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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)
and Rocky Mount was occupied on the 23d. Kilpatrick's cavalry was ordered to Lancaster. For several days after this Sherman was delayed by high water in the rivers. Howard's wing, having crossed the Catawba before the rains set in, advanced on Cheraw, where Hardee was stationed with a force of about 12,000, and a cavalry command was sent to burn and destroy at Camden. Another body of cavalry attempting to cut the railroad from Charleston to Florence was met and routed by a part of Butler's command, at Mount Elon. General Butler met Howard's advance at Chesterfield, and skirmished to impede its march, but Cheraw was entered by the enemy March 2d, and much property destroyed. An expedition of Federals was sent toward Florence, but was defeated in its attempt to reach that place. Continuing his march northward, Sherman's left wing reached Fayetteville, N. C., on the 11th of March. General Hampton, with his cavalry, had maintained active skirmishing to cover the retreat of Hardee's
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Biographical (search)
Trevilian Station he was in command of Hampton's division, and repulsed seven distinct and determined assaults by the largely superior forces under Sheridan, his command occupying the most important point of the Confederate line and fighting as infantry. In September he was promoted major-general, and in the spring of 1865 he was detached with a small division for the campaign against Sherman in the Carolinas. He commanded the rear guard of Hardee's army at the evacuation of Columbia and Cheraw, and at the last had division command of cavalry, his forces and Gen. Joe Wheeler's forming the command of Lieut.-Gen. Wade Hampton. The close of the war left him in financial ruin, but he bravely met the exigencies of the occasion, and in a short time attained national repute for the firmness and boldness with which he handled the political questions which concerned the essentials of the reorganized social life. While he powerfully advocated obedience to the reconstruction measures as the
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)
Charleston with the army, he was taken sick at Cheraw, and was in hospital at Sumter, S. C., when thf that region, when he accompanied the army to Cheraw as engineer officer on the staff of General Hant Klatte, attempted to join Hardee's corps at Cheraw, but being prevented by Sherman's advance finaolina college in 1855. He then studied law at Cheraw under Chancellor Inglis, and was admitted to pd lieutenant of a cavalry company organized at Cheraw. This was mustered in, in January, 1862, at Ghe latter city his regiment was transferred to Cheraw, where he was detached from his command and pur of J. B. Kershaw camp, No. 413, U. C. V., at Cheraw, also a member of the Masonic fraternity. Captain Powe died suddenly at his home in Cheraw, on the morning of August 1, 1898, at the age of sixtyIn April, 1865, he was captured in hospital at Cheraw, and soon afterward paroled. In the fall of 1hall Tomlinson Henry Marshall Tomlinson, of Cheraw, served the Confederacy in the Chesterfield li[24 more...]