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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 16: (search)
Chapter 16: South Carolinians at Chickamauga organization of the armies South Carolinians engaged their heroic service and sacrifices. The armies of Generals Bragg and Rosecrans, which were to fight the battle of Chickamauga on the 19th and 20th of September, 1863, were widely separated in the early part of August, Bragg at Chattanooga and Rosecrans beyond the Cumberland mountains, with the Tennessee river rolling between them. About the middle of August, the Federal general broke up his encampments and moved his army across the mountains to the Tennessee. Crittenden's corps threatened Chattanooga through the gaps in Walden's ridge, while Thomas' corps and McCook's moved to Stevenson, Bridgeport and the vicinity. Rosecrans established his depot at Stevenson and passed his army over the river on pontoons, rafts and boats, and boldly crossed Sand mountain to Trenton. He was on the flank of General Bragg by the 8th of September, and by the 12th had crossed Lookout
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)
a Church, Jonesboro, Columbia, Spring Hill, Franklin, Murfreesboro, Nashville, and was with the rear guard on the retreat from Tennessee, finally crossing the Tennessee river under cover of the spray thrown up by the shells from the gunboats. At a later date he was with the sadly reduced remnant of his command in the fighting on te took part in all the other fights of Rhett's artillery, including Seven Pines, the Seven Days before Richmond, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, crossing of Tennessee river in 1863, Bean's Station, Knoxville, Warrenton Springs, Spottsylvania Court House, Howlett House, Bermuda Hundred, and the fighting on the Petersburg lines. Obled him from further service. From that battlefield he walked to Columbia, Tenn., where he received a sixty days furlough, to remain on this (north) side of Tennessee river. Barefooted and suffering he walked thence, in December, 1864, in snow and sleet, after the defeat of Hood, to Corinth, Miss., took train to Lauderdale Sprin