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 MANIGAULT

MANLY

Carolina for President of the United States in 1837. He received the degree of LL.D. from the University of North Carolina in 1845. He retired to liis country home at Red Mountain, Orange county, N.C., in 1853, and there resided until his death, which was caused by mental depression brought on by the loss of hb only son, who was fatally wounded at the first battle of Bull Run. H? died at Red Mountain, N.C.. Sept. 14, 1861.

MANIQAULT, Arthur Middleton, soldier, was born in Charleston, S.C, October, 1824; son of Ju^ieph and Charlotte (Drayton) Manigault; grandson of Peter and Elizabeth (Wragg) Mau< i^^uult, and a descendant of Peter and Judith (Royer) Manigault, 1685. He was prepared for college, but entered commercial life in Charles- ton, S.C, in 1844. He went to Mexico as Ist lieutenant in the Palmetto regiment and served in the field throughout the war. He returned to his mercantile pursuits but soon after engaged in the cultivation of rice on the Santee river. He was married, February, 1850, to Mary P., daughter of Daniel Elliott Huger. He was an inspector- general on General Beauregard's staff in Charles- ton in the spring of 1861, was made colonel of the 10th regiment of South Carolina infantry, June, 1861, and commanded the 1st military dis- trict of South Carolina, 1861-62. He was ordered to join Bragg's command then at Corinth, Miss., and was placed in command of a brigade in 1862. At Stone's rive he commanded the 4th brigade, 2J division, Polk'scorps, and greatly distinguished liimself by repeated successful assaults on the enemy's lines and was promoted brigadier-gen- eral, April, 1863. At Chickamauga his brigade held the left of Longstreet's left wing and here again his determined assaults won him credit. He commanded his brigade in Gen. Edward Johnson's division, Hood's corps, in Gen. J. E. Johnston's campaign, and in the Atlanta cam- p:iign, and in S. D. Lee's corps* in the invasion of T^^imessee under General Hood. At the battle of Franklin he received a wound in his head which ultimately caused his death. He returned to hia ric3 plantation after the war ; was elected adju- tant-general of South Carolina by the Democratic party for three successive terms, serving 1880-86, and was a candidate for re-election in 1886. He died in Georgetown county, S.C, Aug. 16, 1886.

MANIQAULT, Qabriel, merchant, was born in Charleston, S.C, April 21, 1704: son of Peter and Judith (Gitton) Royer Manigault. His father, a Huguenot, left La Rochelle, France in 1685. and about 1691 came by the way of England to South Carolina where he engaged in mercantile busi- ness in Charleston. His wife Judith (Gitton) Royer was a widow and came to South Carolina from La Voulte, in Dauphine, in France, in 1685. Gabriel engaged as a merchant with his father at

whose death in 1629 he inherited the busineas, and accumulateaa fortune estimated at $800,000. He declined to engage in the slave trade, which was then highly remunerative, but invested in laud and slaves. He was married, April 29, 1780, to Ann, daughter of John Ashby of St. Thomas and St. Denis Parish, S.C. He served as treas- urer of the province of Soutli Carolina, when the accounts of the St. Augustine ex|)edition were examined in 1738, and was a member of the South Carolina house of commons from Charles- ton for several years. He advanced $220,000 to the state of South Carolina to be used for de- fences just after the Declaration of Independence was made, and served in the defence of Charles- ton in May, 1779. He left £5000 sterling to the South Carolina society of Charleston at his death. He died in Charleston, S.C. June 5. 1781.

MANIQAULT, Qabriel Edward, educator, was born in Charleston, S.C, Jan. 7, 1833; son of Charles (1795-1874) and Elizabeth Manigault (Hey ward) Manigault ; grandson of Gabriel and Margaret (Izard) Manigault, and of Nathaniel Heyward, an extensive, rice-planter in South Carolina and the largest slaveholder in the United States, owning at the time of his death 2,143 slaves ; and a descendant of Peter and Judith (Gitton) Royer Manigault. His father made various trips to Euroj>e, Asia and Egypt and when Gabriel was thirteen entered him as a pupil at the Ck)llege Bourbon, Paris, where he remained, 1846-48. He was graduated at the College of Charleston, S.C, in 1852 ; at the Medical college of South Carolina in 1854, and completed his medical studies in Paris. France, 1854-5(j, and also a course in zoology at the Jardin des Plantes. He travelled extensively in Europe, Asia and Egypt in company with his father, mother, brothers and sisters. On his return to Charleston in 1857 he commenced the cultivation of a rice plantation on the Cooper river, B.C., which he conducted until 1873. He served in the Confederate army, 1861-65, first as a private and then as adjutant of the 4th South Carolina cavalry. He was made curator of the museum of natural history connected with the College of Charleston, S.C, in 1878, and professor of zoology in 1880. He was a corresponding member of the Zoological Society of London antl president of the Carolina Art association, 1882. He never mar- rie<l. He died in Charleston, S. C, Sept. 15. 1899.

MANLY, Basil, educator, was born in Pittsboro, N.C, Jan. 29. 1796 ; son of Basil and Elizabeth (Maultsby) Manly. He was licensed to preach in 1818 ; was graduated with honors from South Carolina college in 1821 ; was ordained to the Baptist ministry in 1822, and was pastor at Edge* wood court-house, and at Charleston. S.C. 1822- 36. He was married, Dec. 23. 1824. to Sarah