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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) 7 3 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), Chapter 10: (search)
them in the old battery, and kept in hiding for the event. Brown's guns were commanded by Lieuts. John A. Bellinger, Company B, and F. Lake, Company K. Fifty men of the Eighth Georgia battalion, under Lieuts. R. Hays and George Johnson, were detailed as sharpshooters. Lieut.--Col. Joseph A. Yates, First regulars, made a secret disposition of a larger force, on John's island, between the guns of Gary and Brown. He took two companies of Major Alston's siege train, A and B, commanded by Capt. B. C. Webb and Lieut. S. W. Willson, Jr.; Company F, Palmetto battalion, Capt. F. C. Schulz; a light battery, commanded by Capt. F. H. Harleston; one Parrott gun, in charge of Lieut. T. E. Gregg; Capt. John C. Mitchel's company, I, First artillery, and Companies H and I of the Twentieth infantry, Capt. S. M. Roof and Lieut. M. Gunter. Yates masked his guns at Grimball's and Legare‘s points, on John's island, and awaited his opportunity. The gunboat Isaac Smith, carrying a 30-pounder Parrott in
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)
his brothers, David Watson, served in the Confederate army as a private from 1863 to the close of the war. Captain Benjamin Charles Webb Captain Benjamin Charles Webb, of Columbia, formerly of Charleston, a veteran of the Palmetto Guards, was Captain Benjamin Charles Webb, of Columbia, formerly of Charleston, a veteran of the Palmetto Guards, was born in Walterboro, Colleton county, in 1839. As a youth he was much interested in military affairs, was a student at the Citadel academy at Charleston, and on June 28, 1858, entered the military service of the State as a private in the Palmetto Guich contained the gun whose lanyard was pulled by Edmund Ruffin to hurl the third short at Sumter. On June 28, 186, Sergeant Webb was elected second lieutenant, and was re-elected to this rank when on February 28, 1862, the company was mustered in appointed to the position of chief clerk of the board of control, South Carolina dispensary. The four lieutenants of Captain Webb's company were W. H. Chapman, J. A. Brux, R. E. Mellichamp and T. M. Hasel, all of whom have crossed the river, except