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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[451] disabled by typhoid fever, but on his convalescence he reported to General Preston at Abingdon, Va., and continued on duty with that commander until surrendered near Wytheville. Among the battles in which he participated were Bulltown, Weston, Farmington, Saltville, Va., and Jackson and Franklin, Tenn. In 1867 Mr. Bays entered the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal church South, and he has ever since devoted his life to this sacred work, preaching in Virginia seven years, in Tennessee twelve years, and then coming to South Carolina. In 1895 he became pastor of Bethel church at Charleston.

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James L. Beckett

James L. Beckett, of Summerville, S. C., was born on John's island, Charleston district, S. C., in 1836. He was educated at Charleston college and graduated in medicine in 1858 at the medical college of the State of South Carolina, at Charleston. He located at Ocala, Fla., but during the winter of 1860-61 returned to South Carolina and entered the Confederate service as a private in Company I, Third South Carolina cavalry. After serving as such for a year he was ordered to report on detail from Beauregard's headquarters, and ordered to general hospital No. 1 at Summerville, S. C., as ward master. There he remained until Charleston was evacuated, when he was ordered to Cheraw and from there to Sumter, S. C., where he served until the close of the war. He remained in Sumter in charge of the hospital and medical stores there until June, 1865, when he returned to Charleston, where he remained about six months, going from there to his old home on John's island. Since 1894 he has been engaged in the practice of his profession at Summerville.

Major Thomas C. Beckham, a respected citizen of York county, was born in Chester county in 1832, the oldest son of Lewis A. and Theo H. (Chisholm) Beckham. His father was a planter and served in the legislature of the State. Major Beckham was educated at the Citadel academy, Charleston, and then became the representative of a Charleston shipping company at Fernandina, Fla. Returning to his home in 1860 on the occasion of his father's death, he remained on account of the exciting war spirit, and enlisted in the Calhoun Guards, a company of the Sixth volunteer regiment. After duty at Charleston harbor and on the coast he went to Virginia,