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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3 4 0 Browse Search
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 1 1 Browse Search
Joseph T. Derry , A. M. , Author of School History of the United States; Story of the Confederate War, etc., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 6, Georgia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 1 1 Browse Search
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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 40: outrages in Kansas.—speech on Kansas.—the Brooks assault.—1855-1856. (search)
hich appeared in a resolution offered by him in jest, and in his vote for Mr. Giddings as chaplain. All agree that he was amiable and friendly in relations with members; His father, Whitfield Brooks, appears to have been impulsive and rash. O'Neall's Bench and Bar of South Carolina, vol. II. p. 474. and he even cultivated association with some Republican members, among them Comins of Massachusetts. Once he paired with Murray of New York. The deed which was to make him famous, or rathereaply won in that war. Brooks's relation to Butler, the senator, was remote, being neither that of son, brother, or even nephew; and he was only the son of Butler's cousin, Whitfield Brooks, father of Preston S., and Butler were cousins. O'Neall's Bench and Bar of South Carolina, vol. i. p. 198; vol. II. p. 473.—a consanguinity so distant as according to common ideas not to call for volunteer enlistment in a personal issue between Butler and another. He was sometimes called Butler's
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)
uth Carolina regiment in the war against Spain. Young John Pope Young John Pope, of the Supreme court of South Carolina, was born in Newberry, April 10, 1841, the son of Thomas H. Pope, in his lifetime conspicuous at the bar of Edgefield and Newberry districts, and his wife, Harriet Neville, daughter of Young John Harrington, for forty years clerk of the circuit court of the Newberry district. He was graduated at Furman university in 1860, and then began the study of law under Chief Justice O'Neall, but closed his text-books in the spring of 1861, to enter the military service of his State. On April 13th he enlisted as second sergeant in Company E, Third South Carolina infantry, at Columbia. In the following June he was promoted to first sergeant; on May 16, 1862, was appointed adjutant of the regiment; and on August 1, 1864, was detailed as assistant adjutant-general of Kershaw's brigade, later commanded by General Conner. In the latter rank he served until totally disabled
Joseph T. Derry , A. M. , Author of School History of the United States; Story of the Confederate War, etc., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 6, Georgia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 8: (search)
a loss of 2 killed and 53 wounded out of 163. The Fifteenth lost 6 killed and 54 wounded. General Hood reported the gallant conduct of the Eighteenth Georgia, which lost 19 killed and 114 wounded, mentioning Col. W. T. Wofford as conspicuous for bravery. Lieut.-Col. S. Z. Ruff and Maj. J. C. Griffis fell severely wounded while nobly discharging their duties. On the 29th the regiment captured a number of prisoners and the colors of the Twenty-fourth New York, Private Northcutt, of Captain O'Neall's company, tearing the colors from the hands of the wounded Federal soldier who refused to yield them. On the 30th the regiment, with the Fifth Texas and Hampton's legion, routed and captured the greater part of the Fifth and Tenth New York, the Eighteenth passing over a battery of four guns in its triumphal progress and capturing the colors of the Tenth New York. Advancing upon a second battery, the regiment was subjected to a flank attack and was withdrawn. Sergeant Weems, the dari