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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[900] was pulled by Edmund Ruffin to hurl the third short at Sumter. On June 28, 186, Sergeant Webb was elected second lieutenant, and was re-elected to this rank when on February 28, 1862, the company was mustered into the Confederate service. Six months later he was promoted to first lieutenant, and on December 1, 1863, to captain. He continued in command of this famous organization of artillery until the final epoch of the war in the Carolinas, being at the close senior captain in his battalion. He participated in the defense of Port Royal Ferry, January x, 1862, the engagement with the steamer Pawnee on Stono river, the capture of the steamer Isaac P. Smith on the same river, spending three months on duty in Florida, and for six months or more was stationed during the summer of 1864 on the Ashepoo river, taking part in the actions on the Tulifinny and Coosawhatchie rivers; was in the fight at Grimbal's causeway, James island, February, 1865, and the battles of Averasboro and Bentonville. In an attack on the steamer Marblehead, in Stono river, Christmas day, 1863, he received a severe wound in the head. After the close of hostilities he resided at Charleston until 1896. In the following year he made his home at Columbia, and in 1897 he was appointed to the position of chief clerk of the board of control, South Carolina dispensary. The four lieutenants of Captain Webb's company were W. H. Chapman, J. A. Brux, R. E. Mellichamp and T. M. Hasel, all of whom have crossed the river, excepting the gallant Mellichamp, who still lives in Charleston.

Lieutenant Robert Singleton Weeks entered the State service in the fall of 1861 with the Eighteenth South Carolina militia, and did duty as an orderly-sergeant on the coast near Jacksonboro, for about five or six weeks. In the latter part of 1861 the regiment was disbanded and Sergeant Weeks enlisted in Company C, Twenty-fourth South Carolina infantry, January 2, 1862, and served again as orderly-sergeant for a year, when he was elected second lieutenant of his company. Lieutenant Weeks was in command of his company from July, 1864, to the end of the war, and but for the sudden close of hostilities would have received a commission as captain. His battle record includes the following engagements: Secessionville, S. C., Jackson, Miss., siege of Jackson, Miss.,