Civil War Confederate Army Officer. He was engaged in the practice of law when he hastened to the call of his native South Carolina in 1861. A life long bachelor and alumni of the South Carolina Military Academy (The Citadel), he entered as a Captain and commander of Company E, 3rd South Carolina Infantry on April 14, 1861. He accepted the Colonelcy and command of the 3rd on May 14, 1862. His service for the Southern Confederacy was mainly in the east, particularly along the Virginia front. Colonel Nance returned to his command on July 3, 1863 at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania after convalescing from a severe wound received at the December 1862 Battle of Fredericksburg. His arrival was after most of the action at this battle had been concluded. As a contingent of General Joseph Brevard Kershaw's Brigade of James Longstreet's 1st Corps, Colonel Nance and his command was temporarily shifted west in September 1863 and participated in the significant battle of Chickamauga. "Pierced by five balls", he fell dead in battle on May 6, 1864 while commanding his South Carolinians in an entwining and confusing Virginia woodland named the Wilderness. A monument stands today in the Wilderness National Battlefield Park marking where he fell.
Civil War Confederate Army Officer. He was engaged in the practice of law when he hastened to the call of his native South Carolina in 1861. A life long bachelor and alumni of the South Carolina Military Academy (The Citadel), he entered as a Captain and commander of Company E, 3rd South Carolina Infantry on April 14, 1861. He accepted the Colonelcy and command of the 3rd on May 14, 1862. His service for the Southern Confederacy was mainly in the east, particularly along the Virginia front. Colonel Nance returned to his command on July 3, 1863 at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania after convalescing from a severe wound received at the December 1862 Battle of Fredericksburg. His arrival was after most of the action at this battle had been concluded. As a contingent of General Joseph Brevard Kershaw's Brigade of James Longstreet's 1st Corps, Colonel Nance and his command was temporarily shifted west in September 1863 and participated in the significant battle of Chickamauga. "Pierced by five balls", he fell dead in battle on May 6, 1864 while commanding his South Carolinians in an entwining and confusing Virginia woodland named the Wilderness. A monument stands today in the Wilderness National Battlefield Park marking where he fell.
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