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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 2: (search)
e constantly exerted to secure a perfect defense of the city of Charleston. The troops on James island and on the line of railroad, as reported April 30, 1862, present for duty, numbered 2,275, rank and file, stationed as follows: In the First district, Col. R. F. Graham, 1,254; Second district, Brigadier-General Ripley, 8,672; Third district, Brigadier-General Evans, 5,400; Fourth district, Col. P. H. Colquitt, 1,582; Fifth district, Col. P. H. Colquitt, 2,222; Sixth district, Brigadier-General Drayton, 3,45; total, 22,275. The above statement includes infantry, artillery and cavalry. They were all South Carolina troops except Phillips' Georgia legion (infantry), Thornton's Virginia battery, and a company of Georgia cavalry, under Capt. T. H. Johnson. Manigault's Tenth volunteers and Moragne‘s Nineteenth, with the two Tennessee regiments under Brigadier-General Donelson, had been sent to Corinth to reinforce Beauregard in the west, and Dunovant's Twelfth, Edwards' Thirteenth
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)
ssistant adjutant-general in the Confederate service, and assigned to the staff of Brig.-Gen. T. F. Drayton. He and General Drayton were the last to leave the island after the battle of Hilton Head, where he was slightly wounded. In the first batte reinforcements sent to Col. Live Oak Walker, and took part in the pursuit of the enemy. In July, 1862, he accompanied Drayton's brigade to Richmond, and served as adjutant-general of the temporary division composed of Drayton's and Evans' brigadeDrayton's and Evans' brigades. He continued with Drayton's brigade until after the fights at Belvidere ford and Thoroughfare gap, when he was transferred to the staff of Gen. D. R. Jones, commanding the division, with whom he served in the battles of Second Manassas, Ox Hill,Drayton's brigade until after the fights at Belvidere ford and Thoroughfare gap, when he was transferred to the staff of Gen. D. R. Jones, commanding the division, with whom he served in the battles of Second Manassas, Ox Hill, Boonsboro Gap and Sharpsburg, at Second Manassas leading Wilson's Georgia brigade into the fight under a hot fire, in which his cap was knocked off by a minie ball, and at Sharpsburg having his horse killed under him. Upon General Jones' retirement