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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[641] Heldman appropriated this to his own use, because his had been reduced to shreds, and when captured he had this blanket with him. With other prisoners he was first taken to Nashville, Tenn. It was very cold, and they were wet from rain and sleet. Many were frozen to death that night, and that would probably have been his fate but for the blanket he had captured from the Federal prisoner. Wrapping it close about him he lay down on broken stone for the night, and in the morning the blanket was frozen stiff and he had to have assistance before he could free himself from it. He took part in the following battles: First Manassas, Jackson, Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, Kenesaw Mountain, Atlanta, Franklin, and Nashville. He had but one furlough during the whole war and that was only for a week. Mr. Heldman located in Spartanburg in 1877, prior to that having lived in Greenville and Anderson. He was married in 1853 to Miss Susan Payne, who died in 1884, leaving no children, and, in 1888, he married Miss Anna Bosse. They have four children, three sons and one daughter. He became a citizen of the United States in 1867, and is one of the most substantial men of Spartanburg, conducting a large and prosperous saddlery business in that city.

Lieutenant Campbell Gilchrist Henderson, master in equity of Colleton county, S. C., was born in Walterboro, February 21, 1839, where he was reared and received his primary education. He graduated with distinction from the South Carolina college at Columbia in 1859, and in 1860 was admitted to the bar. He entered the Confederate service just after the fall of Fort Sumter, enlisting in the Ninth (afterward the Eleventh) South Carolina infantry and was at once made second lieutenant of Company I. He served in this capacity for six months, participating in the battle of Port Royal, and he then enlisted in Company B, Third South Carolina cavalry, and was made second lieutenant, serving as such until the surrender at Greensboro, N. C. He took part in the following engagements: Honey Hill, Pocotaligo, Rivers' Bridge, and Florence, S. C., and many skirmishes in North Carolina. After the close of the war he returned to Walterboro, S. C., and taught school and in 1866 began the practice of law. In 1888 he was appointed master in equity of Colleton county, which office he now holds.