South Carolina was well represented by her faithful sons, who willingly offered their lives in defense of her principles and her honor. The blood she shed on that ever-memorable field was but the token of the great offering with which it was yet to be stained by the sacrifices of more than a thousand of her noblest sons.
The battle of Manassas fought and won, and trophies of the Confederate victory gathered from the plateau of the great strife, and from the line of the Union army’s retreat, the South Carolina troops with General Beauregard’s command were put into two brigades, Bonham’s, the First, and D. R. Jones, the Third. The Second, Third, Seventh and Eighth regiments made up General Bonham s brigade; the Fourth, Fifth, Sixth and Ninth, General Jones brigade. Gregg s First regiment was at Norfolk, and Hampton s legion was not brigaded. Head quarters were established at Fairfax Court House, and the Confederate line ran from Springfield on the Orange & Alexandria railroad to Little Falls above Georgetown. No event of great importance occurred in which the troops of South Carolina took part, in Virginia, during the remainder of the summer.
