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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), Additional Sketches Illustrating the services of officers and Privates and patriotic citizens of South Carolina. (search)
stian Huck, at Brattonsville, on the night of July 11, 1780, utterly destroying them and turning the tide of battle against the Royal army. Martha, the wife of Colonel Bratton, is no less famed in history, for her defiant patriotism and her courage, when in the hands of an infuriated monster and with a rope around her neck, in refusing to betray her husband. With such ancestry, Mr. Bratton naturally gave his earnest and devoted support to his State in the great struggle of 1861-65, leaving Mount Zion college to enlist in April, 1861. He had volunteered in the State service in the previous January. Becoming a member of Company I, Fifth infantry, he served for a time on the coast, and then went into Virginia, and was badly wounded at the battle of Williamsburg, a fragment of shell tearing away the under muscles of the leg. Left upon the field, he became a prisoner of war and was sent to Clifburn hospital, Washington. Many ladies visited the hospital with dainties for the wounded, a