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The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 10: The Armies and the Leaders. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 6 2 Browse Search
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 6 2 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), Biographical (search)
. Surviving the war he died at Mansfield, S. C., January 2, 1866, at the age of fifty-one years. Brigadier-General John Bordenave Villepigue Brigadier-General John Bordenave Villepigue was born at Camden, S. C., July 2, 1830, of French descBrigadier-General John Bordenave Villepigue was born at Camden, S. C., July 2, 1830, of French descent. He was graduated at the United States military academy in 1854, with a brevet lieutenancy in the dragoons; a year later was promoted to second lieutenant, and in 1857 to first lieutenant. His military service of about seven years in the old aon it would rank with the heaviest bombardment of the world. The buildings of the fort were several times on fire, and Villepigue was seriously wounded, but his coolness inspired his volunteers to fight with the tenacity of veterans. Said Bragg: Anfor our admiration, blended in perfect harmony, the modest but heroic soldier with the humble but confiding Christian. Villepigue was appointed chief of engineers and artillery on the staff of General Bragg, was for a time in command at Pensacola, t