Found this old Newspaper Article. It contains a lot of names of men from Darlington SC who did not return from the war. Hope it helps someone.

Tuesday Afternoon May 1, 1923

Veteran E.J.C. Byrd Tells Of Death of Col. Alonzo Dargan

During a charge in a battle around Petersburg, Colonel Alonzo Dargan of the Twenty First Regiment South Carolina Volunteers ordered his color bearer to go forward to a railroad and the fellow refused, the place was to hot for him. Colonel Dargan snatched the colors from him and went forward himself saying “Follow where you see me boys”.

Just then Buck Young saw him and rushed forward to take the colors saying” I’ll take them anywhere you want them to go Colonel” and at just that moment Col. Dargan was mortally wounded.

In going over the men and boys who went to war from the Antiock Industrial School Darlington District all within a radius of four miles, I counted the names of eighty three who never returned to live.

First there were the Fraser boys, John, William, Bert and Charlie; they belonged to Company B Twenty First Regiment. Charlie always put two bullets in his gun, said “that was the way to kill Yankees” He was wounded leaving the field but stopped to speak to John when a shell struck killing both of them. Then Bert came home wounded. His father was quite old past eighty years and when he realized that his last boy would have to die, it was more than the old gentleman could stand and he just died of a broken heart, one hour before Bert died.

Then at Leavenworth Store (in Darlington), Captain Howie, the proprietor of the store, Messar Kirven Baxter Rollins (who was only 16) were all killed.. Captain Howle commanded Company M 8th Regiment SCV, afterwards Captain Coker and Rollins was the color bearer of The Pee Dee Battery.

John and Bob Haliburton came from a distinguished family in England. They were members of Captain Howle’s Company. John was wounded at Gettysburg and the last seen of him he was lying near a barn. We never knew what became of him until the reunion at Gettysburg, when the owner of that barn described a wounded man found dead the day after the battle in the upper part of the barn. And we suppose it must have been John. Bob was killed out west on picket duty.

Ben Nettles died in the Army. He belonged to Captain Howle’s Company. Sam Nettles belonged to Captain Coker’s he was wounded and died from the effects of it after the war.

Of the four Gainey brothers only one returned from the war. Of the seven Windman brothers none returned.

There were three Hudson brothers, all their widowed mother had except her daughter, all three were killed also the daughters husband. Dan Coker. Bob Hudson was a Lieutenant in Company G, 21st Regiment. Tom belonged to Major Coker’s. I don’t recall the company to which Jesse belonged. Dan Coker was also in Captain Coker’s company.

Jim and Peter Kilgore belonged to Major J.L. Coker’s company were killed within a few minutes of each other at Seven Pines.

Sandy Tyner either died or was killed. His son Caleb had just fired his gun and turned over on his back to reload when a bullet struck him in the head and killed him.

E.L and A.C. Wilkins returned but John was killed.

Baxter Rollins who was killed at Sharpsburg was a first cousin of mine and raised in our family. Alex Byrd my brother and Baxter were killed in the same battle.

William Byrd lost two sons Matthew and Peter. Matthew was on the sick list but went into battle anyway and was killed. Matthew Byrd Sr. had four boys in the war two died and two survived though badly wounded.

When the Yankees captured Morris Island and were firing on Fort Sumter, our men while removing stores were exposed to the shells. A Sentinel was stationed on the look out and when he saw a puff of smoke from the enemy he called out so they would have time to run to the Bomb Proofs. The shells were fired fifteen minutes apart, the Sentinels

were changed every two hours (if alive) at one time they were killed every shot which was fifteen minutes apart till three were killed one right after another. H.C. Ousley of the Twenty First Reg. was ordered to be the fourth. He said going on that outlook was harder than going into any battle he ever went into but he was not hurt. Not another shot was fired.

Caleb and Nat Odom were twins, fine fellows. One of them I think it was Nat was blown up at the Battle of the Crater. When he came down one leg was blown off and he was buried beneath the earth all except his head. He stood in that position between our fire and the enemy’s from daylight till the next night of the next day, nearly forty eight hours when John Hogg, Jim Hutchinson and another man went out and dug him out. He lived for some years after the war.

Jim Hutchinson told of a Captain, his name I don’t remember lying buried in a Bomb Proof for three days. He bored his sword through the top of it and it was seen by some of the men who went to him and dug him out. He was stone blind.

Article from a Darlington SC Newspaper

Article located in the Nettles Family File, Darlington County Archives, SC