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COLONEL F. S. LEWIE.
Colonel F. S. Lewie was born in Lexington County, in 1830,and received his early training there. He attended the High
School at
Mouticello, in Fairfield County. He taught school for a while, then began
the study of medicine. He attended the "College of Physicians and
Surgeons" in Paris, France, for two years, returning a short while before
the breaking out of hostilities between the North and South.At the outbreak of the war he joined Captain Gibbs' Company, and was made Orderly Sergeant. He served with that company, under Colonel Gregg, in the campaign against Sumter. His company did not disband when the fort fell, but followed Gregg to Virginia. At the expiration of their term of enlistment he returned to Lexington County, raised a company, and joined the Fifteenth. He was in most of the battles in which that regiment was engaged. Was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel, and in 1864 was elected to the State Senate from Lexington. He refused to leave his regiment, and did not accept the honor conferred upon him by the people of his county. While with his regiment in South Carolina, early in the spring of 1865, he was granted a few days' furlough to visit his home, at which smallpox had broken out, but was captured by Sherman's raiders before reaching home. He was parolled in North Carolina.
He was elected to the Legislature in 1866, serving until reconstruction. He died in 1877.
