[742] Hampton legion, with rank of captain. In the early part of 1864 he was again promoted, to brigade quartermaster, with the rank of major, and assigned to the brigade of Gen. Martin Gary. During Longstreet's campaign in east Tennessee he was made chief quartermaster of Hood's division, and after the death of Gen. Micah Jenkins returned to General Gary and surrendered at Appomattox, where he was assigned to surrender all the property of the cavalry of the army of Northern Virginia. He participated in the battles of First Manassas, Williamsburg, Seven Pines, Seven Days battles, Second Manassas, and Fredericksburg. After the close of the war he returned to South Carolina and went into the lumber business in the lower part of the State and has been so engaged since. In 1892 he was elected to the legislature from Hampton county, and in 1894 elected to the State senate. Again in 1898 he was elected to the legislature. He is the owner of twenty-five miles of railway from Branchville to Mauldenton. In 1860 he married Miss Leonora, daughter of Maj. George W. and Elizabeth Conners, of Anderson county, and to this union six children have been born, five of whom are living: Jacob, engaged in the lumber business; Lilly, wife of J. C. Lightsey, of Hampton; Washington C., in business with his father; Leonora, wife of Rev. L. M. Roper, pastor of the First Baptist church at Canton, O.; and Helen.
William L. Mauldin, in youth a private soldier of the Confederacy, and since then lieutenant-governor of South Carolina, was born at Greenville, his present residence, June 13, 1845. His father was Samuel Mauldin, a prominent merchant of Greenville, son of Joab Mauldin, a native of Abbeville, who became a wealthy planter and merchant of Pickens county; his mother was Caroline, sister of Admiral John F. B. McHardy, of the English navy, and daughter of Robert McHardy, of St. Augustine, Fla. Among his ancestors were soldiers of the Revolution. In November, 1861, young Mauldin left his studies at the Furman university to enlist as a sergeant in Company A, Sixteenth South Carolina regiment, infantry, and after a year's service with this command he re-enlisted in Company K, Second cavalry. With the gallant record of the latter command he was associated
