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CAPTAIN DUNCAN MCINTYRE.
Captain Duncan McIntyre, of Company H, Eighth South Carolina
Regiment, Kershaw's Brigade, was born at Marion
S. C. on August 30th,
1836. Was prepared for college at Mount Zion Institute, at Winnsboro, S.
C. Entered Freshman Class of South Carolina College, December,
1853.
Married Julia R., daughter of General William
Evans,December, 1858. Commenced life as a planter on the west side of Pee
Dee River, in Marion County, January 1st, 1860.
On secession of the
State, he volunteered for service in the Jeffries' Creek Company. Was
elected First Lieutenant of the company, Captain R. G. Singletary having
been elected as commander. On Governor Pickens' first call for troops the
company offered its services and was assigned to the Eighth South Carolina
Regiment, Colonel E. B. C. Cash commanding. The company was ordered
to Charleston on fall of Fort Sumter where it remained until the last of
May, when it was ordered to Florence, S. C, where, about the 1st of June,
it was mustered into Confederate service by General Geo. Evans,and
immediately ordered to Virginia to form a part of Bonham's
Brigade.
Captain McIntyre was with the regiment at the first battle
of Manassas or Bull Run, and with the exception of two short leaves of
absence from sickness and from wounds, was with the regiment in nearly all
of its campaigns and important skirmishes and battles, Williamsburg,
battles around Richmond, Va., Maryland Heights, Sharpsburg,
Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Wilderness, Spottsylvania Court House,
and all of the battles against Grant up to the investment of Petersburg,
Va. He was with the regiment and Longstreet's Corps in the campaign in
Tennessee.
In the Tennessee campaign he commanded the Eighth
Regiment at the battle of Ream's Station, and when the Second,
Eighth, and Third Battalion. Under the command of the gallant Colonel
Gaillard, of the Second, made a daring and successful attack (at night) on
the picket line of the enemy, the Eighth was on the right and first to
dislodge the enemy and occupy the pits.
Captain McIntyre was twice
wounded—first, in the chest at the battle of Fredericksburg, Va., and
second time, severely in the thigh at Deep Bottom,
Ya.
