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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[599] which capacity he was again in Fort Sumter and on duty at other points of danger. Finally leaving Charleston with the army, he was taken sick at Cheraw, and was in hospital at Sumter, S. C., when the end came. After the close of hositilities Mr. Gilliland returned to Charleston and in 1868 entered the law office of Simonton & Barker as a clerk. In 1886, when Colonel Simonton was appointed to the Federal bench, he became a member of the firm of Barker, Gilliland & Fitzsimons, which was dissolved in 1890. Since the latter date he has continued in the practice independently, and occupies a high standing at the distinguished bar of the city.

John L. Girardeau, D. D., Ll. D., one of the most distinguished preachers of the South, who died at Columbia, June 23, 1898, was during the war of the Confederacy the loved chaplain of the Twenty-third regiment, South Carolina volunteers. He was born on James island, November 14, 1825, the son of John Bohun Girardeau, a planter in the low country. His grandfather was Isaac Girardeau, of American birth, a descendant of Pierre Girardeau, of Poitou, France. He was graduated with first honor at the college of Charleston in 1844, finished a course at the Presbyterian theological seminary at Columbia in 1848, and then was a pastor of Presbyterian churches at Wappetaw and in Colleton county until 1854, when he engaged in mission work among the negroes in Charleston, his field of labor until he became chaplain of the Twenty-third regiment. He shared the campaigns of his regiment, throughout the war, lovingly ministering to them, and distinguished for deeds of Christian charity. During the fight at Secessionville, June 16, 1862, after the repulse of the enemy from the breastworks, fifty or more mortally wounded and dying United States soldiers were collected and placed in the excavation behind the magazine, and those who were permitted to observe it can never forget their emotions when they saw Dr. Girardeau in the midst of these late deadly enemies, upon his knees, offering up an earnest and eloquent prayer for their spiritual welfare. He was an ardent, if not bitter, advocate of Southern rights, but here his soul was aglow with Christ-like forgiveness. He was with his regiment until he was captured at Sailor's Creek, April 6, 1865, following which he was imprisoned at Johnson's island