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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) 4 2 Browse Search
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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), Additional Sketches Illustrating the services of officers and Privates and patriotic citizens of South Carolina. (search)
ly conducted the same business in which he was engaged previously, his establishment ranking among the leading manufactories of the kind in the city. Lieutenant Edward H. Barton Lieutenant Edward H. Barton was born in Pickens county, S. C., July 22, 1831. He is the son of Bailey and Jane (Fields) Barton, both of Pickens counLieutenant Edward H. Barton was born in Pickens county, S. C., July 22, 1831. He is the son of Bailey and Jane (Fields) Barton, both of Pickens county, in which he was reared to manhood and where he farmed until July 22, 1861, when he enlisted as a private in Company C, Orr's regiment of rifles, under Capt. Joseph Norton. He was soon promoted to corporal and in the fall of 1861 he was transferred to Company E, Second South Carolina Rifles, commanded by Col. R. E. Bowen. He wBarton, both of Pickens county, in which he was reared to manhood and where he farmed until July 22, 1861, when he enlisted as a private in Company C, Orr's regiment of rifles, under Capt. Joseph Norton. He was soon promoted to corporal and in the fall of 1861 he was transferred to Company E, Second South Carolina Rifles, commanded by Col. R. E. Bowen. He was shortly afterward elected second lieutenant of Company H, of the Second Rifles, and served with it to the end of the war, surrendering at Appomattox. He participated in the battles of Gaines' Mill, Frayser's Farm, Second Manassas, Fredericksburg, Will's Valley, Wilderness, Spottsylvania Court House, Second Cold Harbor and sieg