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ext year, and in view of the loss of upper Georgia, possible starvation. At the same time there was much change in district commanders, one of the most important being the assignment of General McLaws to the Third district and Georgia. On July 31st, the aggregate present in various commands under General Jones was as follows: First and Fourth districts, Gen. R. S. Ripley, 3,177; Seventh district, General Taliaferro, 3,742; Second and Sixth districts, Gen. B. H. Robertson, 1,280; Third disnce, to the gallantry and good conduct of our officers and men. His aggregate of losses was 33 killed and 96 wounded. The part of this campaign which fell upon Fort Sumter was a fierce bombardment by day and night, in which from July 7th to July 31st inclusive, 7,000 shot and shell took effect. On the 7th the flag was cut down three times. On the 20th Commandant Mitchel, one of the most gallant officers of the artillery service, was mortally wounded while making an observation from the hi
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)
and gallant, and he had the honor of participating with credit in many engagements, prominent among which were Port Royal, Pomcotaligo, Morris Island, Battery Wagner, Battery Marshall (Sullivan's Island), Fort Johnson (James Island), Olustee, Fla., Walthall Junction, Va., Swift Creek, Drewry's Bluff, Bermuda Hundred, Gaines' Mill, Second Cold Harbor, Darbytown Road, June 14, 1864, Petersburg, Va., battles of June 16, 17, 18, 19, 1864, the assault of June 24th and the recapture of the mine July 31st, Weldon Railroad, August, 1864, Darbytown Road, October, 1864, and in the winter of 1864-65 was with the army in North Carolina near Fort Fisher, and in the battle of Bentonville. After the close of hostilities this gallant Confederate officer returned to the professional studies he had abandoned, and was graduated at the Charleston medical college in 1868. Since then he has had a very successful career at Columbia, where he is honored by his Confederate comrades with the rank of surgeon