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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 11: (search)
h, General Beauregard telegraphed General Pemberton that he would send two brigades of his best troops, and requested that they be kept together under General Gist. On the 6th, the first of Gist's troops, five companies of the Forty-sixth Georgia, under Col. P. H. Colquitt, and the Twenty-fourth South Carolina, under Lieut.--Col. Ellison Capers (Col. C. H. Stevens remaining to bring on the stores of the regiment), left Charleston for Jackson, Miss., by way of Atlanta, Montgomery, Selma and Meridian. Delayed on the way, these commands reached Jackson on the evening of May 13th, and went into bivouac near the depot, with orders to be ready to march out on the Clinton road at dawn next day. Gen. Joseph E. Johnston reached Jackson by the same train. The situation was most critical in Mississippi. General Grant's army was thrown between Jackson and Vicksburg, holding the railroad at Clinton, where McPherson's corps was encamped. Sherman's corps was between Jackson and Raymond, McClern
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)
second battle of Jackson, where his left arm was torn by a shell, necessitating its amputation. Falling into the hands of the enemy he was held in the field hospital ten days, when he attempted to make his escape through the swamps, frightfully wounded as he was, but before he had been a half hour out ran into the headquarters of Dr. Hinkley, the Federal post surgeon. He was well cared for and sent by wagon to Brandon, where a little later he slipped out of the hospital and took train for Meridian. Soon afterward obtaining a transfer to the South Carolina college hospital at Columbia, he turned toward home on reaching Kingsville, and a month later reported for duty to his command then on Sullivan's island. After a furlough of sixty days, he was ordered to Columbia, where he was employed in making out the applications of soldiers for retirement, until the State was invaded by Sherman's army. In December, 1867, Mr. Elwell was admitted to the South Carolina conference, and he is now