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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 6. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 5 1 Browse Search
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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 6. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Hart's South Carolina battery--its War guidon — addresses by Major Hart and Governor Hampton. (search)
hose who wore the gray. At the close of General McGowan's oration, and as soon as the thunders of applause which followed its completion had subsided, Captain Ellison A. Smyth announced that the dearly-cherished and historic guidon of Hart's battery, tattered and torn and stained with the shot and shell and smoke of an hundred the old battery which bore his name, who, in coming forward, was received with a welcome that must have stirred his heart to the very core Major Hart said: Captain Smyth and Gentlemen of the Washington Artillery: Seventeen years ago occurred in this hall a circumstance connected with your corps which to-day finds a sequel. Neaonly say that their record is known to you and to the State. I have been commissioned by the surviving remnant of those faithful men to place in your hands, Captain Smyth, and that of your gallant old corps, this sacred relic of our past history. We know that it could not find worthier or more faithful guardians. We cannot giv
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)
lder. 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 Charleston for forty-four years, and grandson of James Adger, a prominent merchant of Charleston. At the age of sixteen, in November, 1864, he volunteered in Company B, Third South Carolina militia, as third sergeant, Col. A. D. Goodwyn. In June, 1865, by order of Governor Magrath, he w