Carolina Volunteers. With his company he was
mustered into the Confederate service at Columbia in April,
1861, and was in command of the company at the first battle of
Manassas and in the Peninsula campaign in Virginia.

"On May 16th, 1862, upon the reorganization of the Third
Regiment, he was chosen its Colonel, a position which he
filled until his death. As Colonel, he commanded the regiment
in the various battles around Richmond, June and July, 1862,
Second Manassas, Maryland Heights, Sharpsburg, Fredericksburg
(where he was severely wounded), Gettysburg, Chickamauga,
Knoxville, and the Wilderness, where on the 6th of May,
1864, he was instantly killed. His body was brought home and
interred at Newberry with fitting honors. He was a brave,
brilliant young officer, possessing the confidence and high
regard of his command in an extraordinary degree, and had he
lived, would have risen to higher rank and honor. His valuable
services and splended qualities and achievements in battle
and in council were noted and appreciated, as evidenced by the
fact that at the time of his death a commission of Brigadier
General had been, decided upon as his just due for meritorious
conduct.

"At the age of seventeen he professed religion and united
with the Baptist Church at Newberry, and from that time to his
death was distinguished for his Christian consistency."

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LIEUTENANT COLONEL FRANKLIN GAILLARD.

Lieutenant Colonel Franklin Gaillard is not known to fame by his
military record alone, but was known and admired all over the State
as the writer of the fiery editorials in the "Carolinian," a paper
published in Columbia during the days just preceding Secession, and
noted for its ardent State Rights sentiment. These eloquent, forcible,
and fearless discussions of the questions of the day by young Gaillard
was a potent factor in shaping the course of public sentiment and
rousing the people to duty and action, from the Mountains to the Sea.
Through the columns of this paper, then the leading one in the State,
he paved the way and prepared the people for the great struggle soon
to take place, stimulating them to an enthusiasm almost boundless.

He was in after years as fearless and bold with the sword as he
had been with the pen. He was not the man to turn his back upon his
countrymen, whose warlik