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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) 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)
Subsequently he participated in the several weeks of heavy skirmishing before Suffolk and near Blackwater; was on duty with Jenkins' brigade at Richmond and Petersburg, and in the fall of 1863 accompanied Longstreet's command to Chattanooga. He was in battle at Will's valley, near Lookout mountain, and in east Tennessee took part in the engagements at Lenoir Station and Bean's Station, the siege of Knoxville, and the affairs at Rutledge, Bull's Gap and Dandridge. In January, 1864, Capt. John D. Palmer, of Company H, having for a long time been disabled by a wound received at Second Manassas, and First Lieut. Thomas H. Clarke having been killed at Dandridge, January 17th, and Second Lieut. W. G. Gardner seriously wounded, Lieutenant Welch took command of the company. In May, 1864, the command was sent to Columbia to become mounted infantry, and Lieutenant Welch was detailed as adjutant of the horse detail, about one-third of the legion. On reaching Richmond with their horses late