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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[876] South Carolina regiment until the battle of Malvern Hill, where he was seriously wounded by a shot through the body, and his active military career was closed. He had fought in the battles of First Manassas, Williamsburg, Seven Pines, and Savage Station. Upon his recovery he served the Confederacy in his profession to the close of the war. In 1868 he abandoned the railroad business, in which he had been quite prominent, having once been superintendent of the Greenville & Columbia railroad, and later master mechanic of the Pensacola & Georgia railroad, in Florida, and removed to Pickens, where he engaged in mercantile pursuits for a number of years. In 1874 he was appointed United States commissioner for the district of South Carolina and has held that position for a period of twenty-four years. He was married June 4, 1855, to Elizabeth M. McFall, who died in 1864; and on March 28, 1866, he married Miss Evaline Fant. Mr. Thornley is a highly esteemed and substantial citizen, and a director of the Pickens bank.

Lieutenant James H. Thornwell, D. D., pastor of the Presbyterian church at Fort Mill, in his youth served in the Confederate ranks, and is now fraternally associated with the surviving veterans as chaplain of the regiment, which includes Catawba camp. He was born at Columbia May 13, 1846, son of Rev. James H. Thornwell, and his family is one distinguished in the history of the State. His mother was Nancy, daughter of Col. J. H. Witherspoon, of Lancaster county, and from her he inherits blood which has been shed in all the wars of the nation, from early colonial times. Dr. Thornwell, as a youth, was just prepared to enter college when the great war began, and instead he entered the miltary service of the State. When but sixteen years of age he was appointed drillmaster by the governor, with the rank of lieutenant. Later he was elected a lieutenant of Company B, Fourth regiment of reserves. He was then appointed a student at the Arsenal, Columbia, but after one session he enlisted in Company E, Nineteenth battalion of cavalry, with which he served, mainly in the Carolinas, until surrendered under the capitulation of General Johnston. After the close of hostilities he farmed for a year, and then resumed his studies and was graduated at the South Carolina college in 1868. Deciding at this period of his