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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) 4 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 15: (search)
ere is no report given of the particular loss of July 3d in Pettigrew's command, or Trimble's. The three brigades of Pickett lost their brigadiers, nearly every field officer, and nearly or quite 3,000 men. With the failure of this attack, the great contest at Gettysburg was decided. While it was in progress General Stuart, on the rear of General Lee's left, was fighting a great cavalry battle with the main body of General Meade's cavalry. Stuart had the brigades of Hampton, Fitz Lee, Chambliss, W. H. F. Lee and Jenkins. In the battle much of the fighting was at close quarters and with pistol and saber as the charging lines came together. In one of these contacts General Hampton was twice severely wounded. On the day previous, his having been the first of General Stuart's brigades to reach the vicinity of Gettysburg, he was just in time to meet a cavalry force moving from Hunterstown directly against General Lee's unprotected left. After a sharp engagement General Hampton def
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)
ut not being an adherent of the then successful branch of the party, was defeated. Governor Mauldin is a warm friend of his Confederate comrades, and has served with ability as commander of R. C. Pulliam camp, and as chairman of the general committee in charge of the State reunion at Greenville in 1897. By his marriage in 1870 to Eliza Thompson, daughter of Col. John F. Kern, of Laurens county, he has five children living: Caroline Louise, Oscar Kern, William Lawrence, John McHardy and Mary Chambliss. The eldest son served in the war with Spain as captain of the Butler Guards in the First South Carolina volunteers. John C. Maxwell John C. Maxwell, of Greenwood, S. C., was born in Mississippi, November 10, 1837, the son of Robert and Nancy (Chappell) Maxwell, both natives of Newberry county, S. C. They were married in South Carolina and removed to Mississippi in 1835. Returning to South Carolina in 1843, they again settled in Newberry county, where the father died in 1844. Th