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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)
ectiles had been fired at Sumter, of which 19,808 had struck. During the same time 38 men had been killed and 142 wounded. On Christmas day an artillery attack was made upon the United States gunboat Marblehead, lying off Legareville, by Col. P. R. Page, but with the assistance of the Pawnee the vigorous efforts to capture the vessel were repelled. During all this period Forts Moultrie, Johnson, Simkins, Cheves and other batteries, maintained an effective fire upon the enemy's works and s reinforced by Colonel Tabb with a battalion of the Fifty-ninth Virginia and the Marion artillery. On the morning of the 10th, Jenkins was reinforced by Charles' South Carolina battery and a battalion of the Twenty-sixth Virginia, under Col. P. R. Page, who took command until General Wise came up and retired the forces to a more advantageous position, across the Bohicket road. Part of Colquitt's Georgia brigade soon arrived, and a strong line was formed. The enemy's advance was met by th
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)
At the beginning of the war of the Confederacy he was commissioned assistant surgeon, P. A. C. S., and assigned to duty at Manassas Junction, where he served on the staff of Dr. Williams, medical director of General Johnston's army. He was subsequently on duty as assistant surgeon, and afterward surgeon in charge at the South Carolina hospital, Manchester, Va., until after the battles before Richmond, 1862, when he was commissioned surgeon and assigned to the staff of the distinguished Commodore Page, Confederate States navy, at Chapin's bluff, James river, below Richmond. But desiring more active duty he obtained a transfer, and was appointed surgeon of the Hampton legion infantry, Col. M. W. Gary commanding, Jenkins' brigade, Longstreet's corps, army of Northern Virginia, and was on duty with this command in the Suffolk and Blackwater campaign, about Petersburg and Richmond, in 1863; at Chickamauga and during the investment of Chattanooga, and through the campaign in east Tenness