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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) 2 2 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), Chapter 3: (search)
on take the flag, seized it, and gallantly going forward, fell mortally wounded. Private Spillman, of Company K, then took the flag and carried it to the final charge in triumph to victory. He was promoted color-bearer on the field for gallant conduct. Among the lamented dead of the First was the gallant and accomplished Lieut.-Col. A. M. Smith, who left a sick bed to take his place in his country's service. In the Twelfth, Colonel Barnes was wounded, but did not leave the field. Lieut. J. W. Delaney, commanding Company B, was killed in the first assault; Captain Vallandingham lost a leg, and Captains Miller, McMeekin and Bookter were wounded. In the Thirteenth, which was mainly in support, the loss was not so heavy, 8 killed and 40 wounded. In the Fourteenth, Colonel McGowan and Maj. W. J. Carter were wounded, as were also Captains Brown, Taggart and Edward Croft, and Lieutenants Brunson, O. W. Allen, Stevens, McCarley, Dorrah and Carter; and the gallant Lieut. O. C. Plunkett, C
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)
was on the coast of South Carolina, and in June, 1862, they were ordered to Virginia. While this regiment was acting as a support to the main army at Frederick City, Md., Mr. Delaney was so severely wounded in the leg that after a short time he was discharged from the service. He was married in 1864 to Miss Rebecca J. Dawkins, and they have six children. After the close of the war he resumed his occupation of planting, in which he has been eminently successful. His elder brother, Dr. John W. Delaney, assisted in raising a company for the Confederate service, of which he was elected first lieutenant, and with which he served in all its battles until Gaines' Mill, where he was killed in action a brave and gallant soldier. Captain Richard Smallwood Des Portes, born at Charleston, September 21, 1841, died at Columbia, January 23, 1898, was a grandson of a hero of Napoleon's Old Guard, who lost his life in the sunken road at Waterloo. His father, Augustus Des Portes, was brought t