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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[534] We knew of no citizen who, without seeking office, was better qualified for any office. No citizen entered this war with higher purposes or motives, and no officer has a better and clearer record than he. Called on by the voices of friends and neighbors, who knew him well, as well as by other portions of the regiment and company officers, he was elected lieutenant-colonel of the Twentieth South Carolina volunteers. In organizing and drilling that regiment he did noble service, and acquired the confidence of the regiment and of all officers who had occasion or opportunities for witnessing his labors and qualifications. There was nothing desired or required in an officer that the regiment did not confidently expect to find in their esteemed Dantzler. Having shown his merits through a long and terrible ordeal near this city and on Morris island, he was selected by the general of this department to fill a vacancy in the command of the Twenty-second South Carolina volunteers. It was with regret the Twentieth parted with him—regret that he shared and expressed—but the call of duty was imperative and was to him controlling. His qualifications were so well known and admitted, that both regiments not only acquiesced in but approved his transfer to the Twenty-second. He has fallen on the first exposure in the field after a long and honorable tour of duty in garrison and post, and in exemplary daring at the front and head of his regiment. As a soldier he will worthily claim a place on the list of our martyrs, and among the names which will be embalmed in the memories and blazoned on the banners of bereaved and decimated regiments, there will be none nobler than Olin M. Dantzler.

Colonel Dantzler left surviving him five sons, none of whom was old enough to enlist for the service of his country, the oldest of them being only ten years of age when their father gave his life for the independence of the Southern Confederacy.

Glenn Edwin Davis, since 1883 city sheriff of Charleston, was born in Fairfield district, in 1843, but was reared from the age of four years in the city. Several of his ancestors were officers in the Revolutionary army. In 1858 he entered the military academy at Murfreesboro, Tenn., and in 1860 became a cadet in the Citadel academy at Charleston. He left this institution with the