d resides at Roselands, the old family homestead,
formerly in Edgefield, but now Greenwood County.

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CAPTAIN ANDREW HARLLEE.

Captain Andrew Harllee, of Company I, Eighth South Carolina Regiment,
when a boy went with a number of the best young men of the State
to Kansas Territory, in 1856, and saw his first service with the
Missourians in the border troubles in that Territory, and took part in
several severe engagements at Lawrence, Topeka, and Ossawattonic Creek
with the Abolition and Free State forces, under old John Brown and
Colonel Jim Law; the Southern or pro-slavery forces being under
General David R. Atchison and Colonels Stingfellow and Marshall. After
remaining in Kansas a year, he returned to his home and commenced
the study of law at Marion Court House, but after a short time was
appointed to a position in the Interior Department at Washington by
the Hon. Thos. A. Hendrix, under whom he served as a clerk in a land
office while in Kansas. This position in the Interior Department he
held at the time of the secession of the State, and was the recipient
of the first dispatch in Washington announcing the withdrawal of South
Carolina from the Union, which was sent him by his uncle, General
W.W. Harllee, then Lieutenant Governor and a member of the Secession
Convention. He at once began preparations for his departure from
Washington for Charleston, but was notified from Charleston to remain
until the Commissioners appointed by the Convention to proceed to
Washington and endeavor to treat with the authorities should arrive,
which he did, and was appointed their Secretary. The Commission
consisted of Senator Robert W. Barnwell, General James H. Adams, and
Honorable James L. Orr. After many fruitless efforts, they finally got
an audience with President Buchanan, who refused to treat with them in
any manner whatever, and Mr. Harllee was directed to proceed at once
to Charleston, the bearer of dispatches from the Commissioners to the
Convention still in session, and after delivering the same he reported
to Governor Pickens for duty. The Governor appointed him Assistant
Quartermaster, with the rank of Captain, and he discharged the duties
of that office around Charleston until the fall of Fort Sumter.

Anxious for service at the front, he resigned from the Quartermaster
Department and enlisted as a private in Company I, Eighth South
Carolina Regiment, and fought through the