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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) 2 0 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), Additional Sketches Illustrating the services of officers and Privates and patriotic citizens of South Carolina. (search)
about May 1st, they were ordered to Manassas junction, in which vicinity they were on duty for some time, taking part in the battle of Vienna. Returning to South Carolina at the expiration of enlistment, Mr. Scaife assisted in organizing a company at Union, which became known as the Macbeth light artillery, of which he was elected a lieutenant. With this battery he took part in the battle of Secessionville, and reaching Virginia after the Seven Days campaign, was in the engagement at Grave Yard hill, and the Maryland campaign. At Second Manassas the Macbeth artillery by its rapid and accurate firing did more than any other command to break Fitz John Porter's division, marching in three solid columns against Jackson's battle-worn and battle-thinned command. At the battle of Sharpsburg the company for a time unsupported held their ground with a valor that elicited much commendation. In this action a shell from the enemy exploded one of their ordnance caissons, destroying two hundr