Browsing named entities in Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans). You can also browse the collection for December 20th, 1864 AD or search for December 20th, 1864 AD in all documents.

Your search returned 1 result in 1 document section:

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)
Carolina regiment, and was appointed corporal. In 1864 he was appointed orderly sergeant. He participated in the battle of First Manassas, was wounded at Seven Pines, and was in every engagement of the regiment up to Franklin, Tenn., where he was again severely wounded. He afterward took part in the battles from the Wilderness to Cedar Creek, in the valley of the Shenandoah, in October, 1864. There he was mortally wounded and captured, and died in a Federal hospital at Winchester, December 20, 1864. His grave could never be identified, though his brother made repeated efforts to do so, and his remains now rest with about 800 others under the monument erected to the unknown dead in Winchester, Va. William L. Durst, born in Edgefield county, S. C., August 31, 1843, is the son of John and Clarissa Ann (Kemp) Durst, both natives of Edgefield county, S. C. His grandfather, Peter Durst, who was born on shipboard when his parents were emigrating from Germany to America, entered the