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Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Additional Sketches Illustrating the services of officers and Privates and patriotic citizens of South Carolina. (search)
a part of Longstreet's corps. His first battle was at Hazel river, August, 1862, and the great struggle of Second Manassas soon followed, in which he was wounded in the left leg; but bandaging the wound himself, he hobbled on and fought at Boonsboro Gap and Sharpsburg, on the second day of the latter battle receiving a wound from a fragment of shell. Walking thence to Staunton, Va., he was sent to hospital at Richmond, and thence home, where both his wounds disabled him until the 1st of December, 1862. Rejoining his command he fought at Fredericksburg, and on December 31st following was promoted to junior second lieutenant. Subsequently he participated in the several weeks of heavy skirmishing before Suffolk and near Blackwater; was on duty with Jenkins' brigade at Richmond and Petersburg, and in the fall of 1863 accompanied Longstreet's command to Chattanooga. He was in battle at Will's valley, near Lookout mountain, and in east Tennessee took part in the engagements at Lenoir