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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) 6 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), Chapter 21: (search)
Green's Cut station, Ga., at which Generals Beauregard, Hardee, D. H. Hill and G. W. Smith were present. It was estimated that the forces available to meet Sherman, Lee's corps of the army of Tennessee having arrived, and Cheatham's and Stewart's being on the way, had the following effective strength: Hardee's command, regular infantry, 8,000; militia and reserves, 3,000; light artillery, 2,000; Butler's cavalry division, 1,500; total, 14,500. Militia and reserves under Generals Smith and Browne, 1,450. Wheeler's cavalry, 6,700. Army of Tennessee: Lee's corps, 4,000; Cheatham's corps, 3,000; Stewart's corps, 3,000; artillery, 800; total, 10,800. Grand total, 33,450. On, account of the absence of most of the army of Tennessee, it was deemed inadvisable to give battle at the important point of Branchville; but it was determined to hold the Combahee as long as possible, while Hardee should fall back on Charleston, and Wheeler on Columbia. Lee's corps was ordered to Branchville, wh
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)
ed upon between Johnston and Sherman, and the war east of the Mississippi was ended. Mr. Brown returned to Charleston and engaged in merchandising for twenty years and then retired from active business and has since lived a quiet life. Julius Petsch Browne Julius Petsch Browne, of Charleston, a merchant of prominence, has an honorable record as a Confederate soldier identified with that of the Fifth South Carolina cavalry. He was born at the city of his present residence in 1836. The crJulius Petsch Browne, of Charleston, a merchant of prominence, has an honorable record as a Confederate soldier identified with that of the Fifth South Carolina cavalry. He was born at the city of his present residence in 1836. The crisis of 1860-61 found him a member of the Vigilant fire company, which was converted into the Vigilant Rifles, and with this command he went into the State service in December, 1860, as second sergeant. With his company he was on duty during the firing on Fort Sumter and the surrender of that fortress to the Confederate States, and after the Rifles were disbanded he enlisted as a private in the South Carolina Rangers, with which he was identified throughout its entire career, first as an in