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	Born on April 28th 1829, Joseph Lucius Gaston, the 3rd of seven sons of John B. and Mary 'Polly' [née McFadden] Gaston, grew up in the bounds of Cedar Shoals, the ancestral home of his American Revolutionary ancestors, in Chester County, South Carolina. A graduate of South Carolina College (Univ. of SC) in 1852 with a A.B. degree and joined the South Carolina Bar in 1857. Joseph married Miss Margaret Brice Hemphill on September 10th 1857; this union had two children. In April 1861, Joseph enlisted in the 6th South Carolina Infantry in Columbia, S.C. He was elected to be Captain of Company F; known as 'Calhoun Guards' and made up of men from Chester, Fairfield, York and a few from Lancaster Counties. On July 10th, 1861, the 6th South Carolina Infantry was ordered from Columbia, South Carolina to Richmond, Virginia to join the Confederate Army of the Potomac. During the Battle of Seven Pines outside Richmond, Virginia, Capt. Joseph Lucius Gaston was mortally wounded and died on May 31st 1862. His younger brother, William was killed at the same battle on the same day. Capt. Gaston's other brother, Pvt. Isaac Newton Gaston, serving in the same company; died from wounds in a military hospital after the first battle at Bull Run on Sept. 1st 1861.
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