Official programme and guide book, reunion, . ; but on its expiration, he was ap- pointed Commissioner to represent the interests of the United Statesin the Union Pacific Railway, and is now living^ in Columbia in hon-orable retirement. Brigadier General Peter Alexander SelkirkMcGlaslian. Was born in Edinburgh Scotland, May 19th, 1830. He was theson of James McGlashan, an old AYaterloo Veteran and. aftenvard,merchant in Edinburgh, the grandson of Peter McGlashan, lastchief of the clan of that name. Emigrated through Savannah, Ga.,in 1848, to the West, and, in 1856, joined his fortunes with Gen
Official programme and guide book, reunion, . ; but on its expiration, he was ap- pointed Commissioner to represent the interests of the United Statesin the Union Pacific Railway, and is now living^ in Columbia in hon-orable retirement. Brigadier General Peter Alexander SelkirkMcGlaslian. Was born in Edinburgh Scotland, May 19th, 1830. He was theson of James McGlashan, an old AYaterloo Veteran and. aftenvard,merchant in Edinburgh, the grandson of Peter McGlashan, lastchief of the clan of that name. Emigrated through Savannah, Ga.,in 1848, to the West, and, in 1856, joined his fortunes with GeneralWalker in Nicaragua. After the failure of the Walker McGlashan returned to the United States and engaged inbusiness in ThomaSTille, Ga. At the outbreak of the war betweenthe States, he joined the Twenty-Ninth Georgia Regiment, in ser-vice on the coast; afterwards the Fiftieth Georgia Regiment, andwas elected First Lieutenant of Company E; went to Virginia inJune, 1862, and participated in all the campaigns of the Army of. WADE HAMPION. Northern Virginia until April 5th, 1865, meanwhile rising in rankfrom First Lieutenant to Brigadier Genei-al, his commission as Brig-adier General being the last signed by President Davis before thefall of Richmond. He was wounded in the battles of Sharpsburgand Cedar Cteek; was captured at Sailors Ci-eek, and sent to prisonat Johnsons Island; was in the Capitol prison, in Washington, thenight that President Lincoln was assassinated; was released fromprison August 25th, 1865, and re-entered business in Thomasville, of which city he was elected Mayor in 186(5; was elected Captainof the Thomasville Guards in 1874; moved to Savannah in 1885; isnow president of the Savannah Confederate Veterans Association,formed in 1887. now known as Camp 756, United Confederate Vet-erans. On his mothers side, General McGlashan is descended froman old and honorable Border family of Jedburghshire, Scotland,known as the Proud Selkirks of the J
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