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The Daily Dispatch: December 24, 1860., [Electronic resource] 2 0 Browse Search
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 1 1 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)
in 1886. Benjamin F., the third son, was reared in Anderson, received his early education in the schools of that place, the Slabtown and Clear Springs academies of Abbeville county. He entered the South Carolina college, where he graduated in 1855; and it is worthy of mention that his father and three of his brothers, Joseph, James and William, were graduates of the same institution. Upon completing his collegiate course, Benjamin F. Whitner began the study of law with his uncle, Gen. James W. Harrison, of Anderson, was admitted to the bar in December, 1857, and began practice at once as the partner of his uncle and preceptor. He was married December 21, 1858, to Miss Anna Church, the youngest daughter of Dr. Church of Athens, Ga., who died February 6, 1876. In October, 1860, he was elected to the lower branch of the State legislature, which legislature passed the bill calling for the convention which enacted the South Carolina ordinance of secession, and Major Whitner voted for
The Daily Dispatch: December 24, 1860., [Electronic resource], Sale of Racing Nags. (search)
Affrays. --An affray took place in Goldsboro', N. C., on the 21st inst., between John Thompson of that place and a Virginian, named Goodwin. Thompson threw a glass at Goodwin, badly cutting his head, and the Virginian, drawing a bowie-knife, nearly severed his antagonist's arm from the shoulder. Neither party was fatally injured. Craft Little was shot and killed at Carnesville. Ga., on the 17th inst., by James W. Harrison, his brother-in-law.