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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)
by Col. J. N. Brown, of the Fourteenth regiment. There rest his noble ashes. No braver soldier, more honorable citizen, kinder father and husband, gave his life to the lost cause. He was laid to rest with no shroud except a gray uniform, no protection but a blanket wrapped around him by his neighbor and friend, Colonel Brown. A beautiful monument, erected by his widow and children, now adorns his grave. J. D. W. Leitner, leading planter and ginner of Jennings, S. C., was born in Richmond county in 1841, the son of D. W. and Martha P. (Lever) Leitner. His father was a farmer, and served a short time in the Confederate army toward the close of the war. At the outbreak of hostilities Mr. Leitner left his home and enlisted in a company of Kershaw's brigade and was serving with that command on the South Carolina coast during the bombardment and fall of Fort Sumter. In June, 1861, he was discharged and at once joined Company C, of the Second South Carolina cavalry. The first serv