My GG Grandfather A.B. Hutto, Private, Company "K" 13th South Carolina Infantry enlisted at the very first of the war at age 18. I actually have a picture of him in his uniform. He fought with Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson at Chancellorsville. He was seriously wounded during the Battle of McPherson's Ridge, on July 1st 1863, during the Battle of Gettysburg, Pa. He was captured in the hospital after the battle by Union forces on July 5th, 1863. He was listed a Prisoner of War at Decamp General Hospital, Davids Island, New York, Harbor. And listed as being exchange at Camp Lee near Richmond by Union Major John E. Mulford of the 3rd New York Infantry under a flag of truce along with 685 other prisoners on September 8th, 1863. He was listed as returned to duty September 16th, 1863.

He again was wounded in the back an left hand by shell fragments during the fighting in May 1864 above Richmond during the Wilderness/Spotsylvania Campaign. He was admitted to the Receiving and Wayside Hospital #9 in Richmond on May 24th, 1864. Then was transferred to Jackson Hospital, Richmond, on May 25th. He was again Transferred to Columbia SC to recover on May 28th, 1864.

He was again returned to duty. But on April 2nd, 1865 was again taken prisoner, at Hatch Run, during the Battle for Petersburg, Va. He was sent to City Point, Va. On April 7th, and from there he was shipped to Hart's Island, New York, Harbor and held there until paroled on June 16th, 1865 under General Order #109, of June 6, 1865.

Wounded twice and capture twice he was still appearently fighting (somehow) in April 1865 when he was captured the second time even after being disabled in the left arms in the Wilderness Battles. He was disabled for the remained of his life due to the wounds received in May 1864.

He left South Carolina after 1880 to excape the repressions and poverty there and moved to Arkansas to start a new life hopefully. Only 3 of his 9 children lived long enough to reach adulthood. One of the things I learned when I visited a Charleston, South Carolina plantation a couple of years ago was that the Yankee's when they finally occupied Charleston when out and purposely burned and destroyed the rice crops in the area to deprive the people of food and confiscated all the cotton for their purposes. This went on even after the war. The plantations turned to another crop to sell and planted their fields not with Cotton or Rice but Pecan Trees to sell the pecans. Many of those trees survive to this day.

The Federal occupation of the South in general was mean and malicious as a whole. It is little wonder that the southern people being taxed away from their land, starved with the destruction of their crops, roaming bands of outlaws who seemingly operated with immunity and disenfranchized from voting so that they had no voice to repersent them, rebelled as much as they could in secret organizations, or moved away to safer lands during that period of our (glorious) history.