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(1838 - 1907)
Home State: South Carolina
Education: Beaufort College, Harvard University, University of Virginia Law
Command Billet: Battery Commander
Branch of Service: Artillery
Unit: Brooks (SC) Artillery
Before Sharpsburg
He was admitted to the bar in Charleston in 1861. He enrolled there for one years' service on 12 May 1861 and mustered as First Lieutenant of the Brooks Guard - Company K, 2nd South Carolina Infantry - on 22 or 23 May. He and most of the company formed the Brooks Light Artillery under Captain Rhett, and he mustered with them as senior First Lieutenant at Manassas, VA on 28 January 1862.
On the Campaign
He commanded the battery as senior officer present in Maryland.
The rest of the War
He was appointed First Lieutenant (PACS) and Assistant Adjutant General to Brigadier General Stephen D. Lee on 4 October 1862 (to date from 1 July) and promoted to Captain on 10 January 1863. He was captured with the garrison at Vicksburg, MS on 4 July 1863 and paroled the next day. He was promoted again, to Major on 3 August 1863 and by November 1864 was S.D. Lee's Inspector General. He was wounded by a gunshot to his left hip at Bentonville, NC in March 1865, was in hospitals in Raleigh and Charlotte, NC, then sent home to Camden, SC.
After the War
He returned to Beaufort and established a law practice there. He was elected to the South Carolina State House of Representatives in 1866 and to the US House in 1887. He served several terms in the House to 1903.
References & notes
His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, and Staff Officers.2 Personal details from a bio sketch from the University of Virginia and his Congressional Biography,3 which also hosts a fine post-war portrait etching of him. His gravesite is on Findagrave. Thanks to Toni Fazzini for the pointer to his picture.
Birth
09/03/1838; Beaufort, SC
Death
12/03/1907; Beaufort, SC; burial in Saint Helena's Episcopal Churchyard, Beaufort, SC
1 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, Record Group No. 109 (War Department Collection of Confederate Records), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 31155]
2 Krick, Robert E.L., Staff Officers in Gray; A Biographical Register of the Staff Officers in the Army of Northern Virginia, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003, p. 326 [AotW citation 31156]
3 US Congress, Congressional Biographical Directory, Published c. 2000, first accessed 01 January 2002, <https://bioguide.congress.gov/>, Source page: /search/bio/E000129 [AotW citation 25398]