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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[604] Honey Hill and then moved with Taliaferro to Fayetteville, N. C., for much of the time serving as the rear guard of the army. By order of General Johnston he furloughed his command for two weeks at Spartanburg, and before this furlough had expired the army in North Carolina was surrendered. After the war Colonel Goodwyn was engaged in planting mainly, at first for a few years in Kershaw county, then in his native parish until 1888, and subsequently with his home at Columbia. From 1877 to 1890 he held for a second period the position of reading clerk of the senate. He died August 1, 1898, leaving one child, Mrs. T. K. Legare.

Lieutenant David Erwin Gordon is the son of John A. and Sarah (Watson) Gordon, the parents both being descendants of Revolutionary soldiers. On his father's side, his great-grandfather was an officer in Marion's command and suffered from the hands of the Tories. On his mother's side, his grandfather was a Revolutionary patriot and was captured and paroled when Charleston fell into the hands of the British. He is of Scotch descent, his ancestors having migrated from Scotland and settled in South Carolina before the Revolution. He was born in Williamsburg county, S. C., in 1831, and educated at Davidson college, Mecklenburg, N. C., graduating in 1853. He engaged in farming in Williamsburg county until the war began, and in July, 1861, he enlisted in the Ninth South Carolina infantry as a private. After serving six months, which was his term of enlistment, he re-enlisted in Company I, Fourth South Carolina cavalry, Butler's brigade, again as a private, and served about six months, when he was elected lieutenant and was successively promoted through the different grades to first lieutenant, which position he held until the close of the war, being frequently in command of the company. He was in the following engagements: Hawe's Shop, Va.; Old Church, Va.; Deep Bottom, Long Bridge, Trevilian Station, and many skirmishes. At the battle of Trevilian Station, Lieutenant Gordon was captured and taken to Point Lookout and thence to Fort Delaware. He remained at the latter place about two months, when he was taken to Morris island near Charleston harbor, and was there kept for two months under fire in retaliation for Federal officers said to be under fire in Charleston.