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Drayton's brigade, Fifteenth regiment, 415, James's battalion, 160 equals 575.* Of the 7,786 casualties in the army as above, 1,749 oc- curred in the South Carolina regiments as follows: Gregg's brigade lost 619, Jenkins, 404, Evans, 631, Hampton Legion, 74, and the Fif- teenth regiment 21, equals 1,749. South Carolina thus lost more than one-fourth, or two out of every seven of all her troops present, while the loss in the rest of the army was little more than one in every seven.
But the losses of South Carolina were not to be counted by num- bers only. Her best blood was poured out on that rocky bed at Manassas. In our brigade that distinguished citizen and soldier, Colonel J. Foster Marshall, and Lieutenant-Colonel D. A. Leadbetter, were killed. In Jenkins's brigade Colonel Thomas J. Glover, one of the most promising sons of the State, and Colonel Moore, of the Second Rifles, fell, doing their duty nobly. In Evans's brigade our loss in killed was still heavier. At the head of the Seventeenth regi- ment fell one who had been an honored governor of the State, whose advanced years did not warrant his service in the field, but whose devotion to the State revived the energy of his youth, and with Governor Means fell also his son, Major Robt S. Means. Colonel J. M. Gadberry, of the Eighteenth Regiment, and Lieutenant-Colonel T. C. Watkins, of the Twenty-third Regiment, also died upon the fatal, if glorious, field for our State.
Just in front of the deepest part of the railroad cut,- where the knoll is highest, a rough hewn stone monument tells where the brave Federal soldiers fell within a few feet of the coveted goal. The crumbling bank and the filling cut are fast effacing the last traces of the spot where her soldiers fought so desperately for the honor of South Carolina.
- Major H. E. Young, Acting Assistant-General Drayton's brigade, from
field returns, September u, 1862.
