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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 0 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)
and Eugene P. Decatur C. Bennett Decatur C. Bennett was one of the many Southern boys who, fired by their love and faith in the cause of the South, left college, farm or home, to fight and if need be die for it. He was the only son of John T. Bennett, a farmer who served his county as a magistrate for forty-five years, and Elizabeth (Gilbert) Bennett. He was reared on the old home plantation and educated by his father, who was a fine Greek and Latin scholar, and at the outbreak of the wBennett. He was reared on the old home plantation and educated by his father, who was a fine Greek and Latin scholar, and at the outbreak of the war was attending the Charleston medical college. Immediately after Fort Sumter was fired upon he left college, returned home, and in August, 1861, at the age of seventeen years, became a volunteer in Company F, Hampton legion. He served throughout the war as a private and participated in the battles of West Point, Second Manassas, Fredericksburg, siege of Suffolk, Will's Valley, Reams' Station, Ridley Shop, and Smith's Store, besides numerous small engagements. After the close of the war he