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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 16: (search)
the field. General Gist mentioned Maj. B. B. Smith, Capt. M. P. King, and Lieuts. L. M. Butler and J. C. Habersham, of his staff, for efficiency and gallant conduct; Col. C. H. Stevens and Lieut.-Col. Ellison Capers, Twenty-fourth, for the same; and Adjt. J. O. Palmer and Capt. D. F. Hill, of the Twenty-fourth, and other brave and true officers of the same regiment. General Manigault mentioned the following as distinguished for conduct on the field: Col. J. F. Pressley and Lieut.-Col. Julius T. Porcher of the Tenth; Maj. J. L. White and Adjutant Ferrell of the Nineteenth; Capt. C. I. Walker, assistant adjutant-general, and Lieut. William E. Huger, aide-de-camp. These names are given from the reports, but how many are left unmentioned! The men and officers of the line who carried their colonels and lieutenant-colonels and majors and generals forward to victory are worthy of lasting honor. South Carolina has recorded their names on her roll of faithful and devoted soldiers an
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)
ippi, and when Colonel Manigault was promoted to the command of the brigade, he was made assistant adjutant-general on the staff of that officer. In this capacity he was with the brigade in the Kentucky campaign, including the battle of Perryville, and subsequently took part in the bloody battles of Murfreesboro, Chickamauga and Missionary Ridge, and all the engagements between Dalton and Atlanta and the battle of July 22, in front of Atlanta. At the battle of Missionary Ridge, Lieut.-Col. Julius T. Porcher, of the Tenth, was killed, leaving the regiment without that officer or a major. In the following April, Col. James F. Pressley applied to the war department for the appointment of Captain Walker to the lieutenant-colonelcy, urging that he was eminently qualified for the position by education and training, and as an accomplished, hightoned gentleman, who had fought with distinguished gallantry on many battlefields. The fact that Captain Walker was out of the line of promotion t