On the call of the Governor of the State for Volunteers for the Confederate Army, our deceased friend was among the first to enroll his name for Virginia, or for any where else. He was a citizen of much prominence in Columbia, having been frequently elected one of the Aldermen of the City, in which public situation, he was active, useful, faithful, honest and energetic.

He was at one time, adjutant of the ___ Regiment So. Ca. Militia, from which military position, he was elected Major of Battallion. Soon after which, the war, so unrighteous, so wicked, so unscrupulous, outrageous, abominable and unprincipled, was precipitated on the Confederate States, by the imbecile, reckless, dishonest, hypocritical and lying Rump Government at Washington.

The entire South was aroused on the publication of Abraham Lincoln's Proclamation, demanding an army of Seventy Five Thousand men, for the ultimate intent (As is now clearly shewn) of the subjugation of the Confederate States. (But no! Not the entire South. Maryland and Kentucky, are disloyal and traitorous exceptions.).

South Carolina, first in Secession from a Government of Tyrant, so too, she was first to respond to Virginia's call for assistance. That State had been asleep over a volcano, and when driven to secede, was totally unprepared for war, or defence. She told her tale of danger, and the Confederate States, by their Volunteers, nobly marched to the rescue, and as has since been proven, in the late battles, many of them to wounds, and to death.

Our deceased friend and fellow citizen, was an early volunteer from Columbia, in the "Columbia Greys," of which he was elected Ensign; and on the arrival of the second regiment of So. Ca. Volunteers, at their post of duty in Virginia, (The greys being thereto attached) (or more properly 2d Lieutenant) Wood, was appointed, he honorably and usefully performed, until attacked by the disease, which has taken him from his family and friends.

Had he lived to join in battle, against the northern hordes, Goths and Vandals, he would not have dishonored his District, City and State; but is has been otherwise ordered by an inscrutable and wise Providence, to which (while we pen a line to the memory of our deceased friend) we would humbly submit.

The Roll of Honor and Broken Fortunes gives his date of death as July 30, 1961 of typhoid fever. Broken Fortunes cites William as a Captain and Assistant Quarter Master in the 2nd SC Volunteer Infantry, citing among others Salley Vol. II as his source, but I have found no record on him in this regiment.