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J. B. Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's Diary 36 8 Browse Search
Col. O. M. Roberts, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 12.1, Alabama (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 27 13 Browse Search
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 22 4 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 25. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 17 3 Browse Search
Alfred Roman, The military operations of General Beauregard in the war between the states, 1861 to 1865 12 4 Browse Search
Alfred Roman, The military operations of General Beauregard in the war between the states, 1861 to 1865 11 1 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II. 11 1 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 22. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 11 1 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 21. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 9 3 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 8 2 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 17: (search)
uthern Virginia and North Carolina, and Maj.-Gen. Sam Jones succeeded him at Charleston. A week laades were ordered to Richmond. On the 4th General Jones telegraphed to Johnston, I am sending off Virginia. Under this pressure for troops, General Jones requested the mayor to organize the fire bing continued for ten months, on June 13th General Jones addressed the following letter to the Fede Very respectfully, your obedient servant, Sam Jones, Major-General Commanding. General Fostelonels, lieutenant-colonels and majors. General Jones, on July 1st, proposed to General Foster tosed to fire. General Foster replied to General Jones that he fully reciprocated the desire for n a similar position of exposure. To this General Jones rejoined that a removal of the prisoners wmy disappeared. In his detailed report, Gen. Sam Jones said: Officers captured concur in representook com-mand of the department, relieving General Jones, whom he assigned to command of the State,[1 more...]
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Biographical (search)
had command of a brigade composed of Jenkins' Fifth South Carolina and Burt's Eighteenth and Featherston's Seventeenth Mississippi. In the original Confederate plan of battle, July 21st, he was to have taken a prominent part in the fight, but the actual events of the day confined him to demonstrations against the Federal flank. Soon afterward his brigade was composed of the Fourth, Fifth, Sixth and Ninth South Carolina regiments, until February, 1862, when he was assigned to command of Gen. Sam Jones' Georgia brigade. He was in charge of General Magruder's first division, including the Georgia brigade of Robert Toombs and his own under George T. Anderson, during the retreat from Yorktown, and the battles of Gaines' Mill, 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
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)
Chichester was retired on account of an injury received at Battery Wagner. But immediately afterward he was detailed by General Beauregard as judge advocate-general of the department of South Carolina, Georgia and Florida. Upon Captain Gilchrist's subsequent protests that a captain should not be kept from his command, Beauregard recommended his promotion to major, but it was not acted upon. Captain Gilchrist continued on duty at department headquarters under Beauregard's successors, Gens. Sam Jones, A. P. Hill and Hardee, and the latter, reviving the recommendation of General Beauregard, secured the captain's promotion to major. When General Hardee moved out from Charleston to oppose Sherman's advance Major Gilchrist was left at the city, and when the evacuation occurred, on the morning of February 18th, he was left at Charleston with an escort of sixty or seventy men of the Stono Scouts, to observe the enemy's movements, and did not leave the city until the Federal forces entere