Our Family's Journey Through The South
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William M. Hyman was born in Marion County in 1812 shortly after his parents, Eaton and Wealthy Hyman moved there from Martin County, North Carolina. William married Elizabeth Howren from Georgetown, South Carolina in 1845, at age 33. He later had a family with Katherine Richardson in 1854. He had a farm in Marion County but also worked as a merchant in Georgetown.
William was in his late 40's when he joined the South Carolina 10th Regiment in the summer of 1861. The regiment was formed in the coastal counties to defend the port of Georgetown after most of the other state regiments went to Virginia. The regiment initially had many older men, like William, but they were allowed to leave the army when the regiment was moved to Mississippi in the spring of 1862 as reinforcements after the Battle of Shiloh. His brother left the regiment, while William stayed.
The regiment was part of the Kentucky campaign in the autumn of 1862 and was at the Battle of Perryville. William fell ill as the army marched back south through the Cumberland Gap and entered the hospital at Tazewell, Tennessee in October 1862. He was moved to the Fairgrounds Hospital where he died about six weeks later.
10th Infantry Regiment was organized at Camp Marion, near Georgetown, South Carolina, in July, 1861. Its members were raised in the counties of Georgetown, Horry, Williamsburg, Marion, and Charleston. The regiment moved to Cat Island where many of the men suffered from typhoid fever, measles, and mumps. In March, 1862, it was sent to Mississippi, then in the Kentucky Campaign it was involved in the capture of Munfordsville. During the war it was assigned to General Manigault's and Sharp's Brigade and from September, 1863 to April, 1864, was consolidated with the 19th Regiment. The unit served with the Army of Tennessee from Murfreesboro to Atlanta, endured Hood's winter campaign in Tennessee, and saw action in North Carolina. It lost 16 killed, 91 wounded, and 2 missing at Murfreesboro, and the 10th/19th had 236 killed or wounded at Chickamauga and totalled 436 men and 293 arms in December, 1863. During the Atlanta Campaign, July 20-28, the 10th Regiment lost 19 of 24 officers engaged and surrendered on April 26, 1865, with no officers and 55 men. The field officers were Colonels Arthur M. Manigault and James F. Pressley, Lieutenant Colonels Julius T. Porcher and C. Irvine Walker,and Major A.J. Shaw.
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