Gladden Home Site

Gladden Home Site is a South Carolina historical marker in Columbia, Richland County, dedicated 1987.

Richland County · dedicated 1987 · Wheat St., just W of its intersection with Pickens St., Columbia, Columbia

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States-rights advocate Adley Hogan Gladden, who lived here before the Civil War, served Columbia as postmaster 1841-45 and was later bursar of S. C. College, captain of the Governor's Guard, and intendant of Columbia 1851-52. In 1847 he assumed command of the Palmetto Regiment during the Mexican War and later rose to the rank of brigadier general during the Civil War. Gladden was killed in Tennessee at the Battle of Shiloh, 1862.

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Marker data: South Carolina Historical Marker Program, SC Department of Archives and History
Sponsored by University of S.C. Chapter, National Society, Daughters of the American Revolution

Gladden Home Site

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