Colonel E.T.  Stackhouse was born in Marion County, of this State, the 27th of March, 1824, and died in the City of Washington, D.C., June 14th, 1892.  He was educated in the country schools, having never enjoyed the advantages of a collegiate course.  He married Miss Anna Fore, who preceded him to the grave by only a few months.  Seven children was the result of this union.  In youth and early manhood Colonel Stackhouse was noted for his strict integrity and sterling qualities, his love of truth and right being his predominating trait.  As he grew in manhood he grew in moral worth—­the better known, the more beloved.

His chosen occupation was that of farming, and he was ever proud of the distinction of being called one of the “horny-handed sons of toil.”  In the neighborhood in which he was born and bred he was an exemplar of all that was progressive and enobling.

In April, 1861, Colonel Stackhouse was among the very first to answer the call of his country, and entered the service as Captain in the Eighth South Carolina Regiment.  By the casualties of war, he was promoted to Major, Lieutenant Colonel, and Colonel, and led the old Eighth, the regiment he loved so well, in some of the most sanguinary engagements of the war.  All that Colonel Stackhouse was in civil life he was that, and more if possible, in the life of a soldier.  In battle he was calm, collected, and brave; in camp or on the march he was sociable, moral—­a Christian gentleman.  As a tactician and disciplinarian, Colonel Stackhouse could not be called an exemplar soldier, as viewed in the light of the regular army; but as an officer of volunteers he had those elements in him to cause men to take on that same unflinching courage, indominable spirit, and bold daring that actuated him in danger and battle.  He had not that sternness of command nor niceties nor notion of superiority that made machines of men, but he had that peculiar faculty of endowing his soldiers with confidence and a willingness to follow where he led.

He represented his county for three terms in the State Legislature, and was President of the State Alliance.  He was among the first to advocate college agricultural training for the youth of the land, and was largely instrumental in the establishment of Clemson College, and became one of its first trustees.

He was elected, without opposition, to the Fifty-first Congress, and died while in the discharge of his duties at Washington.

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CHAPTER XXIV

In Front of Chattanooga.

Early on the morning of the 22d we were ordered forward towards Chattanooga, the right wing having gone the day before.  On nearing the city, we were shelled by batteries posted on the heights along the way and from the breastworks and forts around the city.  It was during one of the heavy engagements between our advanced skirmish lines and the rear guard of the enemy that one of the negro cooks, by some means, got lost between the lines, and as a heavy firing began, bullets flying by him in every direction, he rushed towards the rear, and raising his hands in an entreating position, cried out, “Stop, white folks, stop!  In the name of God Almighty, stop and argy!”