Young Manxman George Gelling was orphaned at age 16 in 1856 and came to America, first New Orleans, then Charleston. He’s the first soldier I’ve come upon from the Isle of Man, so here’s their flag in his honor.

George, a Private in Company H of the Hampton Legion Infantry, was in action as a skirmisher on South Mountain, then wounded and captured at Sharpsburg in September 1862. He was elected a 2nd Lieutenant in the 27th South Carolina Infantry in February 1864, but on 16 June of that year was mortally wounded at Petersburg, VA and died the same day.

Sergeant Elliott Welch of the Hampton Legion Infantry was wounded at Sharpsburg in September 1862 and was First Lieutenant and Adjutant of the Legion at the surrender at Appomattox Court House in April 1865. After the war he was a successful fruit and produce wholesaler in Charleston. He married in 1871 and had four children, but only one survived infancy.

He may have been the last surviving Civil War veteran in South Carolina before he died at age 95 in 1938.

Here are Elliott, wife Laura, and son Emmons as attendeees at a commercial exhibition in 1901, from pages 87 and 88 of the South Carolina & West Indian Exposition Photo Passbook, online from the Lowcountry Digital Library.

Sergeant Samuel D Stewart survived wounds at Sharpsburg in 1862 and Dandridge, TN in 1864, and was among the handful of men of the Hampton Legion surrendered at Appomattox in 1865. He was one of 44 Stewarts and in-laws of his generations in the Confederate Army. He was a farmer in Pickens County, SC after the war.

This photograph is of the patriarchs of the Stewart family at their first reunion in 1907. He’s #3. The 100th such reunion was held in 2007 and they have continued annually since then in Fountain Inn, SC. The original photograph is from Henry Fulmer and was published in Caroline Smith Sherman and Dianne Gault Bailey’s Fountain Inn (2017).

Mary Barnett Poppenheim (1866-1936) was President General of the United Daughters of the Confederacy from 1917 to 1919. Here she is on a page 282 of the Confederate Veteran magazine (Volume XXV, No. 1, January 1917).

He father Christopher P Poppenheim was the great grandson of a Hessian soldier and son of a Charleston rice plantation owner and physician. A Private in the Hampton Legion Infantry, his arm was “shattered” while he was carrying the regimental colors in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862 and he went home, disabled, in 1864. He sold his share of the family plantation in 1868 and was afterward a successful hardware dealer in Charleston. He was father to 4 daughters, all of whom graduated from Vassar College.

Captain Daniel H Hamilton, Jr was on General Roswell S. Ripley’s staff as acting Assistant Adjutant General at the start of the Maryland Campaign, but resigned “on account of a misunderstanding with his chief” and went to his father’s regiment, the First South Carolina Infantry. He was wounded while serving as acting Adjutant at Boteler’s Ford near Shepherdstown, VA on 20 September 1862.

His carte-de-visite (CDV) is on a page in the Heyward Album at the University of South Carolina.