The War Between The States
was the heyday of American battleflags and their
bearers. With unusualhistorical accuracy, many stirring battle paintings
show the colors and their intrepid bearers in the forefront of the fray or
as a rallying point in a retreat. The colors of a Civil War regiment
embodied its honor, and the men chosen to bear them made up an elite. Tall,
muscular men were preferred, because holding aloft a large, heavy banner,
to keep it visible through battle smoke and at a distance, demanded
physical strength. Courage was likewise required to carry a flag into
combat, as the colors "drew lead like a magnet." South Carolina's Palmetto
Sharpshooters, for example, lost 10 out of 11 of its bearers and ...
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deep into the soil of the lowcountry. His Whilden ancestors had
settled in the Charleston area in the 1690's, and an ancestor on his
mother's side, the Rev. William Screven, had arrived in South Carolina
even earlier, establishing the First Baptist Church of Charleston in 1683,
today the oldest church in the Southern Baptist Convention. Like many
Southerners who came of age in the late antebellum period, Charles Whilden
took pride in his ancestors' role in the American Revolution, especially
his grandfather, Joseph Whilden, who, at 18, had run away from his
family's plantation in Christ Church Parish to join the forces under
Brigadier General Francis "Swamp Fox" Marion fighting the British.
At the time of Charles' birth, the family of Joseph and Elizabeth Whilden
lived comfortably in their home on Magazine Street, attended by their
devoted slave, Juno Waller Seymour, a diminutive, energetic black woman
known as "Maumer Juno" to four generations of the Whilden family. ...
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to establish a law practice in Charleston, Attorney
Whilden chose to seek his fortune outside his home town. But the practice
of law in the upcountry town of Pendleton also failed to pan out for
Whilden. Confronted with a major career decision, Whilden elected not only
to leave the law but also to leave the Palmetto State for the north.
The 1850 federal censustakers found Charles Whilden living in a boarding
house in Detroit, Michigan, where he worked as a clerk, probably in a
newspaper office. Speculation in copper stocks and land on Lake Superior
soon left Charles deeply in debt to his youngest brother, William, who had
built up a successful merchandising business back home in ...
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