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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)
firmness. Gregg, who was first engaged, fought his way through the tangled wood and the boggy morass to the foot of the main position, when, confronted by a determined and unfaltering resistance, and his lines torn by artillery from the crest in front and by a battery on his right flank, he could make no further progress. Marshall was ordered to take the battery on the right, and advanced gallantly, Perrin's, Joseph Norton's, Miller's and Miles Norton's companies in front, under Lieutenant-Colonel Ledbetter. The battery was withdrawn, but its support in the woods, composed of a strong body of troops, among them the New York Zouaves, held the ground in a fierce combat. The Zouaves attacking on the left flank, Lieutenant Higgins promptly assembled 30 riflemen, and held them in check. The attack being pressed anew, the regiment, having lost 81 killed and 234 wounded out of 537, and being unsupported, was forced to retire to its former position. But Marshall's gallant charge and con
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 7: (search)
was worn out and its last round of ammunition expended. The gallant and heroic Marshall fell in this last conflict, as well as his able lieutenant-colonel, D. A. Ledbetter. Colonels McGowan and Barnes, Lieutenant-Colonel Farrow, and Majors Brockman and McCorkle were wounded and borne from the field. Captains and lieutenants andng the killed and wounded in the reports of McGowan and McCrady, the former reporting for the brigade: Killed: Orr's Rifles—Col. J. Foster Marshall, Lieut.-Col. D. A. Ledbetter, Capt. M. M. Norton and Lieut. W. C. Davis. First—Capt. C. D. Barksdale, Lieuts. John Monro and John C. McLemore, Sergeants Lowrimore, Darby and Smith. d those who received mortal wounds, at Manassas, on the two days of heroic strife, were the following distinguished officers: Col. J. F. Marshall and Lieut.-Col. D. A. Ledbetter, of Orr's Rifles; Col. Thomas J. Glover, of the First South Carolina battalion; Col. John V. Moore, of the Second Rifles; Col. John H. Means, of the Sev
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)
stationed on James island, until the evacuation of Charleston. Colonel Daniel Alexander Ledbetter Colonel Daniel Alexander Ledbetter was born near Pendleton, S.Colonel Daniel Alexander Ledbetter was born near Pendleton, S. C., in what was then Pickens district, in July, 1828, the son of Abner and Sarah (Calhoun) Ledbetter. His father died in 1830 and three years later his mother was mLedbetter. His father died in 1830 and three years later his mother was married to Col. John C. Miller, a farmer of the same district. Young Ledbetter grew up on Colonel Miller's farm, much of the business of which was managed by him whiLedbetter grew up on Colonel Miller's farm, much of the business of which was managed by him while he was yet a boy. His education was limited, the greater part of it being obtained in the schools at old Pendleton. He served an apprenticeship as a millwright ujor. Later, when Colonel Orr was elected to the Confederate States congress, Ledbetter was promoted to lieutenant-colonel. He was never absent from his command exce alarm that the enemy was at hand, and there was a general stampede; but Colonel Ledbetter stood his ground and called again and again till his men rallied to him.