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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) 1 1 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: July 5, 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)
regiment, with which, after duty on the seacoast, he went to Virgina in time to take part in the campaign on the Chickahominy in June, 1862. He continued in his lieutenancy during the battles of Second Manassas, Sharpsburg, and Fredericksburg and then, on account of the disability of his ranking officers, was promoted to command of the company. At Gettysburg, in the bloody fight of July 1st, he was severely wounded in the arm and was captured by the enemy. His arm was amputated by Surgeon Tazewell Tyler, son of President John Tyler, and he lay in camp hospital seventeen days and was then transferred to a hospital at Chester, Pa. In September, 1863, he was sent to the military prison on Johnson's island, Lake Erie, where he endured the privations of a prisoner and the rigors of the Northern winter, until February 28, 1865, when he was sent to Richmond for exchange. On account of his empty sleeve he was granted a furlough March 10th, during which the war came to an end. Since then h
The Daily Dispatch: July 5, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 9 (search)
the first time thrown open to the breeze. Their appeal to us to "receive it as the gift of sister daughters of our common mother, Virginia, and to recognize in it the emblems of our nationality," was clothed in the most beautiful manner, and did not fail to call forth from the bosom of all present a favorable response. They separately replied: "Spotless it is; it will be our duty and pleasure, with the Divine assistance, thus to return it." The flag was to have been presented by Dr. Tazewell Tyler, of New Kent county, but in consequence of being detained at home, Dr. Edward Eppes, a most accomplished gentleman and physician, and our surgeon, presented it in behalf of the ladies in such an appropriate address as to draw forth the favorable comments of all present. Our Captain R. T. Ellett, responded in a few brief but most graceful remarks. The unexpectedness of the presentation did not, however, allow either of the above gentlemen ample time to do themselves justice in full.
The Daily Dispatch: October 4, 1861., [Electronic resource], A Runaway Yankee recaptured. (search)
A Runaway Yankee recaptured. --A Federal soldier named Washburne, formerly of the 4th Maine regiment, escaped from the prison (Ross's factory) in this city on Wednesday night last, but was recaptured yesterday at Tunstall's Depot, New Kent county, and returned to his old quarters. The arrest was made by Dr. Tazewell Tyler, Mr. Apperson, and Mr. Wm. W. New.