Many of these men moved to Sumter postwar; the
rest for the most part either transferred in
(usually in exchange for a man who could not longer
mount, after April 1864), or as a result of
conscription. For the most part this listing is
restricted to those men from old Sumter District who
were part of the Hampton Legion (Mounted) Infantry.
Company
A (Washington Light Infantry Volunteers)
James
Peronneau Gibbes, Jr.: 3 LT 20 Aug 1863; disability
de to wounds Dec 64; resident Charleston at enlistment;
school teacher in Darlington, Florence,
Clarendon, Kershaw, and Sumter Counties postwar; d.
Sumter County 7 Apr 1899; buried Rembert Meth, Lee
County.
Joseph
A. Clark, Private; transferred to E/1 TEX July
1862; "Memory Rolls assert he was a resident of
Sumter District at enlistment; brother of T. A. G.
Clarke, Co H (note difference in spelling)
Julius
A. Thompson, d. 1895; buried High Hills of Santee Bap,
near Dalzell
Company D (Gist Rifles)
Reuben
R. Hudgens, 1 LT; not reelected at reorganization Apr 1862
and dropped; resident Williamston at entry in service;
resident Charleston 1865-81; moved to Foreston, Clarendon
County and farmed and saw miilled until his death 21 Feb
1906, age 89.
Company E
(Bozeman Guards)
David McCord ("Mack")Lee; enlisted 1864; previously in
D/9 S.C.; resident Sumter District
Company
F (Davis Guards)
Gilbert Morgan, Jr., transferred to Company 10 Jun 1864;
previously in D/9 S.C., then in K/26 S.C.; resident
Bradford Springs P. O., Sumter District
Company
H (South Carolina Zouaves)
Thomas
Alfred G. Clarke, Original 3 LT; promoted to 2 LT;
married Mrs. Ada White Bacot (of near Mars Bluff) 10 Nov
1863, and killed in action at Dandridge, Tenn., one day
after returning from wound furlough; brother Joseph
A. Clark of Co A, said to live in Sumter District; but
family had home in Charleston
Donald
John Auld: Original 2 SGT of company; resident
Charleston; married Venetia Hammett of Clarendon 6 Sep
66; moved to Sumter 1871; businessman and
postmaster in Sumter postwar; d. 19 Jul 1900; buried
Sumter Cemetery
Louis
B. Hanks, enlisted 1864; previously in I/4 S.C. State
Troops (6 Months 1863-64); resident and merchant in
Sumter; moved to Charleston 1865; d. 2 May 1868; buried
Magnolia Cemetery, Charleston
Field
& Staff
James
Hervey ("Hervey") Dingle, Jr.: Original 2 LT Company C,
then 1 LT; elected Major and transferred to Field
and Staff 20 Jun 1862; killed in action at Sharpsburg
carrying the colors. His last words were "Legion!
Follow your flag!" b. Charleston,
reared Sumter District (Clarendon Section); married a
cousin, Angeline Ann Matilda Dingle 3 Dec 1846; planter
in Clarendon at time of election as 2 LT; buried on
field but remains removed to Rose Hill Cemetery,
Hagerstown, Med; memorial at Evergreen Cemetery,
Summerton
William
Thomas: Original PVT Company C; serving as acting
chaplain of Legion early 1863; appointed Chaplain for
bravery at Campbell's Station 16 Nov 1863, and
transferred to Field and Staff (went to the side of a
mortally wounded man under fire to pray for and comfort
him; only instance of which I am aware of a promotion of
a chaplain for battlefield bravery); married Miss E.
McKnight of Summerton 1867; ordained Methodist minister
1869 and entered itinerancy; b. Norfolk, England 23 Apr
1830; d. Florence en route to annual Conference 1
Dec 1890, and buried Horton-Savage Family Cemetery,
near Davis Station, Clarendon County
Samuel
Isaac Gaillard: Original 1 SGT Company C; appointed
Sergeant major 20 Sep 1861 and transferred to Field and
Staff; discharged for disability 7 Nov 1862; planter in
Clarendon prewar; married Susan Richardson DuBose 24 Dec
1856; in charge of Agricultural Experimental Station
near Hagood later in life; died Hagood 27 Sep 1898,
and buried at Episcopal Chrurch of the Ascension (He was
the father of David DuBose Gaillard, engineer of the
Gaillard Cut on the Panama Canal)
Henry
James McLaurin: Original PVT, Company C; assigned as
hospital steward Sep 1861, and transferred to Field and
Staff; promoted Assistant Surgeon, CSA 1 June 1864, and
assigned to 7 S.C. Cavalry, in Gary's Cavalry Brigade;
lived Wedgefield 1869-86, where he practiced medicine;
then in Lumber business in Sumter to death 7 May 1921'
buried Wedgefield Presbyterian Church.
McLeod,
John C.: Original PVT Company C; appointed
Hospital Steward Sep 1861; doctor in Clarendon prewar;
d. 1873.
Thomas Waites Dinkins
Although not in the Hampton Legion, one other man from
Sumter who had connections to it was Thomas Waites
Dinkins . He was the original 2nd SGT of Company A
Holcombe's Legion Cavalry Battalion who was promoted to
2 LT in 1863, and was assigned as Quartermaster of the
Holcombe Legion Cavalry Battalion. That unit was
consolidated with other cavalry units to form the 7th
S.C. Calvary. Dinkins was a line officer in
Company I of the 7th S.C. Calvary in early 1864, but was
assigned as Quartermaster of the 7th S.C. Calvary.
From 10 August through September he was the acting
Quartermaster of Gary's Cavalry Brigade, of which the
Legion and 7th S. C. Cavalry were a part. He
returned to the regiment upon the return of the regular
brigade Quartermaster. He was a lawyer, teacher,
and newspaper editor and publisher in Sumter. He died 11
June 1868, and is buried in Sumter Cemetery.
