[722] After the fall of Fort Sumter he organized and was elected captain of the Irish volunteers, which entered the Confederate service June 27, 1861, and being ordered to Virginia, became Company K of the reorganized First regiment, South Carolina volunteers, Col. Maxcy Gregg commanding. He was promoted major December 14th, and lieutenant-colonel June 27, 1862. Among the historic engagements in which he participated were: Fort Sumter, Seven Pines, Cold Harbor, Cedar Mountain, Second Manassas, Snicker's Gap, and Fredericksburg. On the last day of the fighting at Second Manassas he received a severe wound in the head, which caused his disability until October 30, 1862. At Fredericksburg, in January following the battle, he was injured in camp by a falling tree, and incapacitated for further duty on the field. In March, 1864, he was transferred to command of the camp of instruction at Madison, Fla., where he surrendered in May, 1865. Since the war he has been engaged in the practice of law at Charleston. Being elected to the legislature in 1880 he served for eight or ten years with much distinction. He was the originator and the second president of the Survivors' association, of Charleston, and was the author of the act of the legislature establishing the bureau for gathering the Confederate records of South Carolina. He was president of a Democratic club in 1876, and of the Sumter Guards rifle club; was one of the counsel in the subsequent political trials, and in 1882 was appointed major-general of militia. He is the author of numerous essays, addresses, etc., on legal, political and historical subjects, and is prominent in the legal profession.
Charles E. McCulloch
Charles E. McCulloch, of Greenville, for about a quarter century identified with the interests of that city, is a native of Georgia, born in DeKalb county, February 5, 1843. He is the son of John McCulloch, a native of Edinburgh, Scotland, who became a planter in Georgia and married Mary Crowley, a native of that State. Mr. McCulloch enlisted, May 31, 1861, in the Seventh Georgia regiment of infantry, distinguished during the war as a part of Gen. George T. Anderson's brigade, Longstreet's corps. He served with his regiment throughout the war, fighting in many important battles, notable among which were First Manassas, Malvern Hill, Second Manassas,
