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Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Biographical (search)
ton Brigadier-General Thomas Fenwick Drayton was born in South Carolina about 1807, of an ancestral line distinguished in the history of the State. His grandfather, William Drayton, born in South Carolina in 1733, was educated in law at the Temple, London; was appointed chief justice of the province of East Florida in 1768, and after the revolution was judge of admiralty, associate justice of the supreme court, and first United States district judge. His father, William Drayton, born in 1776, a lawyer, entered the United States service as lieutenant-colonel in 1812; was promoted colonel, and later inspector-general; was associated with Generals Scott and Macomb in the preparation of a system of infantry tactics; resigned in 1815, afterward served in Congress 1825-33, and was a warm friend and supporter of President Jackson. General Drayton was graduated at the United States military academy in 1828, in the class of Jefferson Davis, and was in the service as second lieutenant of S
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Additional Sketches Illustrating the services of officers and Privates and patriotic citizens of South Carolina. (search)
f American independence. Mr. and Mrs. Davis have six living children, three sons and three daughters. Capt. James W. Davis, brother of John C., served during the war as first sergeant of Company B, James' battalion. He led his company in the battle of South Mountain in the absence of the other officers and was there killed September 12, 1862. He left a widow, Mattie Davis, a daughter of Dr. Thomas Ware, one of the signers of the ordinance of secession, and grand-daughter of Major Long of 1776 fame. Robert C. Davis, another younger brother, entered the service in his seventeenth year, in the Seventh South Carolina regiment. He was in command of part of the rear guard on the retreat from Richmond to Appomattox, during which he had his horse killed under him and was himself wounded. He was married in 1868 to Eliza, daughter of Dr. John F. Dorroh, surgeon of the Third South Carolina regiment. His first wife having died, he was married to Miss Zelime, daughter of Dr. Maximilian La