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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[803] at Appomattox, Lieutenant Porter rode from Highbridge to Franklin county, Va., and a few days later back to South Carolina. His military service brought him into many of the most famous campaigns and battles of the war, and his every effort was to perform faithfully his duties as a Confederate officer. Among the engagements in which he participated were: Second Manassas, Boonsboro Gap, Sharpsburg, Brandy Station, Kelly's Ford, Gettysburg, the Wilderness, Spottsylvania, Hawe's Shop, Trevilian Station, Catlett's Station, Reams' Station, Yellow Tavern, Jack's Shop, and Nance's Shop, Cedar Run, New Creek, and on the Petersburg lines. He was with Rosser on his famous raid upon the Baltimore & Ohio railroad shops and stores at New Creek and Piedmont; also on Hampton's great raid around Grant's army to City Point, where several thousand head of cattle were captured and driven into the Confederate lines. At Hawe's Shop his sword was shot from his side by a piece of shell, his horse and himself being slightly wounded. Since the close of the war he has resided at Charleston, mainly engaged as a bank clerk until 1878, since when he has been in the engineer service of the United States government. Lieutenant Porter is a son of the late Gov. William D. Porter. He was married in January, 1867, to Elizabeth T., daughter of David Jennings, and they have one son, David Jennings Porter.

James Harrington Powe, born in Marlboro county, S. C., April 11, 1835, was the son of Dr. Thomas E. and Charlotte (Harrington) Powe. His ancestors on both sides migrated from England to Virginia in the early part of the eighteenth century, and removed from there to South Carolina in 1735. Thomas E. Powe, the great-grandfather on the paternal side, was a Revolutionary soldier, holding the position of commissary-captain. On the maternal side his great-grandfather was Gen. Henry W. Harrington, one of the Southern generals in the Revolution. Captain Powe, whose Confederate career is here briefly sketched, was educated in the schools of Cheraw and at the South Carolina college, until he received the appointment of cadet at the West Point military academy. He did not complete the course at West Point; but, returning home, took up the study of medicine, graduating at the Charleston medical college in 1858. He commenced