[896] died August 3, 1898), Louise and Alleen. The son, Charles McCullough, is in the railway mail service, running between Atlanta and Charlotte. Mr. Ward is a member of Camp Darlington, U. C. V., at Darlington.
John William Ward
John William Ward, of Charleston, a Confederate veteran and adjutant of Sumter camp, U. C. V., is descended from a patriotic line of American patriots. His father was John Ward, born at Charleston about 1801, died in 1859, who was a cadet rifleman in the Seminole war; his grandfather was James McCall Ward, also a native of Charleston, a lawyer of prominence, and a major in the war of 1812; and his great-grandfather was Joshua Ward, who was born at Charleston and was a soldier of the Revolution. On the maternal side his great-grandfather was John Clement, who was badly wounded as a soldier under Francis Marion; and his great-great-grandfather was Robert Johnson, the last of the proprietary governors of the province of South Carolina. Mr. Ward entered the State service December 27, 1860, being then eighteen years of age, as a private in the First regiment, South Carolina Rifles, and with this company occupied Castle Pinckney, and took part in the siege of Fort Sumter. In February, 1862, he enlisted as a private in Company D, Fifth South Carolina cavalry, and was identified with the gallant record of that command until the close of hostilities. After service on the coast, occasionally enlivened with skirmishes with gunboats and scouting expeditions, he went to Virginia in May, 1864, and took part in the cavalry fights at Chester Station, Drewry's bluff, Charles City, Hawe's shop, Cold Harbor, White house, Nance's shop, Ream's Station, Gravelly run, White Oak road, Vaughn road, Burgess' mill, and in 1865, in the Carolinas, was in daily skirmishing from February 14th to April 13th, including the battles of Fayetteville and Bentonville. Since the war he has been a respected citizen of Charleston.Lieutenant Charles E. Watson, a gallant South Carolina soldier of the Confederacy now residing at Greenville, was born in Abbeville county, February 5, 1842, son of Lee Roy Watson, a planter of that county, of Virginian and English descent. His mother, Statira Waller, was also of Virginian ancestry. Both his parents died when he was two years of age, and he was reared at the
