Adjutant Young John Pope.
Y. J. Pope was born in the town of Newberry,
S.C., on the 10th of April, 1841. Was the son of Thomas Herbert Pope
and Harriett Neville Pope, his wife. He was educated in the Male
Academy, at Newberry, and spent six years at Furman University,
Greenville, S.C., from which institution he graduated in Augst,
1860. After studying law under his uncle, Chief Justice O'Neall, he
entered the Confederate Army on April 13th, 1861, as First Sergeant in
Company E, of Third South Carolina Regiment of Infantry. He
participated in the battles of First Manassas and Williamsburg while in
his company. In May, 1862, he was made Adjutant of the Third South
Carolina Regiment, and as such participated in the 
battles of Savage Station, Malvern Hill, Maryland Heights,
Sharpsburg, First Fredericksburg (where he was slightly wounded),
Chancellorsville, Gettysburg (where he received three wounds), Chickamauga
(where he was severely wounded), Wilderness, Brock's Road and other
battles around Spottsylvania Court House, North Anna River Bridge, Second
Cold Harbor, Berryville (where he was shot through the mouth), Strausburg,
and Cedar Creek, on the 19th of October, 1864, where he lost his left eye,
which was totally destroyed by a minnie bullet.
Since the war he
has been elected Mayor of his native town at five elections. He was
elected by the Legislature District Judge of Newberry, in December, 1865,
and served as such until June, 1868, when Radicals abolished that
office. He was elected to the House of Representatives of his State
in the year 1877, and was by the Joint Assembly of the Legislature elected
Associate Counsel for the State to test the legality of State bonds, when
more than two million dollars were saved the State. He was elected
State Senator in 1888, and served until he was elected Attorney General of
the State, in 1890. He served in this office until the 3rd of
December, 1891, when he was elected Associate Justice of Supreme Court of
the State, and on the 30th of January, 1896, he was unanimously re-elected
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of South Carolina.
On the
3rd of December, 1874, he married Mrs. Sallie H. F. Rutherford. By
this union there were two daughters, Mary Butler Pope and Neville
Pope. The former died in October, 1893, and left a wound which has
never healed.
During a part of the year 1864 Adjutant Pope served
on the brigade staff as Assistant Adjutant General, and was acting in this
capacity when he received the wound that incapacitated him from further
service in the field.
