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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) 1 1 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), Additional Sketches Illustrating the services of officers and Privates and patriotic citizens of South Carolina. (search)
the Revolution. There were but two of the family in America at the time of the Revolutionary war—two brothers, who had migrated from the north of Germany, both of whom served in the struggle for independence. The family was also represented in the war of 1812, the Seminole war, and twenty-seven of its members volunteered and served in the Confederate army. They were ardent secessionists, and when the war broke out the male members of age all entered the ranks. Among them were Gen. Paul Jones Quattlebaum, Capt. T. A. Quattlebaum, killed at Averasboro, N. C.; Capt. Joab Quattlebaum, killed in battle; Adjt. Dinck Quattlebaum, killed at the battle of the Crater, near Petersburg; and E. R. Quattlebaum, sergeant-major of the Twentieth South Carolina regiment. Dr. Quattlebaum was reared in Lexington county and graduated from the medical department of the university of New York in 1845. He practiced medicine in Orangeburg county until the fall of 1860, when he removed to Fairfield coun