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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[859] Miss Susan A. Brown, of Marion county. They have seven children: J. Boyd, farmer; Julia M., now Mrs. D. A. Godbold, of Marion county; Mary D., now Mrs. W. D. Owens, of Marion; Sarah A., Harriet T., Thomas E. Jr., and James S. He is a member of Camp Marion, No. 641, U. C. V., at Marion.

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Lieutenant Henry Kennedy Stevens

Lieutenant Henry Kennedy Stevens was born October 17, 1824, at Norwich, Conn. He was educated at the schools of Pendleton, S. C., and entered the navy as a midshipman in 1839. He was made lieutenant in 1853, and was aboard the steamship Portsmouth as second lieutenant off the coast of Africa when South Carolina seceded. He resigned, and upon arrival of the ship at Portsmouth, N. H., in September, 1861, was arrested on refusing to take the oath of allegiance, and confined in Forts LaFayette and Warren until exchanged. After some service at Charleston, S. C., he was sent to Memphis in April, 1862, to assist in the construction of the ram Arkansas. On her completion he was made executive officer, and when the ship was ordered to pass the Federal fleet and go to Vicksburg she was attacked by three vessels. One of these was sent ashore in a sinking condition and the other two retired upon the fleet, through which the Arkansas passed, sinking one vessel and arriving at Vicksburg in a somewhat battered condition. In December, 1862, Lieutenant Stevens was detached from duty on the Arkansas and ordered to proceed to Alexandria, La., to confer with Gen. Richard Taylor as to the best means of co-operating with him with a naval party. While endeavoring to carry out these orders, and before being able to gather vessels or arm them, he was attacked on the ship Cotton, in the Bayou Teche, January 18, 1863, and in the battle was killed. He was buried at Franklin, La., but his body has since been removed to Pendleton, S. C., and interred in the family burying ground of the West Side Episcopal church there.

Colonel Peter F. Stevens, a younger brother of Gen. C. H. Stevens and of Lieut. H. K. Stevens, C. S. N., was born in Florida, June 22, 1830. At the breaking out of the Indian war in 1836, he, with his mother, elder brothers and sisters, was sent by his father to Pendleton,