel E.B.C. Cash
commanding. The company was ordered to Charleston on fall of Fort
Sumter, where it remained until the last of May, when it was ordered
to Florence, S.C., where, about the 1st of June, it was mustered into
Confederate service by General Geo. Evans, and immediately ordered to
Virginia to form a part of Bonham's Brigade.

Captain McIntyre was with the regiment at the first battle of Manassas
or Bull Run, and with the exception of two short leaves of absence
from sickness and from wounds, was with the regiment in nearly all
of its campaigns and important skirmishes and battles, Williamsburg,
battles around Richmond, Va., Maryland Heights, Sharpsburg,
Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Wilderness, Spottsylvania Court
House, and all of the battles against Grant up to the investment of
Petersburg, Va. He was with the regiment and Longstreet's Corps in the
campaign in Tennessee.

In the Tennessee campaign he commanded the Eighth Regiment at the
battle of Ream's Station, and when the Second, Eighth, and Third
Battalion, under the command of the gallant Colonel Gaillard, of the
Second, made a daring and successful attack (at night) on the picket
line of the enemy, the Eighth was on the right and first to dislodge
the enemy and occupy the pits.

Captain McIntyre was twice wounded--first, in the chest at the battle
of Fredericksburg, Va., and second time, severely in the thigh at Deep
Bottom, Va.

* * * * *

COLONEL WILLIAM DRAYTON RUTHERFORD.

When Colonel William Drayton Rutherford fell in battle at Strasburg,
Virginia, on the 13th of October, 1864, he was but a little more than
twenty-seven years of age, having been born in Newberry, S.C., on the
23rd day of September, 1837.

The life thus destroyed was brimful of hope, for he was gifted with
a rare intelligence, and possessed of an affectionate nature, with
a deep sympathy for his fellow men and a patriotism which could only
terminate with his own life. His father, Dr. Thomas B. Rutherford, was
a grandson of Colonel Robert Rutherford, of Revolutionary fame, and
his mother, Mrs. Laura Adams Rutherford, was a direct descendant of
the Adams family of patriots who fought for their country in the State
of Massachusetts.

The boyhood of Colonel R