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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), Chapter 3: (search)
I could be reached by this new advance [coming up the Williamsburg road on his left], and then by a change of front to meet them. This was handsomely done, and sending two companies of the Sharpshooters, Kilpatrick's and Martin's, under Maj. William Anderson, to attack and check the Federal advance, the two regiments were formed across the road, facing south, while Jenkins' adjutant, Captain Seabrook, hurried back for reinforcements. General Anderson, who had led the Fourth and Fifth forwarGeneral Anderson, who had led the Fourth and Fifth forward on Hill's left in the general attack, sent the Fifth to Jenkins, under Lieut.-Col. A. Jackson, the gallant Colonel Giles having been killed; and the Twenty-seventh Georgia was also sent forward to him by General Hill. Before his reinforcements reached him, the Federal advance was so near that their commands and cheers could be heard, and the two regiments had been advanced to within 100 yards of them. The Twenty-seventh Georgia was the first to come up, and being placed on the right, the Sha
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)
iss Nancy Narcissus Nesbitt, who still survives. They have seven living children, four sons and three daughters. William Anderson, M. D., a leading physician of Cherokee county, and surgeon of the camp of Confederate veterans at Blacksburg, was born in Rutherfordton, N. C., November 14, 1847, the only child of Dr. William Anderson and his wife, Mary Frances Bowen. His father was a native of Lisburn, County Antrim, Ireland, who came to Bivinsville, now Glendale, Spartanburg county, S. C., inxt month he died, leaving a young bride and a son subsequently born, the subject of this sketch. On the maternal side Dr. Anderson is descended from revolutionary ancestors. One of these, his great-grandfather, William Twitty by name, is remembered-handed the log fort in which his mother and other women and children took refuge from a party of British and Tories. Dr. Anderson studied under a Mr. Leary, who had been the instructor of Gen. R. E. Lee, and in October, 1864, being nearly seventeen