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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) 3 1 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 14: (search)
the advancing sap and Federal shells. We extract from the reports and accounts the following incidents: By the explosion of a 15-inch shell and the falling of tons of sand, General Taliaferro was so completely buried that it was necessary to dig him out with spades. During the heaviest period of the bombardment, about 2 p. m., the flag halyards were cut and the flag fell into the fort. Instantly Major Ramsay, Lieutenant Readick, Sixty-third Georgia (artillery), Sergeant Shelton and Private Flinn, Charleston battalion, sprang upon the parapet, raised and refastened the flag. Seeing the flag fall, Capt. R. H. Barnwell, of the engineers, seized a battleflag and planted it on the ramparts. Again the flag was shot away, and Private Gilliland, Charleston battalion, immediately raised and restored it to its place. Lieut. J. H. Powe, of the First South Carolina artillery, so distinguished himself at his gun as to be specially and conspicuously mentioned, with Lieutenant Waties and Ca
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)
two brothers in the Confederate service: Charles R., who enlisted in 1861 as a private in Company E, Eleventh South Carolina volunteers, was captured at Petersburg, in June, 1864, and held until the close of the war. At the time of his capture he was second lieutenant of his company. He is now living at Fort Tampa, Fla. The other brother, Rev. Thomas N., went also into Company E, Eleventh South Carolina volunteers, at the age of fifteen, and served until the close of the war. Reverend John William Flinn, chaplain and member of the faculty of the South Carolina college, is a native of Mississippi, born and reared on the plantation of his father in Marshall county. He was one of the boy soldiers of the Confederacy, entering the service at the age of fourteen years and eight months, in March, 1862, as a private in Company G, Seventeenth Mississippi infantry, then stationed at Yorktown, Va. With this command he participated in the engagements at Garnett's Farm, Savage Station, Frays