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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[885] 1862, while on a scouting expedition along the Potomac river, and was imprisoned for four months, three in the Old Capitol prison, Washington, and one at Fort Delaware. While in prison he missed the Yorktown campaign and the Seven Days battles. He was exchanged on August 5, 1862, in time to take part in the second battle of Manassas. He afterward fought at Ox Hill and Sharpsburg, and upon the day following this battle, after having recrossed the Potomac, he was wounded slightly by a ball in the right leg, but lost no time from its effects. He then fought at Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, the Wilderness, Chickamauga, Will's Valley, Knoxville, Spottsylvania Court House, Second Cold Harbor, and also about Petersburg. He took part in all the fights in which Hood's brigade participated, never had a furlough, and never lost any time on account of sickness. After the war Mr. Trowbridge located at Abbeville, S. C., engaged in mercantile business and later removed to Greenville, and in 1880 to Anderson, where he has since resided, being engaged in a general brokerage business. He is a member of Stephen D. Lee camp, U. C. V., of Hood's brigade association. He was married in Abbeville S. C., November 9, 1865, to Mrs. Jessie Chalmers, Nee Ramey, and they have four living children, two sons and two daughters. Both sons, Samuel R. and Joseph N., were members of the Second South Carolina regiment in the war with Spain.

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Captain George Tupper

Captain George Tupper, of Summerville, past commander of Gen. James Conner camp, U. C. V., was born in 1839, at Charleston, and was there reared and educated. At the time of the secession of the State he was a student of law, and a member of the Charleston light dragoons. At the moment when the convention adopted the ordinance, December 20, 1860, he was stationed at St. Andrew's hall as a dispatch bearer for the Charleston Courier, and, after conveying the news, was one of seven men who fired a salute of seven guns in front of the old postoffice, firing the third gun. He was on duty with the dragoons until after the fall of Fort Sumter, serving as a riding vidette on Sullivan's Island at the firing of the first gun, and was one of twelve men who volunteered to relieve the exhausted gunners in the floating battery. At the organization of the South Carolina Rangers he became