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Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 1 1 Browse Search
Historic leaves, volume 5, April, 1906 - January, 1907 1 1 Browse Search
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Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Additional Sketches Illustrating the services of officers and Privates and patriotic citizens of South Carolina. (search)
a profitable business at Jonesville. He has served as justice and intendent of the village, and as United States commissioner. In January, 1870, he was married to Ophelia Foster, of Woodstock, Ga. Major James F. Hart, the gallant officer who succeeded Gen. Stephen D. Lee in command of the Washington light artillery volunteers, more generally known as Hart's battery, has been of recent years a citizen of Yorkville, S. C., and prominent as an attorney. He was born in Union county, February 13, 1837, the youngest of eight children of John and Elizabeth (Greer) Hart. His grandparents were Josiah Hart, a native of Virginia who removed to South Carolina between 1740 and 1750, and engaged in planting, and Rev. Thomas Greer, a Baptist minister who was a native of Ireland. Major Hart was graduated at the South Carolina military college in 1857, and after teaching school one year he took up the study of law and was admitted to practice in 1860. When the hostile occupation of Fort Sumt
Historic leaves, volume 5, April, 1906 - January, 1907, Charlestown schools after 1825 (search)
January 30, 1837, Dr. Valentine is authorized to visit the schools and see that all children are vaccinated. He is to present his bill for payment when parents are unable to pay. This vote was passed in consequence of finding that a large number of scholars had never been vaccinated. It was also voted that no children should be admitted into any free school of Charlestown without vaccination certificates, and that no unvaccinated child should be allowed to remain in school after February 13, 1837. From the annual report, read at the May town meeting, we learn that an average of eleven per cent., or over 200 scholars, have been absent from school the past year. This is the cause of moist of the corporal punishment which is inflicted in the schools, as those absent acquire habits which are altogether incompatible with order and discipline. The whole number of scholars on the rolls is 1,781, of whom 294 are in the five districts without the peninsula. The cupola has been rem