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

Captain Robert A. Crawford, a prosperous farmer of Chester county, and formerly an officer of the Sixth South Carolina infantry, was born in that county, January 10, 1826, the eldest son of James Dunlap and Mary Denton Crawford. His ancestry is of Scotch-Irish extraction in both branches. His father, a captain of militia and magistrate, was a son of Edward A. Crawford who came with his parents from Pennsylvania at an early day and settled in Lancaster county; his mother was a daughter of Archibald Gill, a native of South Carolina and the youngest of six brothers who were soldiers of the Revolution. Captain Crawford was educated at Davidson college, and after studying medicine with Dr. Gibbs was graduated professionally at Charleston in 1849; but he practiced the profession but a short time and engaged in mercantile pursuits at Chester and at Charleston. He became a member of the Calhoun Guards, at Chester in 1859, and was orderly-sergeant of the company when it entered the active service in 1861. With the Sixth regiment he reached Manassas Junction, Va., just as the Federal army was routed, and later took part in the bloody affair at Dranesville, where the regiment lost 50 killed and wounded out of 360 engaged. At the reorganization he became second lieutenant of Company F, Sixth regiment. At Seven Pines Captain Gaston was killed, and Captain Moore fell early in the Seven Days campaign, so that Lieutenant Crawford was called to the command of his company at Gaines' Mill, and was promoted captain. He was badly wounded in the leg at Second Manassas, and was disabled in consequence for four months, and this was followed by other injuries which compelled his resignation in 1863. Since then he has been engaged in farming, with his home at Smith's Turnout. He was married, in 1849, to Amanda Wherry, who died in 1852; and in 1870 to E. M. Williams, by whom he has four children.

William J. Crawford, one of the leading planters of Fairfield county, S. C., was born at Winnsboro, in 1839, the son of Thomas and Isabella (Bryson) Crawford. His father came to Canada from Ireland, where he remained for six years following the occupation of a stonecutter. After moving to South Carolina, he opened a stone quarry at Winnsboro, where he carried on an extensive business. The foundations of most of the earlier houses