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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) 8 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), Chapter 8: (search)
ounded, and Lieut. H. F. Scaife and 15 of the battery more or less severely wounded. Sergt. B. T. Glenn continued to work his piece long after receiving a very severe wound. Captain Boyce mentions all his officers, Lieutenants Jeter, Porter, Scaife and Monro, and Sergeants Glenn, Humphreys, Bunch, and Young, and Corporals Rutland, Byrd, Watts and Schartle; and Privates Scaife, Garner, Hodges, Shirley, Simpson, Gondelock, A. Sim, L. H. Sims, Willard, Peek, Gossett and Franklin, for distinguiPrivates Scaife, Garner, Hodges, Shirley, Simpson, Gondelock, A. Sim, L. H. Sims, Willard, Peek, Gossett and Franklin, for distinguished gallantry in the battles from the Rappahannock to Antietam. Colonel McMaster, of the Seventeenth South Carolina, Evans' brigade, reports that he carried into the battle only 59 officers and men, so great had been his losses from sickness and wounds and straggling. Out of these he lost 19 in battle. There are no separate returns of the losses of Evans' brigade at Boonsboro gap and Sharpsburg, but in these two they are reported as follows: Holcombe legion, 18 wounded; Seventeenth, 18 k
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)
body to go to Virginia. Reaching there about May 1st, they were ordered to Manassas junction, in which vicinity they were on duty for some time, taking part in the battle of Vienna. Returning to South Carolina at the expiration of enlistment, Mr. Scaife assisted in organizing a company at Union, which became known as the Macbeth light artillery, of which he was elected a lieutenant. With this battery he took part in the battle of Secessionville, and reaching Virginia after the Seven Days camp company for a time unsupported held their ground with a valor that elicited much commendation. In this action a shell from the enemy exploded one of their ordnance caissons, destroying two hundred rounds of ammunition and killing one man. Lieutenant Scaife was knocked from his horse and was picked up unconscious and supposed to be dead, but he soon recovered and took his place in the fight. He participated in the fight at Kinston, N. C., and aided by one of his comrades fired the bridge ove