Today's HMdb, Historical Marker database wrote about the meeting of two brothers from South Carolina in battle today. Thomas Drayton, brigadier general CSA and Commodore Percival Drayton, on the USS Pocahontas met in battle Nov. 7, 1861 at the Battle of Fort Walker, SC.
Percival was appointed a midshipman in 1827 and brother Thomas graduated from the US Military Academy at West Point in 1828.
At the outbreak of hostilities, they met and shook hands before joining forces with the different sides.
Like They Say, It Was Brother vs. Brother. --Old B'R
The Battle of Fort Fisher, N.C.
