Description:Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Tyler Thigpen, John Bratton, Mike Anderson, William Porcher Dubose, Webster Anderson, Gordon Glisson, D. Wyatt Aiken, John Hugh Means, James Milling. Excerpt: David Wyatt Aiken David Wyatt Aiken (March 17, 1828 April 6, 1887) was a Confederate army officer during the American Civil War and a postbellum five-term United States Congressman from South Carolina . Biography Aiken was born in Winnsboro, South Carolina, and received his early education under private tutors. He attended the Mount Zion Institute in Winnsboro and graduated from South Carolina College in Columbia in 1849. He taught college for two years before marrying Mattie Gaillard in 1852 and engaging in agricultural pursuits, owning a plantation and travelling extensively in Europe and throughout the United States. He became the editor of the Winnsboro News and Herald, and was married a second time to Miss Smith of Abbeville, where Aiken settled and continued to farm. With South Carolina's secession and the advent of the Civil War, Aiken enlisted in the Confederate Army as a private in the 7th South Carolina Infantry. He was later appointed adjutant of the regiment and in 1862 was elected its colonel . He led it in the Peninsula and Northern Virginia Campaigns . He was severely wounded by a shot through his lungs at the Battle of Antietam in September 1862. After his lengthy recovery, he commanded his regiment in the Gettysburg Campaign in Joseph B. Kershaw 's brigade, seeing action near the Peach Orchard in the Battle of Gettysburg . However, lingering effects of his wound soon forced Aiken to administrative duty in Macon, Georgia for a year, before he resigned from the Confederate army in mid-1864 and returned home. He was a member of the State house of representatives from 1864 66 and served as secretary and t...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with People from Winnsboro, South Carolina: Tyler Thigpen, John Bratton, Mike Anderson, William Porcher Dubose, Webster Anderson, Gordon Glisson. To get started finding People from Winnsboro, South Carolina: Tyler Thigpen, John Bratton, Mike Anderson, William Porcher Dubose, Webster Anderson, Gordon Glisson, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
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People from Winnsboro, South Carolina: Tyler Thigpen, John Bratton, Mike Anderson, William Porcher Dubose, Webster Anderson, Gordon Glisson
Description: Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Tyler Thigpen, John Bratton, Mike Anderson, William Porcher Dubose, Webster Anderson, Gordon Glisson, D. Wyatt Aiken, John Hugh Means, James Milling. Excerpt: David Wyatt Aiken David Wyatt Aiken (March 17, 1828 April 6, 1887) was a Confederate army officer during the American Civil War and a postbellum five-term United States Congressman from South Carolina . Biography Aiken was born in Winnsboro, South Carolina, and received his early education under private tutors. He attended the Mount Zion Institute in Winnsboro and graduated from South Carolina College in Columbia in 1849. He taught college for two years before marrying Mattie Gaillard in 1852 and engaging in agricultural pursuits, owning a plantation and travelling extensively in Europe and throughout the United States. He became the editor of the Winnsboro News and Herald, and was married a second time to Miss Smith of Abbeville, where Aiken settled and continued to farm. With South Carolina's secession and the advent of the Civil War, Aiken enlisted in the Confederate Army as a private in the 7th South Carolina Infantry. He was later appointed adjutant of the regiment and in 1862 was elected its colonel . He led it in the Peninsula and Northern Virginia Campaigns . He was severely wounded by a shot through his lungs at the Battle of Antietam in September 1862. After his lengthy recovery, he commanded his regiment in the Gettysburg Campaign in Joseph B. Kershaw 's brigade, seeing action near the Peach Orchard in the Battle of Gettysburg . However, lingering effects of his wound soon forced Aiken to administrative duty in Macon, Georgia for a year, before he resigned from the Confederate army in mid-1864 and returned home. He was a member of the State house of representatives from 1864 66 and served as secretary and t...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with People from Winnsboro, South Carolina: Tyler Thigpen, John Bratton, Mike Anderson, William Porcher Dubose, Webster Anderson, Gordon Glisson. To get started finding People from Winnsboro, South Carolina: Tyler Thigpen, John Bratton, Mike Anderson, William Porcher Dubose, Webster Anderson, Gordon Glisson, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.