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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 14: (search)
unearthed again by the advancing sap and Federal shells. We extract from the reports and accounts the following incidents: By the explosion of a 15-inch shell and the falling of tons of sand, General Taliaferro was so completely buried that it was necessary to dig him out with spades. During the heaviest period of the bombardment, about 2 p. m., the flag halyards were cut and the flag fell into the fort. Instantly Major Ramsay, Lieutenant Readick, Sixty-third Georgia (artillery), Sergeant Shelton and Private Flinn, Charleston battalion, sprang upon the parapet, raised and refastened the flag. Seeing the flag fall, Capt. R. H. Barnwell, of the engineers, seized a battleflag and planted it on the ramparts. Again the flag was shot away, and Private Gilliland, Charleston battalion, immediately raised and restored it to its place. Lieut. J. H. Powe, of the First South Carolina artillery, so distinguished himself at his gun as to be specially and conspicuously mentioned, with Lieut
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)
rendered with Johnston at Greensboro. He participated in the following engagements: Bombardment of Fort Sumter, Bermuda Hundred, Plymouth, N. C., siege of Petersburg, Fort Fisher, N. C., and Bentonville, N. C. After the surrender he returned to Lexington county and resumed the practice of his profession at Batesburg, where he has maintained a successful and lucrative practice since. He was married in 1879 to Miss Mary Youngblood, of Edgefield county, and they have five children: John, James Shelton, Louis Wigfall, Thomas Halsey and Mary Eliza. He is commander of James Conner camp, U. C. V., at Batesburg, and a member of the Masonic fraternity. Colonel Anthony Cook Fuller, one of a family of Confederate brothers, was born in Laurens county, S. C., February 10, 1825. His father, Alsey Fuller, was a successful and wealthy planter, a prominent citizen of Laurens county, and a member of the South Carolina nullification convention of 1832. His mother was Anna Jane Cook, daughter of