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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[806] in Company A, of the Fifteenth South Carolina regiment, and after considerable service as a private in the line, including the battles of Port Royal, S. C., in June, 1862, and the second battle of Manassas, Virginia, his health gave way to such an extent that he was no longer able to carry a musket at the front and he accepted the appointment of quartermaster-sergeant of the regiment. In this capacity he was with his command throughout the Virginia campaign and was frequently under fire, notably during the retreat from Gettysburg. Since the war he has been a resident of Columbia and as a business man has had a long and successful career. He has also had considerable agricultural interests. As commissioner of Richland county he served one term with much credit. He was married in 1860 to Emma I. Smith, and they have three children: Telula D., wife of Saxby Chaplin; William D., and Lovelace F.

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Joseph Quattlebaum

Joseph Quattlebaum was born in Lexington county, S. C., January 27, 1821, and died at Ridge Springs, S. C., January 6, 1892. He was the son of Capt. John Quattlebaum, who commanded a company in the war of 1812 and was the son of a Revolutionary soldier. His mother was Clara Burkett, whose father was a soldier in the command of Gen. Francis Marion. It will be seen by this that Dr. Joseph Quattlebaum came from a distinctly military family, its members having borne a conspicuous part in the military annals of South Carolina from the time of the Revolution. There were but two of the family in America at the time of the Revolutionary war—two brothers, who had migrated from the north of Germany, both of whom served in the struggle for independence. The family was also represented in the war of 1812, the Seminole war, and twenty-seven of its members volunteered and served in the Confederate army. They were ardent secessionists, and when the war broke out the male members of age all entered the ranks. Among them were Gen. Paul Jones Quattlebaum, Capt. T. A. Quattlebaum, killed at Averasboro, N. C.; Capt. Joab Quattlebaum, killed in battle; Adjt. Dinck Quattlebaum, killed at the battle of the Crater, near Petersburg; and E. R. Quattlebaum, sergeant-major of the Twentieth South Carolina regiment. Dr. Quattlebaum was reared in Lexington county and graduated from the medical