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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)
to Charleston, Mr. Williman was in the service of the Northeastern railroad for a period of fifteen years, and in 1881 became teller of the Germania bank. Continuing with this institution he was promoted to cashier in 1894. Gideon T. Willis Gideon T. Willis, of Greenville, a survivor of the Hampton legion who added to the record of a soldier the exciting experiences of an escaped prisoner, is a native of Pickens county, S. C., born July 12, 1839. He is the son of James W. and Sarah (Thomason) Willis, and traces both his ancestral lines back to Revolutionary soldiers. He was reared upon his father's farm, and received an education which enabled him to engage in teaching school in early manhood. He enlisted in the Confederate service about June 12, 1861, as a private in Company E, Hampton legion, and served as such throughout the war. After faithful service with the army in Virginia, including the battles of First Manassas, West Point, Seven Pines, Cold Harbor, Gaines' Mill, M