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William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman . 10 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) 9 1 Browse Search
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Battles 2 0 Browse Search
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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 11. (ed. Frank Moore) 2 0 Browse Search
Edward Alfred Pollard, The lost cause; a new Southern history of the War of the Confederates ... Drawn from official sources and approved by the most distinguished Confederate leaders. 2 0 Browse Search
Capt. Calvin D. Cowles , 23d U. S. Infantry, Major George B. Davis , U. S. Army, Leslie J. Perry, Joseph W. Kirkley, The Official Military Atlas of the Civil War 1 1 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 21: (search)
lle, while part of his force observed the Federal movements on the Georgia side. On the 28th he reported the enemy crossing and advancing toward Robertsville. After a brisk skirmish near Loper's cross roads, he fell back toward Rivers' and Buford's bridges on the Big Salkehatchie, early in February. Sherman declares that his real march began on the 1st of February. All the roads northward had been held for weeks by Wheeler's cavalry, who had felled trees, burned bridges and made obstructionBuford's bridge, Kilpatrick to Blackville, and Howard to cross the Salkehatchie and move for Midway on the South Carolina railroad. The enemy held the line of the Salkehatchie in force, having infantry and artillery intrenched at Rivers' and Buford's bridges. The former was carried February 3d by two divisions of Blair's corps, who waded the swamp and turned Mc-Laws' position, compelling him to retire toward Branchville, behind the Edisto. McLaws reported, It was with difficulty that my comman
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)
y, S. C., May 16, 1836. He was educated at the Arsenal, a military school at Columbia, S. C., and after leaving school entered the mercantile business at Buford's Bridge, S. C., and was so engaged at the time the war began. He entered the Confederate service in the spring of 1862 as lieutenant in Company G, Seventeenth South Carassas, South Mountain, Sharpsburg, Kinston, N. C.; Goldsboro, N. C.; siege of Petersburg, and battle of the Crater. After the close of the war he returned to Buford's Bridge and again engaged in the mercantile business. In 1883 he removed to Bamberg where he has since resided. At the formation of the county of Bamberg in 1897 heand in 1872 he was married to Miss Alice V. Alexander, and they have ten children. Walter Scott Hay, a prominent physician of Allendale, S. C., was born at Buford's Bridge, Barnwell county, February 25, 1848. He is a descendant on his father's side of Col. A. Hawks Hay, of Haverstraw, N. Y., who married the daughter of Chancell