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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 1: (search)
Fort Sumter, as he had a right to do, being in command of all the forts in the harbor. To this Colonel Pettigrew replied that when the present governor (Pickens) came into office, he found an understanding existing between the previous governor (Gist) and the President of the United States, by which all property within the limits of the State was to remain as it was; that no reinforcements were to be sent here, particularly to this post; that there was to be no attempt made against the public e great plateau, which was then again in possession of the Confederates. Hampton fell, wounded in this charge, and Capt. James Conner took command of the legion. Bee, the heroic and accomplished soldier, fell at the head of the troops, and Gen. S. R. Gist, adjutant-general of South Carolina, was wounded leading the Fourth Alabama. Reinforced, the Federal troops again advanced to possess the plateau, but Kirby Smith's arrival on the extreme left, and his prompt attack, with Kershaw's command
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 4: (search)
rce fully equal to that of the Federal army was encamped behind the batteries, and on the lines of defense from Fort Pemberton on the Stono, at Elliott's cut, to Secessionville on the extreme east, under Brig.-Gens. N. G. Evans, W. D. Smith and S. R. Gist, the former in chief command. Col. Johnson Hagood, First volunteers, commanded the advance guard, composed of his own regiment, the Twenty-fourth, Col. C. H. Stevens; the Eutaw battalion, Lieut.-Col. C. H. Simonton, and the Fourth Louisiana baregated the main portion of his troops at Hilton Head, Beaufort and North Edisto. There were left only the gunboats in the lower Stono, and the blockading fleet off the bar to menace Charleston. The troops which had reinforced the command of General Gist on James island were returned to their former stations on the coast and at Savannah, and the heroes of Secessionville were toasted on every hand. During the remainder of the summer, several affairs occurred along the coast which illustrated
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 5: (search)
king command, General Beauregard assigned Gen. S. R. Gist to command the First district, with headqcessionville by Lieutenantcolo-nel Capers. General Gist had under his command 133 companies of all s, ample reinforcements arrived from Hagood and Gist, and from Savannah, but too late to do more tha sent a division of two brigades under Brig.-Gen. S. R. Gist. The first brigade was made up of trohe day of the attack in front of Goldsboro, General Gist's division had arrived in Wilmington, and wack. About January 1, 1863, the division under Gist was returned to General Beauregard, except Harrable force for the defense of Wilmington, after Gist's division was returned to Beauregard. Returard: I send you this note by your able Brigadier-General Gist, of South Carolina . . . I beg you wile made a special request that he might have General Gist's personal services, and accordingly that gavor Whiting expressed his thanks, referring to Gist as always cool, sensible and brave, characteris
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 11: (search)
rdingly, orders were issued, assigning Brig.-Gens. S. R. Gist and W. H. T. Walker to the command of ians and Georgians known in the Western army as Gist's brigade was duly formed. The following was i requested that they be kept together under General Gist. On the 6th, the first of Gist's troops, fGist's troops, five companies of the Forty-sixth Georgia, under Col. P. H. Colquitt, and the Twenty-fourth South Carhe Forty-sixth Georgia, Capt. T. B. Hancock, of Gist's brigade, with the Fourteenth Mississippi and Beauregard from Canton, on the 25th of May, General Gist said: None of the troops from your depagn above described, from May 20th to July 20th, Gist's brigade formed part of Walker's division, Evae brigades posted as follows: Ector's, Gregg's, Gist's and Wilson's. Several casualties occurred in General Gist's brigade on the picket line, and in the trenches, but no return of them is available. arpshooters, and then fell back to their line. Gist's brigade remained encamped near Morton until t[2 more...]
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 15: (search)
Pee Dee artillery, Lieut. W. E. Zimmerman. In the cavalry corps of Maj.-Gen. J. E. B. Stuart, Brig.-Gen. Wade Hampton commanded his brigade, including the First and Second South Carolina cavalry, and Capt. J. F. Hart's South Carolina battery was part of the horse artillery under Major Beckham. Thus it will be seen that there were two infantry brigades, five batteries, and two cavalry regiments of South Carolina troops in the army of General Lee on this march into Pennsylvania. Evans' and Gist's brigades were in Mississippi with General Johnston, and Manigault's brigade was with General Bragg's army at Chattanooga. Attached to those commands or serving in the West, were the batteries of Captains Ferguson, Culpeper, Waties and Macbeth. Most of the South Carolina troops of all arms were engaged in the defense of Charleston and the coast of the State, then being attacked by a powerful fleet and a Federal army. On June 7th the corps of Longstreet and Ewell, with the main body of th
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)
d his headquarters at Lee & Gordon's mills. General Gist's South Carolina brigade, with Ferguson's bof three brigades did not number 3,000 men. General Gist's brigade, to which the writer was attachedh Carolina brigades, Kershaw's, Manigault's and Gist's, were with the divisions of McLaws, Hindman aching from Ringgold for Alexander's bridge, General Gist was marching from Catoosa Station for the he remainder of the Forty-sixth Georgia. General Gist had under his charge an ammunition train wh10 p. m. on the 19th. After an all-night march Gist crossed Alexander's bridge at sunrise, halted about 9 o'clock. General Walker at once assigned Gist to the command of his division (Ector, Wilson and Gist), and Gist's brigade was commanded by the senior officer, Col. P. H. Colquitt, Forty-sixth GGist's brigade was commanded by the senior officer, Col. P. H. Colquitt, Forty-sixth Georgia. Kershaw marched his own and Humphreys' brigades to the left and took position in support ofBreckinridge and Cleburne were withdrawing, General Gist's brigade, under Colquitt, not 1,000 strong
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 19: (search)
ugh, and Twenty-fourth, Col. Ellison Capers, in Gist's brigade of W. H. T. Walker's division, and Fe Colonel Capers, reporting September 10th, for Gist's brigade, said that on May 6th the brigade mar Cheatham's (under General Maney, and including Gist's brigade) in reserve. General Hardee ordered , right and left, the brigades of Manigault and Gist were each in the line of support to the line of(commanded by Lieut.-Col. James McCullough, General Gist being absent wounded) was on the extreme lep to be crossed at that point. About 1 o'clock Gist's brigade was ordered from the left, and put inrne's, Brown's and Bate's. In Brown's division, Gist's and Gordon's brigades occupied the front and from the left to the right of the regiment, General Gist waved his hat to us, expressed his pride an pierced through the heart. Thus died Gen. S. R. Gist, a gallant son of South Carolina, who hadained. When the generals and field officers of Gist's brigade were either killed or wounded, the co[21 more...]
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Biographical (search)
South Carolina for Jackson, Miss., being assigned to Gist's brigade, and eight days later, while commanding thlonel Capers was wounded. About the last of August, Gist's brigade was sent to General Bragg. It participatetil the battle of Franklin, where he was wounded and Gist was killed. On March 1, 1865, on the, recommendationed brigadier-general and assigned to the command of Gist's brigade. After the war General Capers was electeda at his side, Beauregard relates that noticing Col. S. R. Gist, an aide to General Bee, a young man whom I hadortant stage of the fight Gen. D. H. Hill called for Gist's brigade for dangerous duty, in the performance of to command one of the brigades to be sent under General Gist for the support of Wilmington, and in May, 1863, ordered to Mississippi under the brigade command of Gist. With the forces collected under Gen. J. E. Johnstowo horses were killed under him and he was wounded. Gist alluded to him as the iron-nerved, and General Walke
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)
il, his associates being Col. James Chestnut and General Gist, and the governor ex-officio, a body which was ge coast, until the spring of 1863, when he went with Gist's brigade to Mississippi, participated in the first ce in June, 1861, as second lieutenant of Company D, Gist's rifles, Hampton legion, being mustered into the Cohen assigned as inspector and chief-of-staff to Gen. S. R. Gist, in command on James island, and in April, 1863ssissippi, and served in the same capacity until General Gist was killed at the battle of Franklin, and he himok part in the battle of Pocotaligo, S. C., and with Gist's brigade participated in the campaigns of the army as transferred to Company H, Twenty-fourth regiment, Gist's brigade, with which he was connected until the cloving been transferred to the Twenty-fourth regiment, Gist's brigade, Walker's division, Hardee's corps, army oicer of the port. James T. Williams, a veteran of Gist's brigade, for three terms mayor of Greenville, was
Joseph T. Derry , A. M. , Author of School History of the United States; Story of the Confederate War, etc., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 6, Georgia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 6: (search)
r Taylor, (I) W. F. Moore, (K) A. G. Bedell. It served during 1862 on the Georgia coast. then near Charleston until May, 1863, when it was sent to Mississippi in Gist's brigade; shared in the campaigns that included the battles of Chickamauga and Missionary Ridge; participated in the Atlanta and Tennessee campaigns of 1864, and harleston, in which a Federal gunboat which had ventured past the Confederate batteries was cut off and forced to surrender. In May, 1863, the battalion went with Gist's brigade to Jackson, Miss., to reinforce Gen. J. E. Johnston, who was gathering an army with which to attempt the relief of Vicksburg. After the campaign in nort Johnston at Goldsboro. The following officers succeeded those first named: Lieut.-Cols. A. Littlefield, Leroy Napier and Z. L. Watters, the last named commanding Gist's brigade at the battle of Nashville; Capts. (D) J. A. Hardin, (E) John A. Penn, (F) J. W. Boaz. The Ninth battalion Georgia volunteers had at first the followi
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