[869] of South Carolina, but declined to leave the army to accept it. He was detailed as a scout by Gen. M. W. Gary, under orders of General Lee, in 1864, and served in that capacity several months. Among the engagements in which he took part were Will's Valley, near Lookout Mountain, Campbell Station, Lenoir Station and Knoxville, Tenn., and Riddle's Shop, Darbytown Road, Deep Bottom, Nine Mile Road, Va., and the fighting on the retreat from Richmond to Appomattox. He was at the surrender but did not participate in it, as he escaped through the Federal lines and made his way to Graniteville, S. C., where he obtained a fresh horse and started on his way to join President Davis; but learning of his capture, he returned to his home at Graniteville. After his parole was obtained at Augusta, Ga., he returned to Charleston, S. C., and began his civil career. He is now vice-president and general manager of the Ashepoo fertilizer company. He served seven years as president of the Charleston cotton exchange, was one of the committee which had in charge the distribution of the earthquake relief fund in 1886, and is the successor of Hon. W. A. Courtenay as one of the trustees of the William Euston home. He is a member of the First Presbyterian church of Charleston.
Benjamin Hammet Teague, D. D. S., a prominent member of the United Confederate Veterans' association, was born in Aiken, S. C., October 20, 1846. He is of Revolutionary ancestry on both sides. His people settled in the upper and lower part of the State during colonial times and were from Ireland. The country, at the time of his birth, was at war with Mexico, so that in earliest childhood the tales of war and rumors of war fell upon his ears. His youth was spent in the city of Charleston, and his education was directed by such well-known and reputable teachers as B. R. Carroll, Esq., and Dr. Henry Bruns. When the guns at the entrance of Charleston harbor opened upon the Star of the West and Fort Sumter, thus commencing the drama of the Confederate war, he burned to volunteer, but parental authority consented only to his becoming a member of the then only boy company of volunteers in the State, the Pickens Rifles, made up of the older pupils of his school and other youths. This youthful command did camp and guard duty about the city of Charleston, but became rapidly decimated until
