[473] Seven Pines, took fever and died in the hospital; George W. was orderly sergeant of Company E, Second South Carolina rifles, was wounded at Second Manassas, and killed in the night fight of Will's Valley. David Franklin was reared on his father's farm in Pickens county, and this he has considered his home all his life. In 1859 he went to Florida and was there when the war began. In April, 1861, he enlisted as a private in Company A, Second Florida infantry, was promoted to orderly-sergeant and then to lieutenant, and served until the battle of the Wilderness, where he lost his left arm. He participated in the battles of Yorktown, Williamsburg, Seven Pines, Gaines' Mill, Frayser's Farm, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, and the Wilderness. A severe wound received at Frayser's Farm caused his absence from the army for about three months. Two incidents of his military career are worth mentioning. The day before the battle of Seven Pines, while on a reconnoitering trip, he shot a Federal soldier at a distance of 600 yards. Soon after the battle of Fredericksburg he had a battle of his own with a Federal sharpshooter at the distance of 300 yards. The rifle that he used on this occasion would not shoot true, but the Yankee was putting in some good shots; so he had to retreat to cover. At the Wilderness, where he received the shot that disabled him for further service, as lieutenant he led his company, the captain having been captured at Gettysburg and the first lieutenant killed at Culpeper. He received two wounds in the Wilderness, the first through the hip, and the second a few moments later in the left arm, which being amputated near the shoulder ended his military career. Upon recovery, being no longer fit for service in the field, he was assigned to enrolling duty in Florida. He was, however, cut off from fulfilling this last duty by the advance of Sherman from Savannah and the close of the war soon after. After the return of peace he attended school, became a teacher, and in 1868 was made school commissioner of Pickens county, to which position he was twice re-elected. In 1874 he was elected to the State legislature, re-elected in 1876, and in 1878 was elected to the State senate. He has held other offices in the State and in 1885 was appointed by President Cleveland collector of internal revenue for the district of South Carolina. He founded the Pickens Sentinel in 1877 and
