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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‘ [893] Men of Winyah.’ This company being called into service in May, 1861, Dr. Wallace accompanied it as a private for six months, and when the company was divided into two companies, he was elected captain of one known as Company F, Seventh South Carolina cavalry. He was in all engagements in which his regiment participated. After the surrender he returned to the practice of medicine and farming at Georgetown until 1885, when he removed to Berkley county, practicing and farming there until 1891, when he changed his home to Kingstree, where he has since engaged in his profession and farming as before. He was born in Marion county November 18, 1833, and was married in 1856 to Miss Mary Jane Cumbie, of Georgetown. They have three living children: Charles B., a member of the United States navy; Ann Eliza, now Mrs. James T. Kellahan, of Kingstree, and Richard R. Dr. Wallace is a member of Camp Pressly, U. C. V., at Kingstree, and has been elected surgeon of the camp.

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Captain Creswell A. C. Waller

Captain Creswell A. C. Waller was born in Greenwood, S. C., June 22, 1839, the son of Albert and Jane Elizabeth (Creswell) Waller. Mary (Carlington) Creswell, his mother's grandmother, was related to George Washington, and comes from good old Virginia stock on both sides. On his mother's side he numbers among his ancestors John Hunter, United States senator from South Carolina from 1798 to 1801. Captain Waller was reared at the old Waller homestead where he was born, on which a portion of the city of Greenwood is now built, and there his home has been all his life, and he is now the oldest native born citizen of that thriving young city. His education was begun at Greenwood but finished at Furman university of Greenville, from which he graduated in 1860 with the degree of A. M. In April, 1861, he volunteered in Company F (Secession Guards), Second South Carolina regiment, commanded then by Col. J. B. Kershaw. He continued as a member of this company, serving as a private, through the campaigns of Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania and North Georgia, as a member of McLaws' division and Longstreet's corps, up to and including the battle of Chickamauga. During a portion of this time he was detailed as a member of the signal corps of McLaws' division, and as such was brought into