Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina
Clement Anselm Evans, Ed.

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[439] Seventh South Carolina cavalry, under Col. J. C. Haskell. In the summer of 1863 Dr. Bacot was detailed to do service in the hospital at Florence, S. C., as assistant surgeon. He remained there until April, 1864, when the squadron was ordered to Virginia, and then he was appointed assistant surgeon of the squadron. He filled that position until the close of the war. He was in many skirmishes and greater engagements, among which was the engagement near Cold Harbor on May 30, 1864, and many skirmishes between the James and the Chickahominy rivers, surrendering at Appomattox. He returned home when the fighting was over, and pursued farming until 1875, when he removed to Charleston, S. C., and was made secretary of the board of health of that city, holding that position three years, and for the four years following his incumbency of that office he was superintendent of the disinfecting department of Charleston. In 1882 he moved to Florence and entered upon the practice of medicine there, which he has been following ever since. He was married, in 1860, to Miss Eliza H. Trenholm, of Charleston. They have six daughters: Daisy S., Portia A., now Mrs. J. H. McClenaghan, of Florence; Anna J., now Mrs. A. H. Hart, of Hartsville, S. C.; Sarah R., Eliza Helen, and Mary Louise. In service with the United Confederate Veterans, he was made adjutant of Pee Dee camp No. 390, United Confederate Veterans, at Florence; also surgeon of the Florence regiment, United Confederate Veterans.

Thomas Pearce Bailey, M. D., a Confederate surgeon and a member of Arthur M. Manigault camp, was born near Charleston, S. C. in 1832. Educated in Charleston and graduating at the medical college of the State of South Carolina, at Charleston, in 1853, he commenced the practice of the medical profession in Charleston county. After a few months he removed to North Santee, Georgetown county, where he practiced until the beginning of the war on the South. From July, 1862, he served as assistant surgeon of the Tenth South Carolina infantry until November, 1862, when he was promoted full surgeon of the same regiment, with which he remained to the close of the war. In his capacity as surgeon he was at the following engagements: Perryville, Ky.; Murfreesboro, Tenn.; Chickamauga, Missionary