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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), Chapter 3: (search)
field, and crossed White Oak swamp. Sumner speaks of the assault by Kershaw and Semmes as being met by Bums' brigade, supported and reinforced by two lines in reserve, and finally by the Sixty-ninth New York (Irish) regiment. He also speaks of Brooks' brigade holding a wood on the left, doing excellent service, and though wounded, keeping his command until the close of the battle. He says the action was continued with great obstinacy until some time after dark, when we drove the enemy from the field. It is evident that Kershaw attacked Generals Burns and Brooks, the Sixty-ninth New York, and two lines in reserve. The reader may determine whether Kershaw and Semmes were driven from the field of Savage Station. Sumner, having successfully guarded the passage of White Oak swamp by his unequal battle with Kershaw's and Semmes' brigades and Kemper's battery, followed Heintzelman's retreat at night, and crossing White Oak marched to Glendale, near the junction of the Charles City an
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 18: (search)
At the battle of Drewry's Bluff, May 16th, according to General Beauregard's report, Hagood and Bushrod Johnson were thrown forward and found a heavy force of the enemy occupying a salient of the outer line of works. . . . Hagood with great vigor and dash drove the enemy from the outer lines in his front, capturing a number of prisoners, and in conjunction with Johnson, five pieces of artillery. He then took position in the works. The casualties of the brigade were 433 out of 2,235. Captain Brooks, of the Seventh, received three severe wounds. Fifty-seven bullet marks were found upon the flag of the Seventh battalion after the fight, and in one of its companies 19 were killed and 46 wounded. It was by such heroic fighting that Petersburg and Richmond were held in May, 1864. Brig.-Gen. Stephen Elliott reported a severe fight on June 2d, in which the Seventeenth and Twenty-second South Carolina were engaged, and the latter regiment lost its colonel, O. M. Dantzler, who fell mort
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Biographical (search)
he continued his association with the militia and attained the rank of major-general. When war began with Mexico he went to the front as lieutenant-colonel of the Twelfth United States infantry, and served with distinction, earning promotion to colonel, and remained in Mexico a year after the close of the war, as military governor of one of the provinces. Then returning home he resumed the practice of law, was elected solicitor of the southern circuit, and in 1856, upon the death of Preston S. Brooks, was chosen as the successor of that gentleman in Congress. Upon the secession of the State he promptly resigned and was appointed commander-in-chief of the South Carolina army, with the rank of major-general. In this capacity, and waiving all questions of rank and precedence, at the request of Governor Pickens, he served upon the coast in hearty cooperation with General Beauregard, sent there by the provisional government of the Confederate States. At a later date he was commission
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)
is association with the college he was first lieutenant of the University Riflemen, a finely equipped organization, and immediately after his graduation he joined Brooks' troop of cavalry, of the Hampton legion. The troop subsequently was known as Company K, Second South Carolina cavalry, commanded by Col. M. C. Butler. He was pd a sister of this general after the close of the war, and had one son, Whitfield Brooks. The latter married Mary Parsons Carroll, and one of their sons was Preston S. Brooks, congressman previous to the Confederate era. James Carroll Brooks, father of Ulysses Robert, married a daughter of Col. U. M. Robert, of Mount Pleasant, Bar Captain Wesley S. Pitts, of Laurens county, S. C., was born in Newberry county, S. C., June 20, 1840, the son of Moses Pitts, of Newberry county, and Lucinda (Brooks) Pitts. His father died in 1848 and his mother in 1854. He was reared on a farm in Newberry county, where he received his early education, and in January, 1861,