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

Gabriel Edward Manigault, M. D., a scholarly and accomplished gentleman of Charleston and a member of the faculty of the college of Charleston, is a native of that city, born January 6, 1833. At the age of thirteen years he was sent to Paris, where he completed the fifth and sixth classes in the College Bourbon. Then returning to Charleston he was graduated at the college of that city in 1852. His inclination to scientific research impelled him to the study of medicine, and in 1854 he was graduated at the medical college of South Carolina, after which he continued his reading and investigations at Paris during the years 1854, 1855 and 1856. On his return to Charleston he did not enter the active practice of the profession which he had mastered, but devoted himself to the management of an extensive rice plantation which he owned on the Cooper river. In January, 1861, with enthusiastic devotion to his State, he enlisted as a private in the Charleston light dragoons, and he continued to serve with this troop of cavalry on duty in the State, as a private, until in March, 1864, it was assigned as Company K to the Fourth regiment, South Carolina cavalry. He was then appointed adjutant of the regiment, and in this capacity he was on duty in Virginia under General Hampton, and took part in the battle of Louisa Court House, which preceded the famous cavalry fight at Trevilian's. In the first-named engagement, in June, 1864, he was captured by the enemy, and from that date until March, 1865, was held as a prisoner of war, first at Point Lookout and then at Fort Delaware. During his service in South Carolina he was wounded in the face at the battle of Pocotaligo. After the close of hostilities Dr. Manigault continued to be occupied as a rice planter until 1873, in 1866 receiving the honor of election to the legislature. He was elected in 1873 to the chair of natural history and geology of the college of Charleston, and having specially fitted himself by study at Paris was appointed curator of the museum. The latter he found in a chaotic state, and inadequate for its purpose, but by a labor of love he has greatly increased its scope, and made it one of the choicest and best arranged in the country. Donning a workman's clothes he constructed with his own hands the