D. H. Hill, Jr., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 4, North Carolina
Clement Anselm Evans, Ed.

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[352] North Carolina, in which region he was captured January 14, 1864, at Cosby creek, which ended his military career. He experienced the life of the prison camps at Nashville, Louisville, Camp Chase and Fort Delaware. While at the latter place he was appointed to act with General Beale in buying clothing for; Confederate prisoners of war, which occupied his attention until he was paroled March 14, 1865. Since the return of peace he has had a conspicuous career in the Congress of the United States, as representative of the Eighth district, elected first in 1872, and continuously thereafter up to and including 1882. He declined renomination in 1884, but took an active part in the Democratic campaign of that year, and in the following spring was appointed assistant commissioner of patents by President Cleveland. He also attained prominence in the masonic order as grand-master for his State, in the Methodist church as delegate to general conferences and the ecumenical conference in London in 1881 , and as a lecturer and author.

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Major-General William Henry Chase Whiting

Major-General William Henry Chase Whiting was born at Biloxi, Miss., March 22, 1824, of Northern parentage. His father, Levi Whiting, a native of Massachusetts, was for forty years an officer of the United States army, from 1812 to 1853, and at his death was lieutenant-colonel of the First artillery. He was educated at the Boston high school, at Georgetown college, D. C., and at the United States military institute, being graduated with promotion to second lieutenant of engineers at the head of the famous class of 1845. He served as an officer of the engineer corps on the gulf coast until 1853, on the Pacific coast until 1856, and then in Florida, Georgia and North Carolina, being engaged in the improvements of Savannah river when he resigned in February, 1861, having at that time attained the rank of captain. Offering his services to Georgia, he was appointed major of