Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina
Clement Anselm Evans, Ed.

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[437] B, First South Carolina cavalry, and at Brandy Station received a wound which resulted in the amputation of his left arm and rendered him unfit for further service. At the time of his death in March, 1884, he was holding the office of county clerk.

Captain William K. Bachman, attorney, Columbia, S. C., an officer of the South Carolina artillery, was born at Charleston in 1830, and in 1850 was graduated at the Charleston college. He then studied three years at Goettingen, Germany, and on his return was admitted to the bar at Charleston. He began the practice at Columbia in 1855, and since then has had a successful professional career at that city except as it was interrupted by service for the State and the Confederacy. As a lieutenant of the Columbia artillery he participated in the siege of Fort Sumter, and in September, 1861, accepted an invitation to take command of a company of young Germans organized at Charleston, and assigned to the Hampton legion. His company was presently ordered on duty as light artillery, and assigned to the battalion commanded by Stephen D. Lee, with which it was associated for nearly two years. Subsequently it was attached to Hood's brigade and division until the fall of 1863, when it was sent to South Carolina to recruit its diminished ranks. He remained with his battery between Charleston and Savannah until early in 1865, and then went north with the army and surrendered at Greensboro. Among the battles in which he commanded the battery were: First Manassas, the Chickahominy campaign of 1862, Second Manassas, Sharpsburg, Fredericksburg, December, 1862, three days battle of Gettysburg, on the last day receiving and repulsing Farnsworth's charge; Suffolk, and Fredericksburg, May, 1863. Captain Bachman was a member of the legislature in 1865-66, and assistant attorney-general of the State from 1880 to 1890.

D. Huger Bacot, prominent in the cotton trade of Charleston, is a native of that city, born in 1847. Though the Confederate era began and closed in his boyhood, he was toward the last associated with the gigantic struggle as one of the Arsenal cadets, and since then has been actively interested in the military organization of the