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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 7: (search)
his retreat was secured to him. Lee's victory was complete. But it had been won by a mighty sacrifice of human life. South Carolina had laid down her noble sons in costly sacrifice. Her brigades and regiments in that great battle had given their very best. Among the gallant dead, and those who received mortal wounds, at Manassas, on the two days of heroic strife, were the following distinguished officers: Col. J. F. Marshall and Lieut.-Col. D. A. Ledbetter, of Orr's Rifles; Col. Thomas J. Glover, of the First South Carolina battalion; Col. John V. Moore, of the Second Rifles; Col. John H. Means, of the Seventeenth; Col. J. M. Gadberry, Eighteenth; Lieut.-Col. Francis G. Palmer, of the Holcombe legion, and many other gallant spirits. Brigadier-General Jenkins was wounded at the head of his brigade and over 400 of his officers and men killed and wounded. Col. H. L. Benbow, Twenty-third South Carolina; Maj. W. J. Crawley, of the Holcombe legion, and other field, staff and com
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 13: (search)
recently enlisted negroes. With three armed steamers he ascended the South Edisto under the cover of a dense fog, until arrested at Willtown bluff by the obstructions in the river. Landing at that point a force of 100 or more Confederates, a section of artillery, without infantry supports, was surprised in camp and driven off, 2 men being taken prisoners. Removing the obstructions, Colonel Higginson steamed up the river with the purpose of burning the railroad bridge at Jacksonboro. At Dr. Glover's plantation, about 3 miles from the bridge, he encountered a section of Capt. George Walter's battery, under Lieut. S. G. Horsey, and after an action of an hour's duration the boats were beaten and turned down stream. Col. H. K. Aiken, commanding the Second military district, sent a section of the Marion artillery, Lieut. Robert Murdoch, to the plantation of Mr. Gibbes, below; and being joined at this point by Lieutenant White, with the section which had been surprised at Willtown bluff,
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)
e removed to Anderson county and he sleeps peacefully at Mountain Creek cemetery. Colonel Thomas Jamison Glover Colonel Thomas Jamison Glover was born in Orangeburg, S. C., July 30, 1830. He wColonel Thomas Jamison Glover was born in Orangeburg, S. C., July 30, 1830. He was educated at the schools of Orangeburg and at the South Carolina college, where he graduated with second honors in a class of about sixty in 1849. He immediately took up the study of law, was admudge Whitner, of South Carolina, and they had one son, Thomas J., Jr., who died May 20, 1895. Mrs. Glover still lives in Virginia. Colonel Glover was a member of the State legislature that called thColonel Glover was a member of the State legislature that called the secession convention of 1860. B. J. Gold, since 1876 one of the leading citizens of Blacksburg and vicinity, is a native of North Carolina, born in Cleveland county, December 11, 1845. He is a snd at Greenville, S. C., where he died in 1872. Of Judge Whitner's three sons-in-law, one, Thomas J. Glover, of Orangeburg, entered the war as lieutenant-colonel of the First South Carolina regiment,