This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/GeB.2ACI/890.3.1 Message Board Post: Lowry Ware wrote book about Abbeville County. I think they are going to begin reprints of it although I know it is available in the local library. The 5 colonels were from the Civil War. All knew each other and were wealthy men from Abbeville (except one who married an Abbeville girl). They died within a year of each other. I have a picture of Augustus Smith, and I know his father was Joel Smith. I do not know who his grandparents are.