[796] Anna L., Mary L., Olin B., James B., Nannie F., Wesley C. and Chesley B.
James W. Poore
James W. Poore was born in Anderson county, S. C., February 15, 1844, the son of Holland and Mary (Raborn) Poore, both natives of South Carolina. James was reared in his native county on a farm to the age of fifteen, and then went to Balton as a clerk in a store, where he was in business until the beginning of the war. On January 2, 1862, he enlisted as a private in Company G, Second South Carolina rifles, and was soon made a noncommissioned officer and served as such in the battles of Mechanicsville, Gaines' Mill, Frayser's Farm, Malvern Hill, and Second Manassas. In this last battle he was wounded, and after spending two months in a hospital was discharged on account of sickness, the result of exposure and his wound. It was thought then that he had consumption, but in the course of a few months, after returning home, his health became fully restored, and in the spring of 1863 he re-enlisted in the service as a private in Company E, Sixth South Carolina cavalry. He served with this to the end of the war as private, acting as orderly and courier for Major Ferguson, and finally as color-bearer of the regiment, which position he held when the war closed. As a member of the Sixth South Carolina cavalry he participated in several skirmishes on the South Carolina coast; also in the battles at Trevilian Station, Bottom's Bridge, Lee's Mill, Falls Church, and Gravelly Run, being again wounded in the last-named battle, where he was shot through the left leg. Returning home on furlough, he recovered from his wound and rejoined his command near Burgess' Mill, a few days after the battle at that place. In the closing scenes of the war his brigade was dispatched to Columbia to reinforce that place, and arrived there a few days in advance of Sherman's army. Mr. Poore was sent home from Columbia to secure some better horses and while on that errand Columbia was captured and burned by Sherman. When he rejoined his command it was at Raleigh, N. C. He was not present at the surrender and was never paroled. While in the infantry he served under Brigadier-Generals Evans, Ripley, Anderson and Jenkins, and under Major-Generals Hood and Longstreet, and while in the cavalry service under Brigadier-Generals
