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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 8 2 0 Browse Search
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 1 1 Browse Search
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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)
iment, he was permitted by General Taliaferro to attach himself temporarily to the Palmetto Guards, with which he took part in the battle of Averasboro. Immediately afterward he made his way to his regiment at Five Forks, and participating in the battle there, April 1st, was captured. He was held as a prisoner at Point Lookout until the latter part of July, 1865. In 1866 Mr. Douglas visited Texas, and he remained there and at other southwestern points for six years. Then he resided at Gadsden, S. C., until 1881, when he made his home at Columbia. At present he holds the office of clerk of the board of commissioners of Richland county. By his marriage, in 1878, to Joanna Carter, he has one child: Emily. Captain James T. Douglass Captain James T. Douglass, of Union county, one of the most extensive and prosperous planters of the State, was in her days of trial one of the most devoted soldiers who defended her cause and maintained her honor in the armies of the Confederacy. H
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 8, Chapter 66: (search)
e bay Armstrong had about fifteen hundred men. The first regular South Carolina regiment, under Christopher Gadsden, occupied Fort Johnson, which stood on the most northerly part of James Island, about three miles from Charleston, and within point-blank shot of the channel. Charleston was protected by more than two thousand men. Half an hour after nine in the morning, the commodore gave signal to Clinton that he should go on the attack. An hour later the ships-of-war were under weigh. Gadsden, Cotesworth Pinckney, and the rest at Fort Johnson watched all their movements; in Charleston the wharfs and water-side along the bay were crowded with troops under arms and lookers-on. Their adversary must be foiled, or their city may perish; their houses be sacked and burned; and the savages on the frontier start from their lurking-places. No grievous oppressions weighed down the industry of South Carolina; she came forth to the Chap. LXVI.} 1776. June 28. struggle from generous sympa