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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) 2 0 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)
rning before his leave of absence expired, he took part in the battle of Fredericksburg, and then was on duty in southern Virginia until his brigade was ordered to Georgia under Longstreet. He participated in the operations about Chattanooga and the campaign in east Tennessee, returning to Virginia in time to enter the battle of the Wilderness. At Spottsylvania he performed an act of mingled daring and humanity which is preserved in history and commemmorated by a poem from the pen of John Jerome Runey, a Federal soldier. During the terrific firing along the line of Confederate works, when a moment's exposure meant almost certain death, he heard the moans and incessant calls for water of a Union captain, lying a short distance from the rifle-pit in which he was sheltered. Unable to withstand the appeal to his sympathy, Private Nicholls filled his canteen from the flasks of his comrades, crawled nearly to the dying man, and then fastening the canteen to a stick, succeeded in getting