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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) 30 0 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), Chapter 16: (search)
teenth corps, Major-General Thomas commanding: Baird's division, 3 brigades, 3 batteries; Negley's hen Ector and Wilson came up, and then in turn Baird and Brannan were driven, artillery and prisoneThomas, met and drove Walker back. Meanwhile, Baird and Brannan were checking and holding Forrest.k carried the position for its whole front and Baird's division followed those on his right in the first attack had been made at about 9:30. General Baird, who received the attack, fixes the hour aederal left flank in front of Kelly's house. Baird's division was in position here, behind breastcribner's brigade and then Starkweather's. General Baird formed his division in two lines, and repoted. Three batteries of artillery belonged to Baird's division, but that general reported that mucenty-fourth South Carolina passed the angle in Baird's line unseen in the thick forest, and his artess to follow the broken and routed columns of Baird, Johnson and Palmer, until night came to give [3 more...]
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)
ia railroad, until in 1858 he was recommended by H. T. Peake, superintendent of the road, whose daughter-in-law he afterward married, as a traveling agent for the Baldwin locomotive works. During this service he gained the warm friendship of Matthew Baird, of that institution, of great value to him in later life. At the time of the crisis of 1860 he was, like many others of South Carolina, opposed to the dissolution of the Union, but when the State had seceded, he earnestly supported her actir of the legislature for three terms. He was a member of Camp Sumter, United Confederate Veterans, and of various other fraternal organizations, and enjoyed the esteem of a wide circle of friends. His widow survives him, and three children: Matthew Baird, Jesse Gilbert, and Mary Louise. Captain Collyar Douglas Barksdale, who was killed at the second battle of Manassas, was born in Laurens county, S. C., October 12, 1828. His father was Allen Barksdale, of Laurens county, a planter, sheri