I will now proceed to give, as well as I can recollect from memory, the different incidents that occurred to myself and Regiment during my connection with the Southern Army, a period of 12 months. My Company left Yorkville1 on the 27th day of November, 1861, and proceeded from there by railroad to Camp of Instruction at Columbia, on the College Grounds. The Company to which I belonged was called The Carolina Rifles, commanded at the time by my uncle, Captain William B. Wilson, having for lieutenants 1st Lieutenant J.W. Avery, another uncle of my own, 2nd Lieutenant D.L. Logan, 2nd Lieutenant R.H. Whisonant. Our company consisted of 100 men from York District, all as stout and hardy a set of men as left the peaceful firesides of home to meet the foul oppressor. I was only entering lacking two months of my 15th year, having obtained consent of my parents, after worrying them out begging them, and having two uncles in the company.
1 Now called York the county seat of York County, S.C. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/York,_South_Carolina