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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[756] Laurens county, and in December, 1861, at the age of sixteen years, he joined Company E, Fourteenth South Carolina regiment, as a volunteer private. He served with this command at Port Royal, Gaines' Mill, Malvern Hill, Second Manassas, Ox Hill, Sharpsburg, and Fredericksburg. At the latter place he received a wound which rendered him unfit for further service, and which resulted in the amputation of his left leg twenty-two years after the close of the war. During this entire period he suffered great agony, which nothing could relieve but amputation. Since the war he has been a farmer and merchant. He was elected county treasurer in 1890, and re-elected in 1892 and 1894. He was married in 1872 to Rosanna McHugh and they have three living children.

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James Douglas Montgomery

James Douglas Montgomery was fourteen years old at the beginning of the war, but enlisted in the fall of 1864, in Company L, Second regiment, South Carolina State troops, as a private, and served with that company until it was disbanded at Spartanburg after Johnston's surrender. He was fortunate in having no experience of a great battle, but shared danger with his company in several skirmishes. He was with the forces that defended the Savannah railroad in 1865, thus enabling General Hardee to make his retreat from Savannah. He was also at the evacuation of Charleston, being among the last to leave that city. From 1865 to 1870 he was employed as a clerk and then commenced farming in Marion county. In 1882 he was appointed supervisor of registration, which position he held eight years, and in 1894 he was elected treasurer of Marion county, and re-elected in 1896 and 1898. In 1895 he became proprietor and editor of the Marion Star at Marion. He is a member of Camp Marion, U. C. V. Mr. Montgomery's family consists of his wife, who was Miss Mary Jane Watson, of Marion, whom he married in 1873, and their seven children: Nannie, State librarian at Columbia; Minnie, business manager of the Marion Star; Flatwood, Lena, James, Rowland, Watson and Mamie. He was chairman of the Democratic party of Marion county from 1890 to 1898 and is also a member of the Democratic executive committee of the State. He was a member of the State constitutional convention that met in Columbia