[907] was given. As senior captain he was in command of the regiment for several months in the winter of 1864-65. He did his duty gallantly and ably in the engagements at Hilton Head, Pocotaligo, James island, Pinckney island, the bombardment of Fort Sumter in 1863, at Fort Johnson, Olustee and Baldwin, Fla., and then going with his regiment was distinguished in the severe fighting at Port Walthall Junction, Swift Creek, Drewry's bluff, the nineteen days fight at Bermuda Hundred, Clay's farm, Gaines' mill, Cold Harbor, Weldon railroad, Fort Harrison, Darbytown road, Charleston City road, receiving a wound in the left knee at Cold Harbor from which he has never fully recovered, another wound in the same leg at Fort Harrison, and a third in the side at Bermuda Hundred. Returning south with his command he was in engagements of Bragg's command at Fort Fisher, Fort Anderson and Old Town Creek, in command of his regiment, and was captured in the last-named battle in February, 1865. Subsequently he was confined in the Old Capitol prison and at Fort Delaware until July, 1865. Since the war he has been engaged in business as a hardware merchant at Charleston, and is president of the Enterprise bank of that city.
Captain John Westfield, born in Greenville county in 1827, died in 873, rendered gallant and efficient service as an officer of the Second South Carolina cavalry. He began his military career early in 861 as first lieutenant of Company F, Second cavalry, and in February, 1862, was promoted to captain, the rank in which he served during the remainder of the war. Previous to the war Captain Westfield, then comfortably settled as a planter, was married to Emma Stokes, who survived until 1882. They had a family of seven children, of whom but two are now living, Mary, wife of M. A. Morgan, of Greenville, and John O. Westfield. The latter was born July 29, 1869, at Greenville, was educated at the Furman university and the university of the South at Sewanee, Tenn., and in 1889 was graduated in law at the South Carolina college. Being admitted to the bar in 1890 he went to the Pacific coast for the improvement of his health and practiced his profession one year at Los Angeles. Then returning to Greenville he practiced for a year or more, before he abandoned the profession and
