Printed and manuscript Certificate of Eligibility for a Southern Cross of Honor, addressed "To the United Daughters of the Confederacy," dated April 12, 1904, and signed by the applicant, Allard Belin Hemingway, of Rome, S.C.

The certificate states that Hemingway entered Confederate service on the 1st of January 1864 as a Private in Company B of the Cadets Regiment, S.C. Infantry Volunteers, being then a resident of Rome, S.C., and that he was honorably discharged "by furlough by Maj. J. B. White" on the 1st of May 1865, holding the rank of Private. Maj. James Benjamin White, Superintendent of the Citadel, commanded the Battalion of State Cadets, the unit formed from the cadets of the South Carolina Military Academy (the Citadel in Charleston and the Arsenal in Columbia), which saw service at Tulifinny and in the final defense of the state and was among the last organized Confederate forces in South Carolina.

Published rosters of the Battalion of State Cadets carry Hemingway, Allard Belin (1846-1922), of Georgetown District, as a Fourth Class cadet private in Company B, later a farmer and merchant in Georgetown County.

The certificate is endorsed by two veterans: C. L. Morris, Co. [H?], 26th S.C. Vols., C.S.A., and John Ferdon, Co. A, 7th S.C. Vols., C.S.A. At lower left are the manuscript endorsements of J. Harleston Read, Commander, Camp Arthur Manigault No. 768, United Confederate Veterans, and of the camp's adjutant.

The reverse bears the printed docket "Certificate of Eligibility for Cross of Honor / Application to United Daughters of Confederacy," completed in manuscript for A. B. Hemingway, Co. B, Citadel Cadets Reg't, South Carolina Vols., C.S.A., filed May 10th, 1904, with the pencil number "79" at top.

One page, approx. 8 1/2 x 10 3/4 in., on blue-gray wove paper. Folded in thirds and in half, with light separations at the folds, light toning, scattered small stains and minor edge wear. Legible and complete.

A scarce cadet-service application – Cross of Honor certificates for members of the Battalion of State Cadets are seldom encountered, and this example ties a documented Citadel cadet to his Georgetown County veterans' camp.   [ss] [ph:L]

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