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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 3: (search)
y two brigades under Brigadier-General McLaws (Semmes' and Kershaw's), with Manly's battery. In thid charged the wood, and at the critical moment Semmes' brigade attacked the force that had turned his right. Semmes, supported by Kemper's fire and the Eighth, drove back the flanking column, and Kerkilled 47, wounded 234, missing 9; total 290. Semmes had only two regiments engaged and lost 64, anrear was fought by the brigades of Kershaw and Semmes, and only two regiments of the latter at thatvement which turned Kershaw's right, and which Semmes checked, at little cost. But for Jones' withd. Sumner speaks of the assault by Kershaw and Semmes as being met by Bums' brigade, supported and r The reader may determine whether Kershaw and Semmes were driven from the field of Savage Station. swamp by his unequal battle with Kershaw's and Semmes' brigades and Kemper's battery, followed Heint and A. P. Hill. We have seen how Kershaw and Semmes and Kemper alone carried out Magruder's flank
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 15: (search)
allant McLaws, under Longstreet, associated with Barksdale's Mississippians and Semmes' and Wofford's Georgians, was the South Carolina brigade of Gen. J. B. Kershaw.battle. Kershaw formed the right of McLaws' division and Barksdale his left, Semmes behind Kershaw and Wofford behind Barksdale. In front of Barksdale was the peacks coming again and again against them. Moving around Kershaw's right, before Semmes could come to his support, a large force assaulted the Seventh and pushed back at right angles, and then changed its front to support the Seventh. A part of Semmes' brigade came up, but the enemy were so far in rear of Kershaw's right as to cuth, and the battle on Kershaw's right was with the Third and Seventh and one of Semmes' regiments at close quarters among the rocks and trees of the hill-crest and siup to the battle everything gave way before the charge, and joining Wofford and Semmes, Kershaw's line moved forward, the advance sweeping the whole wheat-field and b