In the Tennessee campaign he commanded the Eighth Regiment at the battle of Ream’s Station, and when the Second, Eighth, and Third Battalion, under the command of the gallant Colonel Gaillard, of the Second, made a daring and successful attack (at night) on the picket line of the enemy, the Eighth was on the right and first to dislodge the enemy and occupy the pits.

Captain McIntyre was twice wounded—­first, in the chest at the battle of Fredericksburg, Va., and second time, severely in the thigh at Deep Bottom, Va.

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COLONEL WILLIAM DRAYTON RUTHERFORD.

When Colonel William Drayton Rutherford fell in battle at Strasburg, Virginia, on the 13th of October, 1864, he was but a little more than twenty-seven years of age, having been born in Newberry, S.C., on the 23rd day of September, 1837.

The life thus destroyed was brimful of hope, for he was gifted with a rare intelligence, and possessed of an affectionate nature, with a deep sympathy for his fellow men and a patriotism which could only terminate with his own life.  His father, Dr. Thomas B. Rutherford, was a grandson of Colonel Robert Rutherford, of Revolutionary fame, and his mother, Mrs. Laura Adams Rutherford, was a direct descendant of the Adams family of patriots who fought for their country in the State of Massachusetts.

The boyhood of Colonel Rutherford was spent on the plantation of his father, in Newberry County.  Here was laid the foundation of his splendid physical nature, and his mind as well.  While not beyond the height of five feet and ten inches, and with not an ounce of spare flesh, physically he was all bone and muscle, and was the embodiment of manly beauty.  His early training was secured in the Male Academies of Greenville and Newberry.  At the age of sixteen years he entered the Citadel Academy in Charleston, S.C.  It was at this school he first exhibited the remarkable power arising from his ability to concentrate every faculty of his mind to the accomplishment of a single purpose, for, by reason of his fondness for out door sports and reading, he had fallen in stand amongst the lowest members of a large class, but, conceiving that some persons thought he could do no better, by a determined effort to master all the branches of study in an incredible space of time he was placed among the first ten members of his class.  Military discipline was too restrictive for him, hence he left the Citadel Academy and entered the Sophomore Class of the South Carolina College at Columbia, S.C.  In a few months after entering this college he was advanced from the Sophomore Class to that of the Junior.  However, he never took his degree, for owing to a so-called college rebellion, he left college.  Afterwards he regretted his step.  Not content with the advantages be had already enjoyed, he went to Germany to complete his education, but the war between the States caused him to return to America.  He espoused with heart and soul the cause of his native State.  Before going to Germany he had been admitted to the practice of the law.  Chief Justice John Belton O’Neall expressed himself as delighted with young Rutherford’s examination for the bar, and predicted for him a brilliant career as a lawyer.