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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 12: (search)
prisoners; bivouacked at 4 a. m., arose at sunrise, and gathered over 800 stand of arms. About noon they marched to a point near the United States ford, and relieved Heth's brigade, and on the 6th, after the heavy rain had ceased, advanced and found there were no Federals on the south side of the Rappahannock. Colonel Henagan's regiment was with General Jackson from the 2d. The loss of Kershaw's brigade was not great, 11 killed and 89 wounded; but the death of Captain Cuthbert and Capt. C. W. Boyd, of the Fifteenth, who fell together before Chancellorsville, par mobile fratrum, was deeply mourned. They were young men of the brightest promise, of commanding talents, high social position, and most attractive personality. General Hooker's loss at Chancellorsville was greater than Lee's. The former lost in both wings, according to his statement before the committee on the conduct of the war, 17,197; by the returns in the War Records, 1,575 killed, 9,559 Wounded, 5,711 prisoners
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 21: (search)
of the South, left Hilton Head with all his available troops, amounting to 5,000 infantry, cavalry and artillery, with 500 sailors and marines, and went by boat to Boyd's Neck, on the south side of Broad river. After landing, Brig.-Gen. J. P. Hatch was put in command, with orders to push forward and cut the Charleston & Savannah General Hatch, finding that the enemy's line could be neither successfully assaulted nor outflanked, retired after dark to a strong position about 2 1/2 miles from Boyd's Neck. Our loss was 88 killed, 623 wounded and 43 missing. Our loss in every arm of the service, General Smith reported, was 8 men killed and 42 wounded. The Carolina brigade. Of his subsequent operations, General Foster reported: From November 30th to December 5th, while keeping the greater part of the force at Boyd's Neck, I made at different points, with the assistance of the navy, several demonstrations, in one of which the Twenty-fifth Ohio marched six miles into the inter
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)
ved as such until the close of the war, at the surrender at Appomattox being a member of Bratton's brigade, Field's division, Longstreet's corps. Since the war his attention has been given to farming. He has represented his county in the State legislature for ten years, and is now master in equity for Newberry county. He was married, December 16, 1869, to Miss Frances B. Sims, who died February 3, 1896, leaving eight children, six sons and two daughters. W. H. S. Harris, commander of C. W. Boyd camp, U. C. V., at Jonesville, was born in Union county, in 1839, youngest child of S. P. and Sophia Harris, also natives of that county. His father was the son of Samuel Harris, a native of Virginia, who came to South Carolina soon after the Revolution, became prominent in the affairs of his county which he served as sheriff, and married Sophia, daughter of Dr. Thomas Hancock, a native of London, England, who survived shipwreck in coming to the United States, and in South Carolina becam