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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[600] for about three months. After his release he was pastor of Zion church at Charleston until 1876, when he was elected to the chair of systematic theology in Columbia seminary, where he remained, with the exception of a year's pastorate of the Second church at Columbia, until age compelled his retirement.

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Lieutenant Benjamin Franklin Glenn

Lieutenant Benjamin Franklin Glenn was born in Laurens county, S. C., February 28, 1836. He removed with his mother to Anderson in 1852, his father having died prior to that time, and in 1855 was married to Cynthia E. Watson, daughter of Daniel K. and Susannah (Gary) Watson. They had a family of three sons: James Lawrence, Daniel Ashmore, and William Henry. The second son, Daniel Ashmore, is dead. Of the other two, James L. resides in Anderson, S. C., and William Henry is a farmer, residing near Anderson. After his marriage, Mr. Glenn settled with his young wife on a farm near Slabtown, where six happy and successful years were spent. But war's rude alarm rang through the land and called from the happy home the husband and father. He was among the first to respond to the call to arms in defense of his country, and was made second lieutenant of Company F, Second South Carolina rifles. For a time he served with his regiment on the coast of South Carolina, and when McClellan was gathering his hosts for a mighty onslaught on the capital of the Confederacy, the Second South Carolina rifles were sent to Virginia to reinforce Lee, and here in the Seven Days battles around Richmond he received his baptism of fire in command of his company, the captain being sick and he having in the meantime been promoted to first lieutenant. At Gaines' Mill, Frayser's Farm and Malvern Hill he acted the part of a brave and skillful officer and greatly endeared himself to his men. But he was a sick man before he entered the fight. Typhoid fever had laid its deadly hand upon him and from this he died at a private house on August 7, 1862, before his devoted wife, who had been notified of his illness, could reach him. His remains were removed to Anderson county and he sleeps peacefully at Mountain Creek cemetery.

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Colonel Thomas Jamison Glover

Colonel Thomas Jamison Glover was born in Orangeburg, S. C., July 30, 1830. He was educated at the schools of Orangeburg and at the South Carolina college,