History of the Fourth Regiment S. C. Volunteers - From the Commencement of the War Untill Lee's Surrender #244646

Dear Reader: The Fourth Regiment of South Carolina Volunteers was made up principally from Greenville, Anderson and Pickens (which then enbraced what is now Oconee) Counties.<br><br>The field officers were J. B. E. Sloan, Colonel; Charles S. Mattison, Lieutenant-Colonel, JamesVVhitner, Major. Samuel Wilkes was Adjutant, A. C. Cooley, Surgeon, Burnham. Assistant Surgeon, Henry Cauble, Commissary.<br><br>The Captians of Companies were Kilpatrick, Humphreys, Dean, Anderson, Pool, Hawthorne, Long, Hollingsworth, Griffin and Shanklin, with a full quota of Lieutenants and non-commissioned officers.<br><br>This Regiment was called out April 14th, 1861, and went to Columbia, S. C., from which place I wrote my first letter home, and from that time on I endeavored to give an account of our travels until the Regiment ceased to be even a battalion, in July, 1862. As the reader will see, I wrote a great many letters to my family during this period, which were all taken care of and which I have here copied from the originals, leaving nothing out, except a few things of a private nature. I have also used precisely the same language that I did in the letters, because I could use no better<br><br>In writing the letters at that time I stated nothing but facts in regard to our movements, or what I thought to be facts, and I can also say that I still think them facts.