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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 13: (search)
his direction, and his name, with those of others hereafter to be mentioned, who gave their lives in its defense, will be forever commemorated in its history. Gillmore's third demonstration, on July 10th, the attempt to cut the railroad at Jacksonboro, was a failure. It was made by Col. T. W. Higginson, commanding a regiment of recently enlisted negroes. With three armed steamers he ascended the South Edisto under the cover of a dense fog, until arrested at Willtown bluff by the obstructerates, a section of artillery, without infantry supports, was surprised in camp and driven off, 2 men being taken prisoners. Removing the obstructions, Colonel Higginson steamed up the river with the purpose of burning the railroad bridge at Jacksonboro. At Dr. Glover's plantation, about 3 miles from the bridge, he encountered a section of Capt. George Walter's battery, under Lieut. S. G. Horsey, and after an action of an hour's duration the boats were beaten and turned down stream. Col. H.
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 to the position of chief clerk of the board of control, South Carolina dispensary. The four lieutenants of Captain Webb's company were W. H. Chapman, J. A. Brux, R. E. Mellichamp and T. M. Hasel, all of whom have crossed the river, excepting the gallant Mellichamp, who still lives in Charleston. Lieutenant Robert Singleton Weeks entered the State service in the fall of 1861 with the Eighteenth South Carolina militia, and did duty as an orderly-sergeant on the coast near Jacksonboro, for about five or six weeks. In the latter part of 1861 the regiment was disbanded and Sergeant Weeks enlisted in Company C, Twenty-fourth South Carolina infantry, January 2, 1862, and served again as orderly-sergeant for a year, when he was elected second lieutenant of his company. Lieutenant Weeks was in command of his company from July, 1864, to the end of the war, and but for the sudden close of hostilities would have received a commission as captain. His battle record includes the