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The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 8: Soldier Life and Secret Service. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 8 0 Browse Search
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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along the Potomac about the Chain Bridge were roused to a sudden thrill of excitement at the roar of cannon in brisk action on the Lewinsville road. General Baldy Smith had sent out a reconnaissance. It had stumbled into a hornet's nest of Confederates; it needed help, and Griffin's regulars galloped forward and into battery. Fo be imperiled—a lesson must be taught. A patrol had come upon a young Vermonter asleep on post. A court martial had tried and sentenced, and to that sentence General Smith had set the seal of his approval. For the soldier-crime of sleeping on guard, Private Scott was to be shot to death in sight of the Vermont brigade. A gravwere to die in the same fight only a few miles farther out, at Chantilly. Only for a day or two did the Badgers, the Vermonters, and the Knickerbockers of King's, Smith's, and Stevens' brigades compare notes with the so-called California Regiment, raised in the East, yet led by the great soldier-senator from the Pacific slope, bef
preads were freely contributed, and buggy lap-robes and pianos and tables were despoiled of their oilcloth covers to fend the rain from the men gone from the homes to do battle for the cause, which was even dearer to the women left behind, who were steadfast to the end. These conditions applied also in States farther south, as the Mississippi photograph above witnesses. Standing at the left is James Cunningham; on the camp-stool is Thomas W, Falconer, and to his left are James Sims and John I. Smith. Some of the early organizations were quite erratic; for a while, legions were a good deal in favor—mixed bodies comprising the several arms of the service under one command. These were speedily abandoned as unwieldy and inoperative. They probably had their origin in tradition, dating back to the days of Marion and Sumter and Light Horse Harry Lee, and may possibly have been effective in the partisan operations of that period. Otherwise, the regiments hurried to the front were thr
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)
ed in farming mainly until 1876 when he began a very successful career as a merchant at Clover, which continued for fifteen years. In 1889 he was one of the organizers of the Clover cotton manufacturing company, of which he was the first president and is still a prominent stockholder. By his marriage in 1867 to Frances, daughter of Alexander B. Brigham, a Confederate cavalry soldier, he has three children: M. L., James R. and William P. Mr. Smith had two brothers in the Confederate war: John I. Smith, now a merchant at Clover; and Robert P. Smith, now a resident of Texas, both of whom served in his company and were so fortunate as not to receive a wound. After the death of his first wife in 1875, Mr. Smith married Elizabeth P. Brigham, her sister, in 1877. Ellison A. Smyth, president and treasurer of the Pelzer manufacturing company, was born in Charleston, S. C., October 26, 1848, being the son of the Rev. Thomas Smyth, D. D., pastor of the Second Presbyterian church of Charlest