William F. Nance, of Newberry, was appointed Captain and Assistant Adjutant General, and in September, 1861, was assigned to duty upon General Bonham’s staff, where he remained until the General’s resignation.  In 1864 Nance was on duty in Charleston, where he remained on staff duty until the end.

S. McGowan and W.D.  Simpson returned to South Carolina after the battle of Manassas, and assisted in raising the Fourteenth South Carolina Regiment of Volunteers, of which the former was elected Lieutenant Colonel and the latter Major.  Colonel McGowan became Colonel of the regiment, and afterwards Brigadier of one of the most famous brigades (McGowan’s) in the Confederate Army.  Colonel Simpson served in the Confederate Congress after his retirement from the army.

All the others of the staff filled prominent positions, either as commanding or staff officers, or serving in the departments in Richmond.  I have no data at hand to give sketches of their individual services.

Fairfax Court House was the extreme limit at which the infantry was posted on that side of the Blue Ridge.  Cavalry was still in advance, and under the leadership of the indefatigable Stuart scouting the whole front between the Confederate and Federal armies.  The Third South Carolina was encamped about a mile north of the little old fashioned hamlet, the county seat of the county of that name.  In this section of the State lived the ancestors of most of the illustrious families of Virginia, Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, and Lee.  It is a rather picturesque country; not so beautiful and productive, however, as the Shenandoah and Luray Valleys.  The Seventh, Eighth, and Second Regiments were encamped several miles distant, but all in the hearing of one another’s drums.  Our main duties outside of our regular drills consisted in picketing the highways and blockading all roads by felling the timber across for more than a hundred yards on either side of the roads.  Large details armed with axes were sent out to blockade the thoroughfares leading to Washington and points across the Potomac.  For miles out, in all directions, wherever the road led through wooded lands, large trees, chestnut, hickory, oak, and pine, were cut pell mell, creating a perfect abattis across the road—­so much so as to cause our troops in their verdant ignorance to think it almost an impossibility for such obstructions to be cleared away in many days; whereas, as a fact, the pioneer corps of the Federal Army cleared it away as fast as the army marched, not causing as much as one hour’s halt.  Every morning at nine o’clock one company from a regiment would go out about two miles in the direction of Washington Falls church or Annandale to do picket duty, and remain until nine o’clock next day, when it would be relieved by another company.  The “Black Horse Cavalry,” an old organization of Virginia, said to have remained intact since the Revolution, did vidette duty still beyond the infantry.  Their