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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) 4 0 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 8: (search)
, Privates B. Miller and E. Shirley mortally wounded, and Lieut. H. F. Scaife and 15 of the battery more or less severely wounded. Sergt. B. T. Glenn continued to work his piece long after receiving a very severe wound. Captain Boyce mentions all his officers, Lieutenants Jeter, Porter, Scaife and Monro, and Sergeants Glenn, Humphreys, Bunch, and Young, and Corporals Rutland, Byrd, Watts and Schartle; and Privates Scaife, Garner, Hodges, Shirley, Simpson, Gondelock, A. Sim, L. H. Sims, Willard, Peek, Gossett and Franklin, for distinguished gallantry in the battles from the Rappahannock to Antietam. Colonel McMaster, of the Seventeenth South Carolina, Evans' brigade, reports that he carried into the battle only 59 officers and men, so great had been his losses from sickness and wounds and straggling. Out of these he lost 19 in battle. There are no separate returns of the losses of Evans' brigade at Boonsboro gap and Sharpsburg, but in these two they are reported as follows:
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)
aged as a merchant for ten years at Lake City, and after that period conducted a grist-milling business for six years. He was assistant postmaster at Lake City from 1892 to 1897, and at the latter date he retired from active business and public affairs. He was married in 1873 to Mrs. Laws, nee McKenzie, of Williamsburg county, and they have eight children: Robert J., telegraph operator at Florence; Hester Erwin, also an operator at Lanes; Harriet Susanna, Cecil Elizabeth, Martin Luther, Lena Willard, Murry, and Ruby. Robert W. Shand, a prominent attorney of Columbia, judge advocate-general on the staff of Maj.-Gen. C. I. Walker, commanding the South Carolina division, United Confederate Veterans, was born at Columbia, February 27, 1840. He was graduated at the South Carolina college in 1859, read law in the office of Gen. Maxcy Gregg, and was admitted to practice in May, 1861. In April, 1861, he was in the State service near Charleston during and subsequent to the bombardment an