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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[580] battalion was merged in the Twenty-seventh regiment, and as one of the color guard of that command he went into Virginia in the spring of 1864. There he took part in the battles of Port Walthall Junction, Swift Creek, Drewry's Bluff, Wier Bottom Church, Howlett's Farm, Second Cold Harbor, and served for some time in the trenches before Petersburg. He acted as color bearer at Drewry's Bluff and Cold Harbor, and was acting adjutant of the regiment at the time of the battle of June 24th, when he was wounded in the neck. While in hospital from this wound he was taken with typhoid fever, which disabled him for three months. After his recovery he took part in the October fight on the Darbytown road, and in the following winter going with his command to the Carolinas he participated in the campaign under General Johnston as acting adjutant of the regiment until he was captured with a large part of his command at Town Creek. Refusing to go to Fort Delaware with the officers he accompanied his men to Point Lookout, and shared their deprivations until June, 1865. He was a gallant soldier, was promoted to sergeant in 1864, and was recommended for further advancement.

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Thomas Shelton Fox

Thomas Shelton Fox was born at Lexington Court House, S. C., September 1, 1836. He was educated at the university of Virginia and took a medical course there, graduating from that institution in 1858. After spending eighteen months in Blackwell's hospital and optaining a diploma there, he returned to South Carolina and commenced the practice of his profession in Orangeburg county, and was so engaged when the war between the States began. He enlisted in the Confederate service, in April, 1861, as a corporal in the Edisto Rifles, Company A, Hagood's First South Carolina infantry, and served as such until the regiment disbanded after the fall of Fort Sumter. He then became sergeant of Company B, Sixth South Carolina cavalry, serving as such about eight months, when he was appointed assistant surgeon and assigned to the Sixty-sixth North Carolina regiment then stationed at Wilmington, N. C. He served in that capacity until the close of the war and surrendered with Johnston at Greensboro. He participated in the following engagements: Bombardment of Fort Sumter, Bermuda Hundred, Plymouth, N. C., siege of Petersburg,