Current Status Introducing Body:Senate Bill Number:659 Primary Sponsor:Drummond Type of Legislation:CR Subject:Armed Forces of South Carolina Date Bill Passed both Bodies:Mar 06, 1991 Computer Document Number:BR1/1226.AC Introduced Date:Feb 14, 1991 Last History Body:Senate Last History Date:Mar 06, 1991 Last History Type:Received from House Scope of Legislation:Statewide All Sponsors:Drummond Bryan Thomas Type of Legislation:Concurrent Resolution
Bill Body Date Action Description CMN
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659 Senate Mar 06, 1991 Received from House
659 House Mar 06, 1991 Introduced, adopted, returned
with concurrence
659 Senate Mar 05, 1991 Adopted, sent to House
659 Senate Feb 28, 1991 Committee Report: Favorable 10
659 Senate Feb 14, 1991 Introduced, referred to 10
Committee
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COMMITTEE REPORT
February 28, 1991
S. 659
Introduced by SENATORS Drummond, Bryan and Thomas
S. Printed 2/28/91--S.
Read the first time February 14, 1991.
To whom was referred a Concurrent Resolution (S. 659), to commend the volunteers of the South Carolina Defense Force, etc., respectfully
That they have duly and carefully considered the same, and recommend that the same do pass:
THOMAS L. MOORE, for Committee.
TO COMMEND THE VOLUNTEERS OF THE SOUTH CAROLINA DEFENSE FORCE, ON THE FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF ITS ESTABLISHMENT, FOR THEIR DEDICATED SERVICE TO THIS STATE, TO EXPRESS THAT THE GRATITUDE OF SOUTH CAROLINA FOR THIS SERVICE IS DEEP AND LASTING AND TO RECOGNIZE THIS ANNIVERSARY BY ATTENDING THE CEREMONY ON THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 1991, AT 11:00 A.M. ON THE SOUTH STEPS OF THE STATE HOUSE.
Whereas, the Armed Forces of the State of South Carolina date their establishment from 1670 when the settlement at Charles Towne of the Province of Carolina, was founded and the first militia was organized for defense of the settlement; and
Whereas, for more than three hundred twenty years, the Armed Forces of the State of South Carolina have maintained the proud tradition of service to the people of this State, volunteering to serve both in time of peace and in time of war, in such notable organizations and under such trying conditions as the repulse of the French and Spanish, the invasion of Florida and the siege of St. Augustine in 1706; the Yemassee Uprising of 1715; Vander Dussen's South Carolina Regiment of 1740 which accompanied the forces of General Oglethorpe in the invasion of Florida to further the security of the small settlement in Georgia; Howarth's South Carolina Regiment of 1757 and Middleton's South Carolina Regiment of 1760 known as "The Buffs"; and the many local companies of mounted Rangers as well as the four county regiments of militia who defended the ever expanding frontiers of South Carolina from 1716 until 1761; the six regular regiments of South Carolina Forces, The Continental Line, raised in 1775 and lost to the British in 1780; the many South Carolina regiments of militia which provided troops in defense of the Province and the State from 1775 until 1780 and which were reformed into three brigades under Generals Marion, Pickens, and Sumter, serving until the departure of the British and the Loyalists of South Carolina in 1783; the militia which volunteered in 1807 following the Chesapeake-Leopard Affair, of whom the Washington Light Infantry of Charleston remains; the militia which volunteered to defend the State and Nation once more in 1812 and again in 1846 to form the glorious Palmetto Regiment which raised its flag over the halls of Montezuma and of Santa Ana, avenging the noble volunteers from South Carolina who died at The Alamo; the thousands of militia who volunteered as units and as individuals during the War of 1861-1865; and those who volunteered as units and as individuals in 1898; and
Whereas, since the early part of the twentieth century, a part of the militia of South Carolina has been organized as the National Guard, and the National Guard has been called to leave the State of South Carolina in the service of the nation on four occasions and even now, many hundreds of South Carolina National Guardsmen and women have been called upon and are serving this country in the war in the Persian Gulf; and
Whereas, the State of South Carolina has depended upon another component of the militia, called first the South Carolina Militia Reserve during World War I, the South Carolina Defense Force from 1941 to 1944, and the South Carolina State Guard, 1944 until the present time, to defend the State and to provide military assistance to civil authorities; and
Whereas, the South Carolina Defense Force was established on the twenty-first of March, 1941, when Governor Burnet Rhett Maybank signed Act 54 of the 84th General Assembly of the State of South Carolina; and
Whereas, the South Carolina Defense Force, now the South Carolina State Guard, composed entirely of volunteers has served in the best tradition of its many ancestor organizations from 1941 until 1947, and now since 1981. Now, therefore,
Be it resolved by the Senate, the House of Representatives concurring:
That the members of the General Assembly upon the fiftieth anniversary of the establishment of the South Carolina Defense Force commend the many volunteers in this force who have served this State with dedication and honor with no thought of recompense, joining together in the resolve that no possible thing be left undone that would help to protect our homeland, to express that the gratitude of South Carolina for this service is deep and lasting and to recognize this auspicious occasion by attending the fiftieth anniversary ceremony on Thursday, March 21, 1991, at 11:00 A.M. on the south steps of the State House.