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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 12 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 6 0 Browse Search
Francis B. Carpenter, Six Months at the White House 2 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 34. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 2 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 25. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 2 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 23. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 2 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 17. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 2 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) 2 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 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)
hree he went West, and was employed as a clerk with a large drygoods house in the State of Kansas. At that time bloody riots were the order of the day, and when Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston of the United States army was sent to Kansas to quell the disturbances, Captain Blassingame joined his forces, and for his bravery was promoted to the rank of colonel. He was held in highest esteem by all as a man, soldier and officer, and after the riots were over he moved farther west and settled in the Rockies. Little of his frontier life is known, but it was an eventful one, full of interesting incidents. When South Carolina seceded in 1860, he had been living in the west four years, but on receiving the news he left his pursuits in the Rocky mountains and returned to his native State to defend her rights. He rode all the way on horseback from Pike's Peak, a distance of 2,000 miles, and upon his arrival enlisted in Company K, Spartan rifles, of the Fifth South Carolina volunteers. He first