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that he cannot say positively that Dr Heriot was actively engaged in the fight, but he can say Heriot was certainly there at the time it was transpiring.
   
Mr Gray states that at the time of the second engagement (22nd October 1862) at Pocotaligo (called by the rebels "the Battle of Yemasee) Dr Heriot was engaged as a detailed man in the Hosptials immediately at the rear at McPhersonville. The statement of Wm. L Trenholm, formerly commander of said company, corroborates the statement of A.P. Gray in each particular.

Mr Trenholm adds as his impression "that Heriot volunteered, in part, to escape conscription but more especially to escape proscription, as the feeling against those who refused to go into the army was running high at the time, and that but little time elapsed after Heriot enlisted before he was detailed for hospital duty".

In connection with the transmitted statement of W T Wilcox "that no notice was taken of his complaint (in this case) to the Secretary of the Treasury" I respectfully state, that I have been unofficially informed that the case was referred to Wm Henry Trescott of So Car for investigation and 

Transcription Notes:
Pocotaligo, South Carolina confirmed the Battle of Yamassee was a conflict fought in South Carolina from 1715–1717 between British settlers from the Province of Carolina and the Yamasee and a number of other allied Native American peoples