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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[601] where he graduated with second honors in a class of about sixty in 1849. He immediately took up the study of law, was admitted to the bar in 1851 and commenced the practice of his profession at Orangeburg, where he continued to practice until the beginning of the war, at that time having the largest business at that bar. He volunteered in January, 1861, in the Edisto Rifles at Orangeburg, was elected captain, and January 27, 1861, was commissioned lieutenant-colonel of the First (Hagood's) regiment, South Carolina volunteers. On January 21, 1862, he was commissioned colonel of the same regiment. He was wounded three times at the head of his regiment at the battle of Second Manassas, August 30, 1862, and died of his wounds August 31st. In 1859 he was married to Miss E. Tecoa Whitner, a daughter of Judge Whitner, of South Carolina, and they had one son, Thomas J., Jr., who died May 20, 1895. Mrs. Glover still lives in Virginia. Colonel Glover was a member of the State legislature that called the secession convention of 1860.

B. J. Gold, since 1876 one of the leading citizens of Blacksburg and vicinity, is a native of North Carolina, born in Cleveland county, December 11, 1845. He is a son of Daniel P. and Margaret M. (Jenkins) Gold, both natives of North Carolina, where his grandfather settled from Virginia at the beginning of the present century. In 1861 his father, though past military age, enlisted in a volunteer company, and his son believing he was better able to endure a soldier's life, and perform the patriotic duty of the household, was successful in being taken in his father's place, though he then lacked several days of being sixteen years old. He was mustered in with Company I, Thirty-eighth North Carolina regiment, and after drilling at Raleigh was sent to Virginia, where he was first on duty at Fredericksburg, and then being ordered back to Richmond, took part in the sanguinary battles of Mechanicsville, Gaines' Mill, Frayser's Farm and Malvern Hill. Later, marching northward with Jackson, he fought at Cedar Mountain, Ox Hill, and at Second Manassas his comrades remember that the brave boy soldier stopped amid the whistle of grape and canister, after an unsuccessful charge on a battery, to give a drink from his canteen to a wounded Federal soldier. He participated in the capture of Harper's Ferry, and the great battles