CALCASIEU GREYS January, 2018

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Brigadier General States Rights Gist.
He  was born in 1831 in South Carolina, was a lawyer and
a brigadier general in the South Carolina Militia. During the
Secession Crisis of 1860-61, he  was an adviser to the governor
of South Carolina. During the War for Southern Independence,
he served as an adviser to Gen. Joseph Johnston at the First
Battle of Manassas; led a South Carolina brigade under Johnston
in the Vicksburg Campaign; and was with his brigade at the
Battle of Chickamauga, the Atlanta Campaign and was killed
in action at the Battle of Franklin, TN Nov. 30, 1864. Gist was
a brave, competent and reliable combat commander.