Page:Newspaper clipping about Hon. Henry Buist published June 16, 1887 - DPLA - f83881dbf6068c598d0e7822c40ba8b0.pdf/1



Hon. Henry Buist, one of the most prominent lawyers and citizens of South Carolina, died at Charleston. He was born in Charleston in 1829; was graduated from South Carolina college in 1847, and was admitted to the Bar in 1851. He entered the Confederate service at the beginning of the war as a captain in the 27th South Carolina regiment, Hagood's brigade. He was captured while charging the breastworks at Petersburg in 1864 and held as hostage on Morris Island under the fire of Confederate guns. After the War he resumed the practice of law and achieved large success. He was elected State Senator from Charleston county in 1865, and was a prominent Mason, having attained the highest degree. He was Grand Chancellor of the Supreme Council, Scottish rite, thirty-third degree, and inspector general of that order for South Carolina.