Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina
Clement Anselm Evans, Ed.

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[586] war began, and enlisted in the Confederate service March 16, 1861, in the Palmetto Guards, Company I, Second South Carolina infantry, Kershaw's regiment, as a private and served as such until September 17, 1861. He was then elected second lieutenant of a new company, which was formed in Sumter county and became Company E, Seventh South Carolina battalion, Hagood's brigade, Hoke's division, Gen. Richard Anderson's corps. He served as second lieutenant until November 6, 1862, when he was made first lieutenant, and in May, 1863, was promoted to captain, serving during the remainder of the war with that rank. In November, 1864, he was detailed to command 100 picked men of Hagood's brigade, selected as sharpshooters, which company he commanded until the surrender at Greensboro, N. C. He participated in the bombardment of Fort Sumter, Pocotaligo, attack on Morris island, July 9, 1861; storming of Battery Wagner, July 11 and 18, 1863; Walthall Junction, Bermuda Hundred, Drewry's Bluff, Second Cold Harbor, siege of Petersburg, Weldon Railroad, Fort Harrison, Fort Anderson, battle near Wilmington, Northeast River, evacuation of Wilmington, and Bentonville. After the surrender he returned home and engaged in farming until 1886, in which year he was elected treasurer of Sumter county, filling that position four years. In 1893 he received the appointment of postmaster of the city of Sumter, which place he filled until 1898. He is at present chairman of the board of education of Sumter. He was married December 19, 1867, to Miss Rachel Jackson, and they have five children: Anna Baker, Pauline Peyre, Samuel Porcher, Charles Jackson and Philip Porcher, Jr.

Lieutenant William Leonard Galloway, M. D., of Darlington, was born at Lydia, Darlington county, S. C., in 1841, and was educated at the public schools of that county. In January, 1861, at the beginning of Southern trouble, he enlisted in Company F, Eighth South Carolina infantry, as a private. In the spring of the same year a reorganization was ordered in which he was elected second lieutenant of Company M of the same regiment. He held this position through the great early battles and those around Richmond, at the last of which (Malvern Hill) he was shot through the ankle, as the result of which he lost his leg, making his retirement