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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[913] Revolution, and his great-grandfather was also a soldier in the same war, and was killed in the battle of Hayes' Station. From the age of ten years he was reared at Greenville, where he has resided ever since, caring for his agricultural interests in Greenville county and the ancestral farm in Newberry county. He was graduated at Furman university in 1861, and immediately entered the Confederate service as an ordnance officer of Earle's battery of light artillery. With this command he served mainly on the coast between Savannah and Charleston, where his command took a conspicuous part in the battle of Honey Hill, being the only battery engaged and contributing largely to the decisive victory. During the campaign of 1865 he was with the battery attached to the cavalry, fighting on the rear guard of Johnston's army, and participating in numerous skirmishes as well as in the battles of Averasboro and Bentonville. Mr. Whitmire was with his battery throughout its entire service, performing his duties in a manner to win the cordial approbation of his superior officers. Since the war he has resided at Greenville, where in 1894 he was appointed magistrate by the governor, and reappointed in 1896. He is a member of Pulliam camp, U. C. V. In 1870 he was married to Angelina C. Reeder, of Newberry county, and they have a son and daughter, the former, Leonard Andrews Whitmire, serving in the volunteer army of the United States in the late war with Spain.

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Benjamin F. Whitner

Benjamin F. Whitner, of Anderson, S. C., was born in that city in the same house in which he now resides, February 22, 1835. His father, Judge Joseph N. Whitner, a native of Pendleton district, born April 13, 1799, was a lawyer by profession, represented Pendleton district in both branches of the State legislature, served as judge of the court of common pleas and general session, and was a member of the South Carolina secession convention and one of the signers of the ordinance of secession. He died March 31, 1864, not living to see the result of the the war, which proved so disastrous to his cherished hopes. He was one of the most ardent State rights men of his State. His wife was Elizabeth Hampton Harrison, to whom he was married in January, 1828. She was the daughter of James Harrison, grand-niece of Gen. Wade Hampton of Revolutionary fame and a second cousin of