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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 16. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 15 1 Browse Search
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 9 3 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), Biographical (search)
isciplinarian, so far as the volunteer service required, he did not treat his officers with any air of superiority. Brigadier-General John Bratton Brigadier-General John Bratton was born at Winnsboro, S. C., March 7, 1831, the son of Dr. William Bratton by his second wife, Isabella Means. He is a descendant of Col. William Bratton, of Virginia, who removed to York county, S. C., and was a conspicuous figure in the war of the revolution. John Bratton was graduated at the South Carolina cCol. William Bratton, of Virginia, who removed to York county, S. C., and was a conspicuous figure in the war of the revolution. John Bratton was graduated at the South Carolina college in 1850, and a few years later embarked in the practice of medicine at his native town, having completed a professional course at the Charleston college. In 1861 he enlisted in the first call for ten regiments of troops, as a private, and being promoted captain, served in that capacity during the bombardment of Fort Sumter, and until the State troops were called upon to enlist in the Confederate service. His company declining to respond, he again enlisted as a private, and with twenty-
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)
aduate of the Jefferson medical college, Philadelphia, and was a physician of prominence; and his grandfather was Col. William Bratton, born in 1743, and famous in the Revolutionary annals of South Carolina, participating with distinction in variousf July 11, 1780, utterly destroying them and turning the tide of battle against the Royal army. Martha, the wife of Colonel Bratton, is no less famed in history, for her defiant patriotism and her courage, when in the hands of an infuriated monster and with a rope around her neck, in refusing to betray her husband. With such ancestry, Mr. Bratton naturally gave his earnest and devoted support to his State in the great struggle of 1861-65, leaving Mount Zion college to enlist in April, 1861. ving: Mason, a merchant at Guthriesville; Clarence Stuart, a druggist at Palestine, Tex.; and a daughter, Virginia. Mr. Bratton since the .war has been engaged in business as a merchant, also in farming, and has met with marked success. Two brothe
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 16. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Heroes of the old Camden District, South Carolina, 1776-1861. an Address to the Survivors of Fairfield county, delivered at Winnsboro, S. C., September 1,1888. (search)
repulsed the British fleet off Charleston harbor. Colonel William Bratton, of York, was his associate, friend and adviser in to the British forces. Both John McLure, of Chester, and Bratton and Winn concerted and conducted an attack in June, 1780, ng this portion of the colony. The news of the success of Bratton, Winn and McLure drew down upon them the vengeance of the 1th July, Houk came with his whole command to the house of Bratton, against whom the British ire seems most to have been excited, and ordered Mrs. Bratton to provide a repast for himself and his troopers. He asked her where her husband was, to whicrtered for the night at James Williamson's house adjoining Bratton's, sentinels were placed in a lane before the house, the rdiers in their tents and the officers in the house. Colonel Bratton, who was then with Sumter at Mecklenburg, having heardited for dawn to commence the attack. In the meantime Colonel Bratton himself reconnoitered the position and actually passed
The Daily Dispatch: March 2, 1861., [Electronic resource], Three persons Drowned. (search)
ned. --A distressing accident occurred in Prince George co., Va., during the early part of the present week, and by which three persons lost their lives. --Mitchell Harrison, accompanied by his wife and child, and a lad, who was the son of Wm. Bratton, of the same county, embarked in a skiff, or canoe, at a point of Ward's Creek, near Brandon Church, to visit a friend. The short trip was successfully made, but upon returning, at a late hour in the evening, the frail bark collapsed, and alls wife and child, and a lad, who was the son of Wm. Bratton, of the same county, embarked in a skiff, or canoe, at a point of Ward's Creek, near Brandon Church, to visit a friend. The short trip was successfully made, but upon returning, at a late hour in the evening, the frail bark collapsed, and all its occupants were precipitated into deep water. Harrison made every effort to save his wife and child, as also the son of Mr. Bratton, but failed to do so. and all three found a watery grave.