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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[643] Bull Run, they discovered that the enemy was moving up the river to their left. This they reported to General Bonham, who sent his acting adjutant-general (McGowan) with the report to Generals Beauregard and Jackson. Thus the report of these faithful sentinels far out on the lines contributed to the first great success at Manassas Plains. At the battle of North Anna River Sergeant Henderson was captured and taken to Washington, then to Point Lookout, where he remained until paroled at the close of the war After his release he returned to Graniteville, S. C., and worked at the carpenter's trade for a short time, and then engaged in the mercantile business there for nine years. In 1876 he removed to Aiken, where he has since been successfully engaged as a merchant. He was married, in 1867, to Miss Mary E. Burnett, of Edgefield county, and they have three children: Mary Frances, now Mrs. E. V. Baldy, of Bowling Green, Ky.; Franklin P., and Ivy D., the latter a student at the Greenville female college.

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Lieutenant Henry B. Hendricks

Lieutenant Henry B. Hendricks, of Pickens, S. C., was born in Pickens county, January 20, 1847, the son of Henry and Margaret (Couth) Hendricks. He was too young to enter the war in the beginning, but in July, 1864, he entered the Confederate service, responding to the first call for seventeen-year-old boys. He was elected orderly-sergeant of Company F, Major Martin's battalion, and two months later, upon the reorganization, was elected first lieutenant, over the second and third lieutenants, receiving every vote but one out of 110. He went with this command to Columbia, where it was entrusted with the duty of guarding 1,600 Federal prisoners, all of whom were commissioned and non-commissioned officers. While in this service, on December 25, 1864, he contracted typhoid fever and pneumonia, and lay sick in the hospital for three months. It was the 29th of March, 1865, before he was able to be out, and meanwhile Sherman's army had compelled the evacuation of Columbia, and he was removed to Chester. The shells from Sherman's artillery had begun to fall in the city before he left, and a few hours later its buildings were in flames. As an illustration of the high prices and the depreciation of paper money, it may be said that while at Chester he paid $1,300 for one month's board for himself and a