Excerpt from Confederate Veteran, 1911, Vol. 19: Published Monthly in the Interest of the Confederate Veterans and Kindred Topics Dr. W. H. Tibbs and Van H. Manning organized companies and marched them from Ashley County. These two captains got permission to go to Virginia with their little battalion. Manning obtained the influence of Hon. Albert Rust, formerly a member of Congress, to organize eight companies, and joined the two companies at Lynchburg, where the regiment was organized. Rust became colonel, Manning major, and Dr. Tibbs captain of Company A. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.