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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[568] company was disbanded, and he then joined Walter's battery of Washington light artillery, in which command he served until the surrender with Johnston at Greensboro, N. C. He participated in all the engagements in which his company took part, was absent only ten days during the whole four years struggle, and never missed a roll call at which he was required to answer. After the close of the war he located in Blackville, S. C., and engaged in the mercantile business, which he has since successfully followed. He was married in 1870 to Mrs. Caroline Columbia (Rush) Sanders, of Barnwell county, and they have had five children: R. Emmet Lee, died in 1895, at the age of twenty-three years, soon after being admitted to the practice of law; John Mitchell, engaged with his father in business; Anna, now Mrs. John O'Gorman, of Blackville; Marie and Katie. The daughters are all active members of the Daughters of the Confederacy.

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Jacob David Felder

Jacob David Felder was born March 13, 1844, near Bamberg, S. C., and received his education in the common schools of that place. He enlisted in September, 1861, as a private in Company H, Hampton legion, and served as such until the last year of the war, when he was made color guard, serving in that position until the close, surrendering with Lee at Appomattox. He participated in the following engagements: Second Manassas, Chattanooga, Will's Valley, Tenn.; Bean Station, Tenn.; Morristown, Tenn.; Chickahominy, Va., and many others. At the Second Manassas he was wounded by a minie ball in the right leg, and this kept him out of the service about fourteen months. It may be well to state here that Mr. Felder is the man who killed Lieut.--Col. J. R. Root, of the Fifteenth New York cavalry, at Appomattox, the night before Lee's surrender. The particulars of the affair are as follows: Mr. Felder was passing through the town and at the outer edge of it heard the furious tramp of horses, accompanied by pistol shots. He reined his horse to one side of the road, and when the body of horsemen approached he halted them. Thinking they were all Confederates, he called for members of the Hampton legion, when Colonel Root leveled his pistol and fired at Felder, narrowly missing. Felder thereupon shot Root, the ball taking effect in the left side, killing him almost instantly. Various accounts of