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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 9: (search)
ry shared in the honors of that eventful day, and is associated with other batteries of Alexander's battalion and the batteries of Colonel Walton in the immortal defense of Marye's heights. General Hampton's cavalry brigade, after November 10th, included two South Carolina regiments, the First, Col. J. L. Black, and Second, Col. M. C. Butler. While General Lee was concentrating his army at Fredericksburg, before the battle, Longstreet being already in position and Jackson halted at Orange Court House, General Hampton crossed the Rappahannock and made a brilliant dash into the enemy's lines, capturing an outpost on his immediate right flank. On the morning of November 27th, with 50 men from the First North Carolina, 50 from the Cobb legion, 40 from the Jeff Davis legion, 347 from the Phillips legion, and 34 from the Second South Carolina, a force of 208 men, Hampton crossed the river at Kelly's mill and moved northeast to Morrisville. Learning of an outpost stationed at a church 8
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 15: (search)
The Gettysburg campaign gallant service of Perrin's and Kershaw's brigades Hampton's cavalry at Brandy Station. The spring had gone and summer had opened in Virginia, when, seeing no indications of aggressive movement on the part of the Federal army lying opposite him on the Rappahannock, General Lee determined to draw it from his Fredericksburg base and compel it to follow his movements or attack him in position. General Lee's plan involved the movement of his army by its left to Orange and Culpeper, the crossing of the Blue ridge into the Shenandoah valley, the crossing of the Potomac, and the march of his whole force directly on Harrisburg, the capital of Pennsylvania. The army of Northern Virginia was now organized in three corps, commanded by Lieutenant-Generals Longstreet, Ewell and A. P. Hill. Longstreet's division commanders were McLaws, Pickett and Hood; Ewell's, Early, Rodes and Johnson; A. P. Hill's, Anderson, Heth and Pender. Still in the division of the gal
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)
d he accompanied it in all of them, notably Savage Station, Malvern Hill, Orange Court House, Brandy Station, South Mountain, Manassas Junction, Upperville, Barbee's and being ordered north reached Manassas on the evening of July 21st. At Orange Court House, next spring, the regiment was reorganized and Cowsar was elected first lwas thus engaged ten months. In October, 1863, he rejoined his command at Orange Court House, and remained with it until May 5, 1864, when he was again wounded, this who joined the Richmond Hussars, of Augusta, and died of pneumonia, at Orange Court House, Va., two months after his enlistment. A younger brother of this patrioticksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Chickamauga, Knoxville, Wilderness, Orange Court House, Spottsylvania, Second Cold Harbor, Berryville, Cedar Run, Deep Bottom, Aot, Darkville, Strasburg, Rappahannock Station, Brandy Station, Culpeper, Orange Court House, Gordonsville, Trevilian Station, New Market, Lacy's Springs, Waynesboro,