[824] emigrating to America, located in Newberry county. Mr. Schumpert's mother, Harriet Abney, comes from good old Revolutionary stock, her grandfather and several uncles having served in that war on the colonial side. Mr. Schumpert was reared in Newberry county, on his father's plantation, and at the age of ten he was placed in the Newberry college, which he left at the age of fourteen, 1862, to enter the war. He joined Company E, Third South Carolina regiment, and served in it through the war, except when on detailed service as scout, as orderly of the regiment, and as courier for Gen. J. B. Kershaw. He participated in the battles of Second Manassas, Williamsburg, Seven Days fight, Sharpsburg, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Chickamauga, Knoxville, Wilderness, Spottsylvania Court House, Second Cold Harbor, Petersburg and Cedar Creek. He was wounded at Gettysburg, and on October 19, 1864, received a severe wound at Cedar Creek, his thigh bone being broken by a minie ball. Fainting from loss of blood he fell from his horse and was captured; but being unable to be moved he was left at a farm house and was subsequently taken within the Confederate lines. When the war closed he was in a hospital at Staunton, Va., not having yet recovered from his wound. Returning home he re-entered Newberry college, but soon afterward went to Europe and finished his education at the university of Copenhagen. He returned home and taking up the study of law was admitted to the bar in 1872 and at once entered upon the practice in Newberry. He has served two terms in the State legislature, eight years as solicitor of the Seventh judicial circuit, and in 1898 was a prominent candidate for governor of South Carolina. He is a member of James D. Nance camp and has served on the staffs of two different governors of South Carolina. During the political excitement of 1876 he was colonel of the militia of Newberry county, and took a conspicuous part in the stirring scenes at Columbia. He was married, January 5, 1876, to Miss Mamie E. Pool, daughter of J. P. Pool, and they have two children living, a son and daughter: Aumerle, who was a member of the First South Carolina regiment in the Spanish war, and Miss Thyra, a student at the college for women at Columbia.
