I found this while reading through some old abbeville newspapers and hope it helps someone researching their family history.



NEWSPAPER ABSTRACTS
FROM
"THE ABBEVILLE BANNER"
Abbeville, South Carolina
for
FEBRUARY 1848 and MARCH 1848
NEWSPAPER Issue of Wednesday, FEBRUARY 2, 1848
FUNERAL HONORS
The interment of the remains of 1st Sergeant B.F. MATTISON who fell at the
storming of Chapultepec on the 13th of September last, will take place at
Broadmouth Church on Friday the 11th of Feburary in the following order:
A procession to be formed at Gentsville composed of the citizens of this and
the adjoining districts, and a Military Escort composed of the North West
Beat Company of the upper Battalion, Sixth Regiment, and the State
Fencibles, and an invitation is extended to all the members of the Sixth
Regiment and citizens generally. Aso the Greenwood Band and the Irish Band
of Greenville are respectfully invited to attend, the whole to be under the
command of Colonel S. Donald. The procession and escort will take up the
line of march at 11 o'clock a.m. and proceed to Broadmouth church, where a
funeral oration will be delivered by Mr. W. Leverett, after which the burial
will take place attended with Military Honors. William Long, Jr., Chairman
of Committee