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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 8: (search)
ge numbers, and the rush up the mountain in the afternoon almost depleted some commands. Colonel McMaster, reporting the strength of the Seventeenth in the battle, said: In this battle we had engaged 10 officers and 131 men, rank and file, and ambulance corps. General Longstreet, referring in his recent book to the effect upon the troops of the march from Hagerstown, and the marches and countermarches on the mountain, says: It was near night when the brigades under Generals Kemper and Garnett and Colonel Walker (Jenkins') returned from their march down the mountain and reached the top. They were put in as they arrived, to try to cover the right of Rodes and Evans, and fill the intervening space to the turnpike. As they marched, the men dropped along the road as rapidly as if under severe skirmish. So manifest was it that nature was exhausted that no one urged them to get up and try to keep their ranks. . . . The Union brigades were stronger than the Confederates, mine having l
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)
g the pickets, they were immediately driven in, and Garnett and Kemper marched against the advance line in the l, plunged their shell into the ranks of Kemper and Garnett and raked the advancing line of Armistead as it moved up in support. Garnett led his brigade forward against the stone wall and got in advance, and arrived, wihering fire, and in a few moments were abreast with Garnett. At 25 yards from the wall Garnett was shot from ht was too unequal to avail the gallant survivors of Garnett and Kemper and Armistead. Of the three brigades sche fire that shot to pieces the brigades of Kemper, Garnett and Armistead. General Wilcox says that he reachedoad and to the advanced line. Archer's brigade, on Garnett's immediate left, had 13 color-bearers shot one aftigade on his right fought at the stone wall, as did Garnett's and Kemper's and Armistead's, and suffered a like And, indeed, but few did. The loss is reported for Garnett, Kemper, Armistead and Wilcox, but there is no repo
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Biographical (search)
Savage Station and Malvern Hill, and other engagements of the Seven Days before Richmond. In the Second Manassas campaign he commanded a division of Longstreet's corps, Drayton's brigade having been added to the two previously mentioned. He drove the enemy through Thoroughfare Gap, held the extreme right next day, confronting Fitz John Porter, and in the battle of the 30th actively engaged the Federal left. In the Maryland campaign his division, increased by the addition of Kemper's and Garnett's Virginia brigades and Jenkins' South Carolina brigade, had a conspicuous part, winning renown first by the heroic defense of the passes of South mountain, and at Sharpsburg fighting desperately against the advance of Burnside across the Antietam on the Confederate right. After this battle he was promoted major-general. His coolness and excellent judgment as a commanding officer would have doubtless brought still higher honors, but at this time an affection of the heart to which he had
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)
ed by Capt. Elias Benning, as a private, and was at once promoted junior second lieutenant. Eight months later the command was merged in Company G of Hampton's legion, and he was continued in his previous rank. With Hampton's legion he took part in the cavalry engagements at Riddle's shop, Va., in June, 1864; St. Mary's church, Darbytown road, Williamsburg road, and Nine-mile road, October, 1864; Bottom bridge, Double Gates, Deep Bottom, Fussell's mill, Five Forks, Sailor's creek, and the engagements on the retreat to Appomattox, where he was surrendered. While in the infantry he was also under fire for twenty-one days at Battery Wagner. After the close of hostilities he was engaged in farming until his removal to the State capital, where he entered upon the duties of clerk of the loan department of the State treasury. By his marriage, in 1872, to Elizabeth Brook Darby, of his native district, he has five sons: Daniel M., Thomas H., Mercer D., Charles Vedder and Richard Garnett.