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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) 10 10 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 35. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 1 1 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: November 18, 1861., [Electronic resource] 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), Additional Sketches Illustrating the services of officers and Privates and patriotic citizens of South Carolina. (search)
hich time he has resided on his farm near Greenwood, S. C., a considerable portion of which is in thd Elizabeth (Wier) Blake, was a native of Greenwood, S. C., where he was reared and educated. He waied in 1872 to Miss Ludie C. Merriman, of Greenwood, S. C. Mrs. Coleman is president of the federatier 29, 1898, to Miss Annie L. Cothran, of Greenwood, S. C. George W. Earle George W. Earle, ofcCaslan Captain Robert F. McCaslan, of Greenwood, S. C., was born in Abbeville county, September John C. Maxwell John C. Maxwell, of Greenwood, S. C., was born in Mississippi, November 10, 18umbia removing to Charlotte, and later to Greenwood, S. C. After the close of hostilities he embarkes mustered out, after which he located at Greenwood, S. C., where he is now engaged in his professioCaptain Creswell A. C. Waller was born in Greenwood, S. C., June 22, 1839, the son of Albert and Janstockraiser, and has lived on a farm near Greenwood, S. C., since 1875. He is a member of D. Wyatt
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 35. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The surrender of Gen. R. E. Lee. (search)
s a few Northern and Western people, as to whether General Robert E. Lee offered to surrender his sword to General U. S. Grant on the 9th day of April, 1865, at Appomattox, Va., and have been surprised to find that nine out of ten, including some old Confederate veterans, positively state that Lee did offer his sword to Grant, and that the latter was magnanimous enough to refuse it. The following, taken from the Confederate Veteran, Vol. VIII, May, 1990, page 204. J. F. J. Caldwell, of Greenwood, S. C., says: I wish to call attention to the story of General Grant's refusal to accept the surrender of General Lee's sword at Appomattox, a story without a particle of foundation in fact and utterly unreasonable, yet widely circulated by Northern speakers and writers, and credited by a good many people in the South. The account of the ceremonies attending the return of the flag of the Eighth Texas Cavalry, in the Veteran of December, 1899, reports Governor Sayers as saying: And fin
The Daily Dispatch: November 18, 1861., [Electronic resource], The very latest. (search)
. Va., Guerrillas, Fairfax county, taken at Vienna, July 16th. George Howard, 1st Va. Cavalry, Baltimore, taken near Lewinsville, Sept. 16th. J. B. Driscoll, ditto, Shepherdstown, taken near Munson's Hill. Lieut. A. J. S.gler, ditto, Rockingham county, ditto. Lieut. R. Burke, ditto, Harper's Ferry, taken near Lewinsville. A. P. Rose, 18th Va. regiment, taken near Ball's Cross Roads, took cath. This man was from Geneva, N. Y. James Silks, 2d S. C. regiment, Greenwood, S. C., taken near Centreville. Thomas Hays, Wheat's battalion, New Orleans, taken at Bull Run, July 21st. M. Keefe, ditto. George Larrabee and Jos. Elliott, Baltimoreans, 1st Maryland regiment, took oath. B. J. Cross and R. Watkins, citizens, taken at home. S. G. Acton, taken in Charles county, Md., Oct. 4th. W. F. Getty, taken in Washington, October 1st. G. S. Watkins, of Georgetown, taken at home Sept. 23d. T. A. Jones, of Charles county, Md., taken at