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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[674] beginning with the Seven Days fight, Second Manassas, Sharpsburg, Wilderness, and Gettysburg. At the latter battle his company was on the extreme right of the Confederate line and was completely surprised by a detachment of Kilpatrick's Federal cavalry, who had broken through the skirmish lines; but they repulsed the cavalry and saved the Confederate wagon trains, for which they received the thanks of General Lee.

Anton William Jager, for many years a prosperous merchant of Charleston, is remembered by his comrades as a faithful soldier of the Confederacy, who carried the colors of Bachman's battery through the storm of battle, from the beginning to the end of the war. He was born in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, in 1840, to parents of German birth who were naturalized American citizens and were traveling in Germany at that time. From 1849 he was reared at Charleston, and educated, finding employment in youth as a clerk in a dry goods establishment. In the winter of 1860 he entered the military service of the State as a private in the Palmetto Rifles, with which he was on duty during the siege of Fort Sumter. Subsequently he enlisted in the German volunteers, later known as Bachman's battery, and being made color-bearer, promised to carry the colors as long as the battery was in service, a duty which he faithfully performed, though offered a position on the staff of Gen. S. D. Lee at a later date. He acted as courier to Gen. S. D. Lee at Seven Pines, and in several other engagements. Though often exposed to the fire of the enemy, he had the good fortune to escape with slight wounds. After the close of hostilities Mr. Jager resumed his mercantile occupations, and in 1868 established the business which he has ever since conducted. He is a valued member of Camp Sumter, U. C. V., and among the veterans enjoys the reputation of being a gallant and devoted soldier, nobly earned in a brave and unselfish career.

Joseph Allston James, chief surgeon of Kershaw's division, was born in Statesburg, Sumter county, S. C., July 22, 1829. He was educated at the Linden, Ala., academy, took a medical course at Tulane, La., and graduated at the South Carolina medical college at Charleston, in March, 1852. He practiced his profession at Georgetown