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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 20: (search)
m the division of W. H. F. Lee, Rosser's and Dearing's brigades, and 100 men from Young's and Dunovant's brigades, under command of Lieutenant-Colonel Miller, Sixth South Carolina. Moving down Rowanty creek to Wilkinson's bridge the first day, General Hampton next found it necessary to pass to the rear of Grant's army and force his lines at some point. He selected Sycamore church, Prince George county, as his point of attack, and before night of the next day had his men on the Blackwater at Cook's bridge, where he believed the enemy would not be looking for him, the bridge having been destroyed. After constructing a new bridge, he crossed at midnight, and his force advanced in three columns, one under Lee, another under Dearing, while Hampton himself, with the commands of Rosser and Miller, moved directly on Sycamore church. Each column was successful in its attack early in the morning, though stubbornly resisted, and Rosser pushed on and secured the cattle, 2,486 in number, and ev
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)
Captain Franklin G. Fuller Captain Franklin G. Fuller, of Laurens county, S. C., was born in that county November 14, 1822, the eldest son of Alsey and Anna Jane (Cook) Fuller. His great-grandfather was a brother of the famous navigator, Capt. James Cook. Dr. Fuller was reared on the old home plantation now owned by him, and received his education in the old field schools and at the Laurens academy. In 1843 he graduated from the Charleston medical college and at once began the practice of h became one of the leading merchants a director of various railroads, and president of the Southwestern telegraph company. Ancestors still more remote on the maternal side were among the first settlers of Rhode Island, his greatgreat-grandfather, Cook, being the first governor of that colony. Major Mowry, as he is familiarly known, was educated at the Cheraw institute in his youth but at the age of seventeen years, in October, 1863, he entered the military service of his State, enlisting at th