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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[489] where he was ordered to await the completion of a sloop-of-war there, but the war came to an end soon afterward. While on the gunboats Lady Davis and Resolute, Midshipman Bryan was in several spirited engagements, and on board the Florida his experience was of the most exciting character. He returned from France at the close of hostilities, and in 1867 was admitted to the practice of law, in which he has since continued. He was elected corporation counsel of Charleston in 1878, and held that office until his election as mayor for a term of four years in December, 1887. He was appointed collector of the port February 13, 1894.

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Major George Lamb Buist

Major George Lamb Buist, of Charleston, a Confederate veteran who is prominent in the legal profession and in the public affairs of the city and State, was born at that city September 4, 1838, of a family descended from one of the earliest Huguenot immigrants. He was educated at the college of Charleston and in New Jersey, and in 1860 was admitted to practice as a lawyer. At that time he was orderly-sergeant of the Palmetto Guards, and was soon called upon to suspend his professional career and serve the State as a soldier. Being stationed at Morris island he was advanced to the rank of third lieutenant, and put in command of one of the guns of the Stevens iron battery during the bombardment of Fort Sumter. Early in the succeeding fall he was elected captain of the Guards and mustered into the Confederate States service. The company was assigned to the siege train, with the operations of which he was identified until the latter part of 1862, when he was promoted to major, and assigned to the command of a battalion of light artillery near Thunderbolt, below Savannah. After a year's duty there he was ordered to Florida and was for a short time on the staff of General Gardner. During the remainder of 1864 and until the evacuation of Charleston he was on duty along the coast between Charleston and Savannah. Finally, in command of a battalion of light artillery he was surrendered with Johnston's army near Greensboro. Since the close of hostilities Major Buist has been engaged in the practice of law at Charleston, the firm of Buist & Buist succeeding the law firm of Macbeth & Buist. His son Henry is now the junior member. In 1877 he was elected to the legislature from Charleston, and served