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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 18: (search)
he 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 lemy 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 Captain Raysor and Lieutenants Reilly, White and Clemens, missing. On the 29th of July, Bushrod Johnson's division was arranged in the works with Ransom's North Carolinians on the left, Elliott'saptain Shedd, held the trenches on the right. The South Carolina troops on that side, said General Johnson, succeeded in placing a barricade on the side of the hill and planting themselves in it andain Shedd's line, which captured three flags and many prisoners. For every buried comrade, General Johnson said, the South Carolinians took a two-fold vengeance on the enemy. In the last charge Ser
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 20: (search)
e returns of August, 1864, show the following South Carolina commands on duty in Virginia: Elliott's brigade of Bushrod Johnson's division, Col. Fitz William McMaster commanding the brigade: Seventeenth regiment, Maj. John R. Culp; Eighteenth, giments, and the valuable services of Adjt.-Gen. J. B. Lyle. Elliott's brigade remained on the Petersburg lines with Johnson's division through the fall and winter, and the reports of General Johnson show that they had almost daily losses in kilGeneral Johnson show that they had almost daily losses in killed and wounded. On the night of October 27th, the enemy carried a part of the picket line of the Holcombe legion, and Gen. W. H. Wallace, then in command of Elliott's brigade, immediately sent forward a force of 200 men from the legion and Eighteenth, Lieut.-Col. Edward Croft; Orr's rifles, Lieut.-Col. J. T. Robertson. Brig.-Gen. William H. Wallace's brigade, of Johnson's division, Lieut.-Gen. R. H. Anderson's corps: Seventeenth, Capt. E. A. Crawford; Eighteenth, Lieut.-Col. W. B. Allison
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Biographical (search)
ting major-general, he commanded a division consisting of the brigades of McGowan, Lane and Bushrod Johnson. On the return of General Mc-Gowan to duty, General Conner was assigned permanently to thecluded the legion. He served actively in the defense of Petersburg, his brigade, a part of Bushrod Johnson's division, holding that important part of the line selected by the Federals as the point tanassas the command of the legion devolved upon him after Colonel Hampton was wounded, Lieutenant-Colonel Johnson killed and Captain Conner disabled. At the reorganization in 1862 he was elected lieg, where Colonel Wallace participated in the defense of the lines and all the operations of Bushrod Johnson's division. His brigade suffered most heavily at the battle of the Crater, four companies tox Court House, on the night of April 8th, he was assigned by General Gordon to the command of Johnson's division, in which capacity he reported to Gen. Clement A. Evans and participated in the last
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 captured and taken to Nashville, and finally to Johnson's island, where he was imprisoned for eighteen montn., June 27, 1863, after which he was imprisoned at Johnson's island until February 4, 1864, and was then held N. C. He surrendered at Greensboro, N. C., with General Johnson. At the battle of Franklin, Tenn., while carinis men and jealous of their rights. As soon as Bushrod Johnson's division of decimated, routed troops could be, and thence was sent to Fort Delaware and later to Johnson's island. In 1864 he was specially exchanged for Mcommissary. He was serving in this capacity in Bushrod Johnson's division at the time of the surrender at Appobattle of Five Forks, and was sent as a prisoner to Johnson's island, where he was held until June 16, 1865. H Bratton, he was transferred to the staff of Gen. Bushrod Johnson, with whom he continued until the surrender ox. On the staffs of Generals Jenkins, Bratton and Johnson, his office was inspector-general, with the rank of