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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 9: (search)
e 15th began his march on the chord, while Lee took the arc. Burnside's plan was to beat Lee to Fredericksburg, cross the river on pontoons and seize the heights, and move upon Richmond from that point. The advance of Burnside's army reached Falmouth on the 17th. Colonel Ball, with a regiment of Virginia cavalry, a regiment of infantry and two batteries of artillery, prevented a crossing and held the city of Fredericksburg. On the 22d, at 8 p. m., General Lee informed President Davis by tf Davis legion, 347 from the Phillips legion, and 34 from the Second South Carolina, a force of 208 men, Hampton crossed the river at Kelly's mill and moved northeast to Morrisville. Learning of an outpost stationed at a church 8 miles east of Falmouth, immediately on Burnside's right flank, and on the road from Morrisville to Fredericksburg, General Hampton at once determined upon its capture. The pickets of this outpost were advanced toward Morrisville as far as Deep run, a tributary of the
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)
was appointed treasurer of Richland county, an office to which he was re-elected three times. During the administration of President Cleveland and for several months afterward he held the office of postmaster of the city. Since then he has been engaged in dealing in machinery, also is vice-president of the Central national bank, vice-president of the electric light company, and president of the Richland wine company. By his marriage, in 1860, to Jane, daughter of Dr. A. H. Mason, of Falmouth, Va., he has five children living: Wade Hampton, Jr., Jane M., Frances G., Alexander M. and Frank Huger. Lieutenant Stephen Capers Gilbert, commander of Rhett camp, U. C. V., Charleston, was born in Colleton county, in 1838, but was reared from infancy in the city. After the secession of South Carolina he left his occupation as a conductor on the South Carolina railroad, and enlisted in March, 1861, as a private in the Brooks Guards, then a part of the Seventeenth regiment. He served wit