Means’ 1st SC Militia

Means’ 1st SC Militia

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Captain Samuel Faucette’s Company, Lt. Col Hugh Means 1st Regiment

Served in the South Carolina Militia in Charleston and did not fight in the Battle of New Orleans. Captain Samuel Faucette’s Company, Lt. Col Hugh Means 1st Regiment of So.Carolina State Militia in Union District. On that date, there was a rendezvous of the First and Second

Regiments of the state militia at Lipsey’s Old Fields in Union District. From there the regiment marched along the Old State

Road by way of Granby (near Columbia in Lexington District), to Charleston, arriving about the seventh of the month. On the

27th of October, the regiment was armed, equipped and quartered in barracks on Haddrell’s Point. These barracks were

located near the town of Mount Pleasant, across the harbor directly east of the city of Charleston. On 19 Nov 1814 , When news was received that a treaty of peace had been concluded on December 24th, that Jackson had overwhelmingly

defeated the British at New Orleans and that hostilities had been suspended, some of the men at Charleston tired of anxious

waiting and impatient to get home, hired substitutes and were discharged. Some of these substitutes are named on Mean’s

Regiment list. The regiment itself was mustered out of service at Charleston on March 7, 1815.  A decade later the State of South Carolina sold at auction the rifles, muskets, pistols, thousands of flints, gun carriage wheels, and tons of cannon balls that had been stored at the Charleston

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Info taken from PDF paper on the Decendants of Magilbry C. Findley

 

The following description accompanied Capt. Robert Caldwell's roster. The author
> is unknown:
>
> Capt. Caldwell's Company, on of three raised in York District, was assembled at
> Yorkville. It joined the rendezvous of the First and Second Regiments of state
> militia at Lipsey's Old Fields in Union District on Oct. 1, 1814. From there the
> regiment marched along the Old State Road by way of Granby (near Columbia in
> Lexington District), to Charleston, arriving about the seventh of the month. On
> the 27th it was armed, equipped and quarted in barracks on Haddrell's Point. It
> remained there until the end of November when it transferred over to John's
> Island and prepared for possible attack by the British on Charleston.
> Colonel Adam McWillie and the members of his staff were attended by individual
> body servants, some of whom were hired out to work on the fortifications. The
> life of an enlisted man was not so easy.
> When news was received that a treaty of peace had been concluded on December
> 24th, that Jackson had overwhelmingly defeated the British at New Orleans and
> that hostilities had been suspended, some of the men tired of anxious waiting
> and impatient to get home, hired substitutes and were discharged.
> Sickness kept Surgeon Daughty and his mates busy and Chaplain Brannon had to
> perform last rites for seven men of Caldwell's Company. The regiment itself was
> mustered out of service at Charleston on March 7, 1815.
> A decade later the State of South Carolina sold at auction the rifled, muskets,
> pistols, thousands of flints, gun carriage wheels, and tons of cannon balls that
> had been stored at the Charleston Arsenal during the military buildup.
>
> All of the men in the following list were from York District. All of the
> officers and most of the enlisted men joined the regiment on Oct. 1, 1814 and
> rendezvoused at Lipsey's Old Field. They were discharged at either Charleston
> or John's Island.