Show A COMPANY OF RELATIVES There Is a movement in Horry county coun-ty South Carolina for the erection of a monument to the Confederate dead of the Tenth regiment South Carolina f volunteers The regiment had in if one company that become somewhat famousfor Its composition as well as its fighting Qualities The Athens Banner Ban-ner has been studying up the history of the regiment It tells us that it wag made up almost entirely of men from a dozen or more families and they were about all related to each other There were some ten Chesnuts fourteen four-teen Johnsons six or seven Alfords and so on The captain of the company com-pany was the cousin of nearly everyman every-man in the ranks who was not his brother bro-ther It was his custom in drilling to address his men in the most kindly manner somewhat in this way Cousin Cous-in Jeems dress to the right Buddy George please swell your chest Cousin Cous-in Arthur you want to turn toes out not inn But when it came to fight there were no more brave and daring fellows in the service than the Tenth regiment butternut company Savannah Sa-vannah Press |