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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[623] mountain, and severely wounded in the left shoulder at Kenesaw mountain. In consequence of this injury he was disabled until after the evacuation of Atlanta. He then participated in Hood's northward movement, was in the fight at the block-house near Dalton, in the great battle of Franklin, and the siege of Murfreesboro, where he was severely wounded December 7, 1864, a minie ball piercing his neck and slightly cutting his spinal column. Falling into the hands of the enemy he was kept in the hospital at Murfreesboro until December 26, 1864, and then sent to Fort Delaware, where he was confined until June, 1865. Returning to Charleston by boat, he rode to Orangeburg, and thence walked to Ninety-six, where his mother was in refuge, his father having died in 1861. During the next four years Lieutenant Haltiwanger was engaged in school teaching in Edgefield and adjoining counties, after which he farmed for eight years in Lexington. Since 1881 he has been engaged in mercantile business and dealing in cotton at Columbia, and prospering, it is pleasing to note, in his various enterprises. By his marriage in 1869 to Mary Ellen Counts, he has seven children: Catherine E., wife of L. E. Barre; George W., Albert Claudius, James Hawkins, Harriet Estelle, Mary Ella, and Carl Abner. Two brothers of Lieutenant Haltiwanger were in the Confederate service: Albert J., in the quartermaster's department of the Twenty-fifth Georgia, and John J., who went out with the sixteenyear-old boys in 1864, in the Twenty-second South Carolina, and died from exposure at Charleston before the close of the year.

Lieutenant James A. Hamilton, when the call to arms was sounded in January, 1861, left his plantation interests on Port Royal island, S. C., and reported for duty with the Beaufort artillery. The young volunteer was tall, slim and of most active movements, the result of gymnastic exercise in which he had been assiduous for years. He was very reserved and would easily have been classed as stoical. This was the outcome of a resolute will in overcoming a violent temper. He mastered self to an extent that all outward expressions of emotion were dispelled. Laughter, sorrow, vivacity, or moroseness, all seemed to be in training. He was a drilled man. In camp he set about learning. Every detail of drill, every