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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 15: (search)
Mississippians and Semmes' and Wofford's Georgians, was the South Carolina brigade of Gen. J. B. Kershaw. Also in the First corps were the batteries of Capt. Hugh R. Garden (Palmetto) and Captain Bachman's German artillery, with Hood's division, and the Brooks (Rhett's) battery, Lieut. S. C. Gilbert, in Alexander's battalion of Walton's reserve artillery. Gen. Micah Jenkins' South Carolina brigade, of Pickett's division, Longstreet's corps, was detached for special duty on the Blackwater, in southeast Virginia, under Maj.-Gen. D. H. Hill. In the Third army corps (A. P. Hill's), South Carolina was represented by McGowan's brigade, Hill's light division —North Carolinians, South Carolinians and Georgians—now being commanded by Pender, and the South Carolina brigade by Col. Abner Perrin. Maj. C. W. McCreary commanded the First regiment, Capt. W. M. Hadden the First rifles, Capt. J. L. Miller the Twelfth, Lieut.-Col. B. T. Brockman the Thirteenth, and Lieut.-Col. J. N. Brown the Fourte
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)
battle of Manassas, the defense of Yorktown, Williamsburg, Seven Pines, Gaines' Mill, Frayser's Farm, Second Manassas, Boonsboro Gap, Fredericksburg, Suffolk, Blackwater, Va., Chickamauga, Ga., Chattanooga, Will's Valley, Lenoir Station, Campbell's Station and siege of Knoxville, up to the winter of 1863. He was then granted a furd. Subsequently he was in the battle of Fredericksburg, in Pickett's division, and after that took part in Longstreet's operations against Suffolk, fighting at Blackwater, and New Hope Church and in the siege of Suffolk. With Jenkins' brigade he went to north Georgia under Longstreet, and participated in the skirmish on Lookout ecember 31st following was promoted to junior second lieutenant. 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 Wil