hide Matching Documents

The documents where this entity occurs most often are shown below. Click on a document to open it.

Document Max. Freq Min. Freq
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 2 0 Browse Search
View all matching documents...

Your search returned 2 results in 1 document section:

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)
ard at League island, where he succeeded to the command of the boat. His resignation has since been accepted. Benson Coke Jennings Benson Coke Jennings was born in Union, S. C., about 1822. He was the son of Rev. John Jennings, a Methodist clergyman and a native of Orangeburg county, who was born in 1777 and died about 1858. The grandfather of Rev. John Jennings came to South Carolina from Virginia, but the family came originally from England. The wife of Rev. John Jennings was Susannah Hardy, daughter of William Hardy and sister of the late Dr. Hardy, of Asheville. B. C. Jennings was reared in Union county on a farm and adopted the occupation of a farmer for himself. Shortly after the bombardment of Fort Sumter he volunteered and served in a South Carolina company and regiment until September 14, 1864, when he was killed in battle at Petersburg, Va. He was a private and a sharpshooter, and fought in many of the great battles of the army of Northern Virginia. He was twice