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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)
ed north of the James. Hagood's brigade served with distinction in the Petersburg battles of June 16th to 18th, repelling all assaults. Reaching Petersburg from the Drewry's bluff line on the night of the 15th, the brigade pushed out at the City Point road where the Confederates were being driven from the outer intrenchments. Under a fierce shelling on the 16th and 17th, many were killed. Captains Hopkins and Palmer and Adjutant Gelling, of the Twenty-second, were killed by the shells. Lire wounded. The brigade lost about 220 in the three days. On the 24th Hagood's brigade occupied a single line of intrenchments, on the left of the Confederate line, the Twenty-seventh, Twenty-first and Eleventh between Appomattox creek and the City Point road, the Twenty-fifth and Seventh battalion south of the road, facing the enemy, who was intrenched in three lines. At dawn the South Carolinians were told that a general engagement was ordered, which they were to open, after a heavy cannonad
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)
nd also at Hatcher's Run, where he was captured. He was taken to City Point, and while a prisoner there he met a brother who was serving in t Pennsylvania cavalry. The meeting was not a cordial one. From City Point Private Bain was taken to Lookout, where he was held a prisoner f was able to return to South Carolina in 1862, being exchanged at City Point. When convalescent he desired to rejoin his old regiment, but wathe famous cattle expedition of General Butler in the vicinity of City Point. From February 16, 1865, until near the close of hostilities he distinguished by the victory at Trevilian Station and the raid at City Point. The number of battles in which Captain Lowndes and his comrades Federal expedition under General Kautz. As a prisoner of war at City Point, Fortress Monroe, Point Lookout and Fort Delaware, he was the suband Piedmont; also on Hampton's great raid around Grant's army to City Point, where several thousand head of cattle were captured and driven i