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Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Additional Sketches Illustrating the services of officers and Privates and patriotic citizens of South Carolina. (search)
s badly cut up. During the retreat to Virginia and the subsequent campaigning he was at the front. In March, 1864, the First and Second cavalry were ordered home to recruit. He brought back but thirty-one of the ninety-seven who had gone into Virginia in his company. After filling up the command he was on duty on the coast, and later with part of his regiment was in temporary command at Florence. His service ended with Johnston's surrender at Greensboro. Robert Wilson, rector of St. Luke's church, Charleston, is connected with the Confederate era by faithful service in the medical department of the army. He was born at Charleston in 1838, was a student at the university of Virginia, and was graduated in medicine at the medical college of South Carolina in 1859. First engaging in the practice of this profession at Pineville, and afterward at Camden, he presently determined to take holy orders, and devote his life to the sacred calling in which for many years he has been conspi
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 5., Grace Church, Medford. (search)
aradise was born in Boston and educated in the public schools and at Phillips Academy, Andover. He was graduated from Yale University in the class of 1888, and was prepared for the ministry at the Berkeley Divinity School, Middletown, Conn., the school which was founded and presided over by Bishop Williams. Upon his ordination to the diaconate in 1890, Mr. Paradise was called to the rectorship of St. Peter's Church, Milford, Conn., where he remained three years, when he was called to St. Luke's Church, East Greenwich, R. I. After a short rectorship of seven months in this beautiful town, he was elected dean of Christ Church Cathedral, New Orleans, La., and began his work there in February, 1894. He filled this position for the next four years, and in April, 1898, was called to the rectorship of Grace Church, Medford. The fiftieth anniversary of Grace Church was suitably observed on Sunday, May 7, 1898. The historical address was delivered by the new rector and was exceedingly
The Daily Dispatch: April 29, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 5 (search)
e gentlemen hold, defiant fronts, showing that the spirit of '76 was still alive, and that they were not unworthy of their revolutionary ancestry. It was expected that the military of the county would have been called into service during the week, but such a call has not yet been made. On Tuesday three young gentlemen from Richmond College returned to their homes in this vicinity, and burning with an enthusiasm and patriotism worthy of all praise, volunteered in the Powhatan Troop, and yesterday went into encampment with that company, under Capt. Lay, at St. Luke's Church. They went into camp prepared for any emergency, but if none they will return to their homes to-morrow. The Troop was organized about the time of the John Brown raid; numbers ever sixty men, and is receiving frequent accessions to its ranks. It is a well disciplined band of noble, wholesaled fellows, and under its efficient officers will do considerable execution in the assuming struggle. Young America.
The Daily Dispatch: June 16, 1864., [Electronic resource], Politics of Rev. Dr Breckinridge's family. (search)
Funeral of Gen. Polk. Atlanta, June 15. --The remains of Gen. Polk arrived here this morning, and were deposited in St. Luke's Church. The funeral services and a sermon by Rev. Dr. Quintard were delivered before a great assembly. The remains were then escorted to the Noose train for Augusta with military honors. The death of this Christian hero has made a profound impression on all classes of this community.
The Daily Dispatch: June 21, 1864., [Electronic resource], Grant's campaign an acknowledged failure. (search)
ndicating for whom they were intended, was inscribed the names respectively of Gen. Jos. E. Johnston, Lieut. Gen. Hardee, and Lieut. Gen. Hood, "with the compliments of Lieut. Gen. Leoni Jas. Polk, June 12th, 1864." Within the fourth volume was inscribed his own name. All were saturated with the blood which flowed from the wound. The remains, in charge of his staff, reached this city last night, and were received by a committee of citizens appointed by the Mayor, and deposited in St. Luke's Church, on Walton street. The remains were lying in state in the church, and were visited during the morning by thousands of citizens. At 12 o'clock the beautiful burial service of the Protestant Episcopal Church was performed by prayers being read by the Rev John Backwith. The Rev. Charles T. Quintard, Pastor of St. Luke's, and Chaplain on the staff of Gen. Polk, delivered an eloquent and impressive eulogy upon the distinguished dead, after which the remains, enclosed in a metallic ca