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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) 15 1 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: February 11, 1862., [Electronic resource] 6 2 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1. 3 1 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 30. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 2 0 Browse Search
A Roster of General Officers , Heads of Departments, Senators, Representatives , Military Organizations, &c., &c., in Confederate Service during the War between the States. (ed. Charles C. Jones, Jr. Late Lieut. Colonel of Artillery, C. S. A.) 1 1 Browse Search
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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., The Confederate Government at Montgomery. (search)
rnment moved from Montgomery 366,000 men, the flower of the South, had tendered their services in the army. Only a small fraction of the number were received. The Secretary was worn out with personal applications of ardent officers, and himself stated that in May, 1861, he was constantly waylaid, in walking the back way from his office to the Exchange Hotel, by men offering their lives in the Confederate cause. Another instance of narrowness may be named in the case of William Cutting Heyward. He was a wealthy rice-planter and an eminently practical and efficient man, a graduate at West Point in the class with Mr. Davis. He went to Montgomery to tender a regiment. He sent in his card to the President and waited for days in the lobby without obtaining an interview, and then returned home. He finally died from exposure, performing the duties of a private in the Home Guard at Charleston. The reason alleged for not accepting more men was the want of arms, and Mr. Davis's book i
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., The opposing forces at Port Royal, November 7th, 1861. (search)
n C. Christ; 100th Pa., Col. Daniel Leasure. Third Brigade, Brig.-Gen. Horatio G. Wright: 6th Conn., Col. John L. Chatfield; 7th Conn., Col. Alfred H. Terry; 9th Me., Col. Rishworth Rich; 4th N. H., Col. Thomas J. Whipple. Unattached . 3d R. I., Col. Nathaniel W. Brown; 1st N. Y. Engineers, Col. Edward W. Serrell; Battery E, 3d U. S. Art'y, Capt. John Hamilton. Confederate land forces, Brig.-Gen. Thomas F. Drayton: 4th Ga. Battalion, Lieut.-Col. W. H. Stiles; 9th S. C. (3 co's), Col. William C. Heyward; 12th S. C., Col. R. G. M. Dunovant; 15th S. C., Col. W. D. De Saussure; Beaufort (S. C.) Guerrillas, Capt. J. H. Screven; Ga. Battery, Capt. Jacob Read; 1st S. C. Militia Art'y (2 co's), Col. John A. Wagener. Loss: k, 11; w, 48; m, 7 = 66. Confederate naval forces, Flag-Officer Josiah Tattnall: Savannah (flag-ship), Lieut. John N. Maffitt; Sampson, Lieut. J. S. Kennard; Resolute, Lieut. J. Pembroke Jones. They were small side-wheel steamers, and each carried 2 32-pounders (sm
A Roster of General Officers , Heads of Departments, Senators, Representatives , Military Organizations, &c., &c., in Confederate Service during the War between the States. (ed. Charles C. Jones, Jr. Late Lieut. Colonel of Artillery, C. S. A.), Regiments, &c., in Confederate service. (search)
62.  Col. T. G. Bacon   9thSouth CarolinaReg.---8th South Carolina VolunteersInfantryCol. John W. HenneganMay 14, 1862.  Col. E. B. Cash   10thSouth CarolinaReg.---9th South Carolina VolunteersInfantryCol. Jno. D. BlandingJuly 12, 1861.  11thSouth CarolinaReg.---10th South Carolina VolunteersInfantryCol. Jno. F. PressleyApril 6, 1863.  Col. A. M. Manigault Promoted Brigadier-General. 12thSouth CarolinaReg.---11th South Carolina VolunteersInfantryCol. F. H. GanttNov. 27, 1862.  Col. Wm. C. Heyward   13thSouth CarolinaReg.---12th South Carolina VolunteersInfantryCol. Jno. L. MillerFeb 27, 1863.  Col. R. G. M. Dunnovant   Col. Dixon Barnes   Col. Cad. Jones   Col. J. L. Miller   Col. E. L. Bookler   14thSouth CarolinaReg.---13th South Carolina VolunteersInfantryCol. B. T. Brockman   Col. O. E. Edwards   Col. J. F. Hunt   15thSouth CarolinaReg.---14th South Carolina VolunteersInfantryCol. Abner PerrinFeb. 20, 1863.Promoted Brigadier-General. Col.
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 2: (search)
n, all well drilled, and a reserve force in the city of 3,000. These forces, with Manigault's, Heyward's, Dunovant's and Orr's regiments, he estimated at about 9,500 effective. On October 1st, Ge 367; Manigault's Tenth, Georgetown and defenses, 538; Jones' Fourteenth, camp near Aiken, 739; Heyward's Eleventh, Beaufort and defenses, 758; cavalry, camp near Columbia, 173; cavalry, camp near Aiounder, rifled. The rest were 42 and 32 pounders; one of the latter fired hot shot. Col. William C. Heyward, Eleventh South Carolina volunteers, commanded at Fort Walker, and Col. R. G. M. Dunova ammunition for all but the 32-pounders exhausted, when, after four hours of hard fighting, Colonel Heyward ordered that two guns should be served slowly, while the sick and wounded were removed fromral Drayton, with a part of Martin's regiment of cavalry, under Lieutenant-Colonel Colcock, and Heyward's and De Saussure's regiments, was watching Bluffton and the roads to Hendersonville. Clingman
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 10: (search)
as in charge. Gen. States R. Gist, on his return from Wilmington, commanded on James island and in St. Andrew's. Fort Sumter, garrisoned by the First artillery, was in charge of Col. Alfred Rhett, and Forts Ripley and Castle Pinckney were commanded by Capt. H. S. Farley. The following South Carolina troops were at this time on duty in the State: Infantry: First regiment regulars, Col. William Butler, Fort Moultrie; Third volunteers, Col. C. J. Colcock, Third district; Eleventh, Colonel Heyward, Third district; Sixteenth, Col. James McCullough, Second district; Twentieth, Col. L. M. Keitt, Sullivan's island; Twenty-first, Col. R. F. Graham, Morris island; Twenty-fourth, Col. C. H. Stevens, Third district; Twenty-fifth, Col. C. H. Simonton, James island; Twenty-sixth, Col. A. D. Smith, Second district; Charleston battalion, Lieut.-Col. P. C. Gaillard, city; Seventh battalion, Lieut.-Col. P. H. Nelson, Second district; First battalion sharpshooters, Maj. Joseph Abney, Third dist
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)
of General Washington. Mr. Jenkins was reared in Colleton county, and when fifteen years of age he entered the Citadel military academy. Hostilities soon afterward beginning, he left his studies and became drillmaster of a company in Col. William C. Heyward's regiment. After the evacuation of Hilton Head he was mustered into the Confederate service as a private in the Charleston light dragoons, Company K, Fourth South Carolina cavalry. With this gallant command he served until the close of tmed command of it in May, and was assigned to take charge of the post on North Edisto island. In September, being promoted major, he was transferred with his company and two others to Otter island, and in November, under orders to report to Colonel Heyward, he abandoned this post, built a fort on Church Flats to which he transferred his guns, and then joined his regiment at Hardeeville. Upon the reorganization of the regiment in 1862 few of the officers were re-elected, and Major Smith was au
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 30. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Graduates of the United States Military Academy at West Point, N. Y., [from the Richmond, Va., Dispatch, March 30, April 6, 27, and May 12, 1902.] (search)
New Mexico. Albert T. Bledsoe. 502. Born Kentucky. Appointed Kentucky. 16. Assistant Secretary of War and Chief of the Bureau of War, colonel, June 23, 1861. Meriwether L. Clark. 609. Born Missouri. Appointed Missouri. 23. Colonel and A. D. C., July 17, 1862. A. D. C. to General Braxton Bragg, Army of the Mississippi. Lloyd J. Beall. 611. Born Rhode Island. Appointed Maryland. 25. Colonel, May 23, 1861. Commanding Confederate States Marine Corps. William C. Heyward. 612. Born New York. Appointed New York. 26. Colonel, commanding Twelfth South Carolina Volunteers and Fort Walker, Port Royal, S. C. Died September, 1863. 1831. Albert M. Lea. 633. Born Tennessee. Appointed Tennessee. 5. Lieutenant-Colonel, January, 1863. Engineer officer to Brigadier-General H. P. Bee. Lucius B. Northrop. 650. Born South Carolina. Appointed South Carolina. 22. Colonel, 1861. Commissary-General of Confederate States Army, 1861-‘64.
The Daily Dispatch: February 11, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 9 (search)
n the afternoon to thirty-two war steamers and transports. on receiving a dispatch to this effect from Colonal William C. Heyward, commanding the troops at Camp Walker, I left my headquarters in Beaufort and repatred by steamer to Bay Point, whi, two companies of Col. Wagoner's 1st regiment artillery, S. C. militia, numbering152 men. Three companies, Col. Heyward's 9th Regt. S. C. V.210 men. Four companies of Col. R. G. M Dunovant's 12th Regt. S. C. V., under Major Jones260 would have arrived sooner, for Gen. A. P. Lawton, commanding Provisional forces in Georgia, wrote from Savannah to Col. W. C. Heyward on the 4th inst., 8.30 P. M. as follows: "From a dispatch received to-day from Gen. Ripley, I infer that you (Colonfforts to save the public property left at the headquarters in Beaufort. I must likewise make honorable mention of Col. W. C. Heyward, 9th regiment South Carolina volunteers, who commanded in Fort Walker and its vicinity, and who, during the battle,