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South Carolina C.S.A.
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Furman University and The Sixteenth
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Her men of the Sixteenth and Greenville County. These selections are from Thomas' book, History of the South Carolina Military Academy 1783-1892. General Ellison Capers The Fighting Bishop Class of 1857 Anderson District Assistant Instructor Citadel -58 Principal, Mt. Zion School, Winnsboro -59 Assistant Professor Citadel-60-61 Major and Lt. Colonel of First Regiment of Rifles 12-60 to 12-61 Lt. Colonel of the Twenty-fourth South Carolina Commanding first attack on enemy, James Island, June of 1862 Commanding flank battery siege guns Battle of Seccessionville, June 16, 1862 Commanding 24th Regiment and wounded, battle of Wright's Farm, Jackson, Mississippi, May 14, 1863 Wounded in Battle Chickamauga, Ga., September 20, 1863 Promoted Colonel, Command of the 24th Regiment, December 1863 Johnson and Hood's Campaign of Atlanta, Ga. Wounded at Battle of Franklin, November 30, 1864 Promoted Brigadier General, Gist Brigade January, 1865 Surrendered with Johnson, May, 1865 Elected Secretary of State in December of 1865 Entered Ministry Episcopal Church, 1867 Rector Christ Church, Greenville, SC, 1867-1875 Rector of St. Paul's Church, Selma, Alabama, 1876 Rector Christ Church, Greenville, SC, 1876-1887 Rector Trinity Church, Columbia, SC, 1887 Doctor of Divinity, University of South Carolina, 1888 Secretary and Treasurer of the Board of Mission and member General convention of the P.E. Church for the Diocese of South Carolina. Bishop of the Diocese of South Carolina (Following publication of Thomas' work.) Capers maintained a home in Columbia, during his years working with the University of the South. Colonel Benjamin B. Smith Class of 1855 Georgetown Physician Williamsburg District First Lieutenant, Engineers, South Carolina, 1861 Captain, Eleventh Regiment, Twelve-Month Volunteers, May 1861 Major, September, 1861 Major, Second Battalion Sharpshooters, June, 1862 Unit Disbanded, December 1862 Staff of General Gist Wounded at Franklin Promoted Colonel, Commander of 16th and 24th Consolidated, 1865 Civil Engineer, U.S.C. Engineer in charge of Sixth Lighthouse District, Station at Charleston, S.C. William Allston Gibbs Class of 1859-1861 No District Appointed Drill Master by Governor Pickens' and assigned to the Sixteenth Regiment, SCV Enlisted as a Private for the war in that regiment. Elected Second Lieutenant Promoted First Lieutenant Promoted Captain, 12-63 Captain Company C, Consolidated 16th and 24th Regiments Served until surrender at High Point, North Carolina, April 26, 1865 Served in South Carolina and Western Theatre Seriously wounded, June 20, 1864, Atlanta Campaign Disabled six months Varied railroad service 1865-1879 Union Ticket Agent, Augusta, Ga. 1879 to date of publication Lieutenant Charles E. Thomas Class of 1860-1861 Fairfield District Orderly Sergeant, Croft's Company, Sixteenth South Carolina Service in North and South Carolina Army of the West 1863 Disabled by Sickness Lieutenant and Instructor C.S.A. In charge of camp of instruction at Columbia, SC, 1865 Merchant and Farmer Trial Officer Legislator Lay Reader at St. Stephens, Ridgeway, SC Died 2/1/1887 Lieutenant B.T. Gibbs Class of 1862-1863 No District Lt, Company D, 16th South Carolina Served in Georgia Furloughed on account of sickness Died Columbia, SC, March 12, 1864 Aged 17 years and 9 months "I am not afraid to die." Sergeant T.G. Croft Class of 1862-1865 Edgefield Drillmaster, Sergeant, Company C, Sixteenth South Carolina University of Virginia 1866-67 Business in Georgia 1867-1873 Physician, 1875-1892 Established in Aiken, South Carolina Other Citadel men associated with Greenville County. J.P. Southern, Class of 1847, Auditor and Treasurer of the Greenville and Columbia Railroad, Banker at Columbia, S.C., Civil Engineer, Died 1855 J.D. Powell, Class of 1848, Merchant, Chattanooga, Tennessee, Captain P.A.C.S. H.L. Thurston, Class of 1849, Lawyer, Died 1861 W.R. Powell, Class of 1851, Civil engineer, Volunteer 1861, Promoted First Lieutenant, Second Regiment, Wounded at Gettysburg, In battle Chickamauga, Captain; in California, 1879 A.D. Hoke, Class of 1854, Physician, Captain, Second Regiment, 12 month volunteers, Severely wounded in battle at Manassas No. 1; practicing medicine in Greenville, died 1876 H.S. Thompson, Class of 1856 Second Lieutenant and Assistant Professor, Arsenal Academy, January 1858; Professor French, Arsenal Academy, January, 1859; First Lieutenant, June, 1861; Principal Columbia Male Academy, August, 1865; elected State Superintendent of Education, November, 1876; re-elected, 1878 and 1880; Elected Governor, November 1882; re-elected November, 1884; Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, 1886-1889, Appointed by Cleveland; Democratic Member of Civil Service Commission, 1893; Resigned to accept office of Compt. N.Y. Life Insurance Company. H.B. D'Oyley, Class of 1857, Teacher Murfreesboro, Tennessee, Died, 1859 J.K. Garmany, Class of 1857, Volunteer Service C.S.N., Merchant in Savannah, Died 189- J.S. Austin, Class of 1861, Entered Confederate Army soon after graduation with the rank of Captain, Served in Virginia and Georgia; was assigned to duty at the Georgia Military Institute as Commandant of Cadets in the fall of 1863 and commanded the Corp of Cadets in the field from the spring of 1864 to the surrender; Professor at Maryland Military Institute in 1868; Professor in Kentucky Military of A.M.; President of Franklin Female College, Franklin, Kentucky; Aide de Camp to Governor of Kentucky with rank of Colonel; President of Pacific Methodist College, Santa Rosa, California. R. Croft, Class of 1861, Volunteer Cavalry, Hampton Legion, June, 1861; Lieutentant, First South Carolina Artillery, January, 1862, Served in Fort Sumter, Died, 1862 George W. Wells, Class of 1862, Professor Hillsboro Military Academy, Professor Citadel, 1863, Captain, Hillsboro Military Academy, Lawyer, Greenville, S.C. Gerard B. Dyer, Class of 1863, Volunteer Second S.C. May, 1862; Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, Chickamauga and Bean's Station; Killed in battle near Richmond, Virginia, June, 1864 Others: Edward Croft, Class of 1856 Captain, Fourteenth S.C.; Wounded at Cold Harbor; Major, Severely wounded at Gettysburg, Lt. Colonel, Fourteenth S.C.; Member of Board of Visitors, The Citadel; Lawyer at Greenville, Trial Justice, Died 1892. |
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Unpublished work furnished by friends in the historical community. Supplemented by my own work, the errors are mine. Please note these are only matching names and only the men found in the 16th or the P.B.L.A. |
| Alexander, R.H. | Greenville, 56 | Company B, Sixteenth, Captain (Possible Match) |
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| Brooks, J.L. | Greenville, S.C., 55-60 | Company A, Sixteenth, Sgt. |
| Burn, R.L. | Greenville, 60 | Company A, Sixteenth, Lt. |
| Carlisle, J.H. | Greenville, 78-79 | Listed as serving in Captain Goodlett's Company Only one Captain Goodlett from S.C.; Captain B. Goodlett, Company K, Sixteenth |
| Croft, T.G. | Greenville, 57 | Company C, Sixteeth, Capt. 16/24 Consolidated, Major |
| David, James J. | Greenville, 55-60 Killed in the battles for Atlanta | Company B and D, Sixteenth South Carolina |
| Dill, Edward | Greenville, 49-60 St. Louis, Post-War | Company C, Sixteenth Also a man of same name listed as a Chaplain in the 22nd South Carolina |
| Duncan, James Merriweather | Greenville, 59-60 Died 1872 | Company C, Sixteenth, Lt.; Company B, Second S.C. |
| Evans, Isadore | Greenville, 59 Born: 1843 | Company B, Sixteenth, First Sergeant |
| Farr, W. Baylis | 53-56, Greenville | Company A, Sixteenth, Private Served as a Lt. in Reserves and in Commissary. |
| Foster, John S. | Greenville, 53-54 | Company K, Sixteenth |
| Furman, Charles Manning | Greenville, 53-59 Born:1840 Clemson Professor | Company H, Sixteenth, Captain Second South Carolina |
| Goldsmith, William Henry | Greenville, 59-60 (1846-1864) | Company A, Sixteenth Second South Carolina Served in both Company B, Second S.C. and as a Lieutenant in Company B, Sixteeth KIA, Kennesaw Mtn. on June 20, 1864. |
| Gwinn, J.T. | York, 54-57 Baptist Preacher | Company F, Sixteenth South Carolina |
| Jacobs, Richard H. | Greenville, 53 | Company B, Sixteenth |
| Jeter, J.C.P. | Union, 52-55 | Company A, Sixteenth, Quartermaster Sergeant |
| Long, William G. | Greenville, 54 | Company K, Sixteenth South Carolina, Cpl. |
| Mauldin, W.L. | Greenville, 55-60 Born: 1845 | Company A, Sixteenth South Carolina, Sergeant Second South Carolina Cavalry |
| Mims, Samuel P. | Greenville, 54-60 Killed in the Battles for Atlanta | Company A, Sixteenth, Lt. |
| O'Neill, C.C. | Greenville, 59-60 Killed in battles for Atlanta | Staff, Sixteenth South Carolina, Major |
| Phillips, W.E | Greenville, 57-60 | Company F, Sixteenth South Carolina, Lt. |
| Roberts, Edward G. | Greenville, 52-56 Atlanta in 1899 | Company I, Sixteenth South Carolina, Capt. |
| Taylor, James H. | Spartanburg, 1869 Born: 1843 Wounded Kennesaw Mountain | Company F, Sixteenth South Carolina, Company F |
| Twitty, Charles R. | Greenville, 59-60 | Company A, Sixteenth South Carolina, Sergeant |
| Blackburn, George W. | Laurens, 54-60 Died in Army | Company A, P.B.L.A. |
| Dargan, James Furman | Darlington 55-59 | P.B.L.A. |
| Furman, James Franklin | Greenville, 52-60 MD | Company A, P.B.L.A. |
| Gaines, T.P. | Newberry, 57-58 Killed in Confederate Service | Company A, P.B.L.A. |
| Hawkins, Perry | Greenville, 66 Baptist Preacher, Texas | Company A, P.B.L.A. |
| Scaife, C.T. | Unionville Born: 1840 | Company A, P.B.L.A. |
| Stokes, Edward F. | Greenville, 53-57 | Palmetto Artillery |
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