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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[834] in Greenville county, November 28, 1827. His father, Lewis Hampton Shumate, son of Strother D. Shumate, held the rank of colonel of militia before the great war and was an ardent supporter of John C. Calhoun, in 1832 raising a company to defend the action of the State. His mother was Mary, daughter of Robert Bolling, of Virginian descent. His ancestors were noted for longevity, his mother living to the age of ninety years, and her father to ninety-five, while his grandmother fell short only seven years of the life of her father, who completed a full century. Mr. Shumate made his home at Greenville in 1852, was married there in 1855 to Helen J. Latimer, and at the beginning of hostilities in 1861 he was engaged in business as a merchant. He went into the service as a private of the Butler Guards, of which he had been a member for several years, and going with the command to Virginia, joined the Second South Carolina regiment. He first went into the battle at First Manassas, and for nearly three years was at the front with his gallant comrades, participating in many encounters, such as Malvern Hill, Harper's Ferry, Sharpsburg, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, and Chickamauga. In the latter battle he was slightly wounded by a minie ball in the right shoulder, September 21, 1863. In January, 1864, while yet with his regiment he was elected sheriff of his county, and he returned home and assumed the duties of that office, which he continued to perform until 1868, when he refused to accept a renomination. At the battle of Gettysburg, Corporal Shumate was one of the three men, out of the forty-nine taken into the fight in his company, who escaped without wounds or death. Since 1868 he has been variously engaged at Greenville, as a merchant, contractor, railroad agent, and proprietor of a lumber yard. For ten years he was occupied as assignee of bankrupt estates in several counties of his region of the State. Mr. Shumate has five children living: Albert R., Lily L., Frank F., William W. and Helen H. The two oldest sons are in the service of the Southern railroad, with good positions, and the youngest was yeoman of the United States cruiser Minneapolis, his term expiring in July, 1898, when he re-entered the navy and is now yeoman on the President's private yacht, Sylph.

Rudolph Siegling, born at Charleston, December 31839, died at that city March 14, 1894, was one of the