[901] Chickamauga and Missionary Ridge, Tenn. His regiment was placed in winter quarters at Dalton, Ga., and for awhile he acted as adjutant of the regiment, then commanded by Col. (later Gen.) Ellison Capers. After the commencement of the Atlanta campaign he was engaged in the battles of Resaca, Ringgold, Kenesaw and the general operations of Johnston's army on to Atlanta, participating also in the battles around Atlanta, at Peachtree creek and Jonesboro, Ga. After the latter fight he marched with Hood to Franklin, Tenn., where he commanded his company. Here he was shot in the right side, but the ball struck a pocket Testament and glancing wounded him slightly in the right arm. Although thus wounded he went with his command and shared with them in the battle near Nashville and surrendered with them at Greensboro. After the surrender he returned home to remain. Lieutenant Weeks was born in 1840 in Colleton district, now Dorchester county, and received his education there and at St. George. He was married in 1866 in Orangeburg county to Eugenia C. Inabinet, and they have five children living: Alice Catherine, wife of W. A. Kingman; William J. Pressley, Adeline G., wife of J. L. B. Warren; Robert H., and Richard L. His father, Jacob Weeks, a farmer and citizen of fine character, was born in 1811, in Georgia, and died in 1892. He served the Confederacy as a lieutenant in the reserves. Lieutenant Weeks had two brothers also in the Southern service, John J., a private from the beginning, in Company C, Twenty-fourth South Carolina regiment, who was severely wounded at Chickamauga and died in Augusta, Ga., in 1865, before the surrender, of disease contracted in the service; and James M., living in Dorchester, who was a private in the Second South Carolina volunteer heavy artillery, and served from the fall of 1863 to the close.
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[901] Chickamauga and Missionary Ridge, Tenn. His regiment was placed in winter quarters at Dalton, Ga., and for awhile he acted as adjutant of the regiment, then commanded by Col. (later Gen.) Ellison Capers. After the commencement of the Atlanta campaign he was engaged in the battles of Resaca, Ringgold, Kenesaw and the general operations of Johnston's army on to Atlanta, participating also in the battles around Atlanta, at Peachtree creek and Jonesboro, Ga. After the latter fight he marched with Hood to Franklin, Tenn., where he commanded his company. Here he was shot in the right side, but the ball struck a pocket Testament and glancing wounded him slightly in the right arm. Although thus wounded he went with his command and shared with them in the battle near Nashville and surrendered with them at Greensboro. After the surrender he returned home to remain. Lieutenant Weeks was born in 1840 in Colleton district, now Dorchester county, and received his education there and at St. George. He was married in 1866 in Orangeburg county to Eugenia C. Inabinet, and they have five children living: Alice Catherine, wife of W. A. Kingman; William J. Pressley, Adeline G., wife of J. L. B. Warren; Robert H., and Richard L. His father, Jacob Weeks, a farmer and citizen of fine character, was born in 1811, in Georgia, and died in 1892. He served the Confederacy as a lieutenant in the reserves. Lieutenant Weeks had two brothers also in the Southern service, John J., a private from the beginning, in Company C, Twenty-fourth South Carolina regiment, who was severely wounded at Chickamauga and died in Augusta, Ga., in 1865, before the surrender, of disease contracted in the service; and James M., living in Dorchester, who was a private in the Second South Carolina volunteer heavy artillery, and served from the fall of 1863 to the close.
Atlanta, Ga. 1899.
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