1 8 SEVENTEENTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE 



neau's Ferry ; this duty was gallantly performed, 

 and the advance of the enemy stopped at 

 '* Brabant," the plantation of Bishop Smith. The 

 Americans here came up, and Sumter, the senior 

 ofHcer, contrary to the earnest advice of Marion, 

 rushed into a battle which proved disastrous to the 

 Americans. 



Mr. Gaillard was afterwards under the command 

 of General Moultrie, and in many of the engage- 

 ments south of Charleston. He also served under 

 Col. John Laurens, was one of an advanced party to 

 arrest the British in their retreat to Charleston, 

 and witnessed the fall of Col. Laurens by one 

 of the last balls discharged in that war. 



After the war was over, Capt. Gaillard married 

 Elizabeth Porcher, daughter of Peter, of Peru, a 

 lady to whom he had long been attached. Some 

 unpleasant and annoying occurrences he was fated 

 to endure from a very few Whigs, who wanted 

 magnanimity to cast a veil over his first and youth- 

 ful error. His subsequent course appeared to pro- 

 duce no effect upon them. Death, however, in a 

 few years, quieted every thing. And no man in any 

 community ever commanded in a greater degree 

 the confidence and esteem of his acquaintances, 

 friends, and neighbors than did Capt. Gaillard. 



I will add in corroboration, that in i 794, when 

 the militia laws of the State were remodelled and 

 the whole system changed, all commissions were 



