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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), Chapter 20: (search)
a force of 200 men from the legion and Eighteenth regiment, under Captain Brown, who retook the line, with 14 prisoners. On the night of November 5th, 200 men of the legion, under Captain Woodruff, attacked the Federal line in front of the Crater, and 600 men attempted to intrench the position gained, but they were all compelled to retire, with a loss to the brigade of 95 men. In the latter part of September, General Heth and Hampton's cavalry administered a severe check to the enemy at Hatcher's run, and on the Vaughan and Squirrel Level roads. In the latter fight, General Dunovant was killed at the head of the South Carolina cavalry. The continued activity of the enemy on the Hatcher's Run line resulted in the battle of Burgess' Mill, October 27th, fought by Mahone and Hampton. In a gallant charge by Butler's division, Lieut. Thomas Preston Hampton, aide-de-camp, fell mortally wounded, and Lieut. Wade Hampton, of the general's staff, was severely wounded. Lieutenant-Colonel J
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)
Charleston and was educated at Yorkville military academy. On the breaking out of the war he at first entered the Confederate States navy but remained there only a short time. He was on Morris island when the Star of the West was fired upon, and was a witness to all the stirring scenes in the vicinity of Charleston at the beginning of the war, including the bombardment of Fort Sumter. Although only fifteen years old when the war began, before it had progressed a year he was enrolled with Hatcher's battalion. He afterward volunteered for the defense of Charleston, under Col. J. P. Thomas, in Thomas' battalion, and subsequently served under Col. Thomas G. Bacon in the Fifth regiment of Confederate reserves as orderly and acting sergeant-major. He wound up his Confederate career as a member of Company E, Second South Carolina cavalry, in Johnston's army, participating in all of the battles in which his command was engaged during the last eight months of the war, including those of