Benjamin T . Brockman Benjamin T . Brockman ( December 11 , 1831 – ca . June 12 , 1864 ) was a merchant and a Confederate officer in the American Civil War . Brockman was born in South Carolina , the eldest son of Colonel and Senator Thomas Patterson Brockman and the granduncle of Tallulah Brockman Bankhead . He was also descended from John Brockman , Jr . , and was the great - nephew of Major Brockman , both of whom were American Revolutionary War veterans in the English Brockman family , a cavalier family that settled in Virginia in the late 17th century . Organizing the Brockman Guards . In the summer of 1861 , Brockman and his brother , Jesse Kilgor Brockman , organized an infantry company in Spartanburg , South Carolina , that became known as " The Brockman Guards " . By September the 13th South Carolina Infantry was officially organized and the Brockman Guards became Company B of that regiment . Brockman was made the Captain of Company B and his brother a lieutenant . He was promoted to lieutenant colonel upon the retirement of P . L . Calhoun , and Jesse Brockman then became the Captain of Company B . Benjamin ran a mercantile business in the Reidville area . Ladies from this area made a flag to commemorate the formation of Company B . It was blue , with gold stars and border . This flag is now housed and preserved in the Confederate Relic Room of the State of South Carolina in Columbia . The reverse side of the flag is an image of a South Carolina coastal scene by A . Grinevald , who was a painting and drawing teacher . Battle of the Bloody Angle . Brockman became Colonel of the 13th Regiment after Col . O . E . Edwards was killed . Benjamin led the 13th from 1863 at the Battle of Chancellorsville and lost an arm in a charge at the " Bloody Angle " near Spotsylvania Court House , May 12 , 1864 . He died one month later in a Richmond hospital from complications of this wound . Jesse was also injured in the charge and lay three days on the battlefield . He died of his wounds in the hospital on May 28 , 1864 . Accounts of the Battle . Here , throughout the afternoon and well into the night , Yankee and Rebel fought each other with relentless determination . Nearby , a 22 - inch oak , whittled in two by the incessant musket and artillery fire , gave testimony to the tenacity of both sides . " Nothing but the piled up logs of breastworks separated the combatants . Our men would reach over the logs and fire into the faces of the enemy , would stab over with their bayonets ; many were shot and stabbed through crevices and holes between logs ; men mounted the works and with muskets rapidly handed them kept up a continuous fire until they were shot down , when others would take their places . " — General L . A . Grant , USA The outnumbered Confederates eventually fell back to a new line , and the battle of May 12 ended . but the fight for the Bloody Angle stood out in sharp contrast from other battles . Its terrible slaughter seemed to signal a shift in each side ' s perception of this war . Never again would Lee have the strength to lead his men north ; now , he fought to survive . Grant , too , left here with a clearer , albeit brutal , image of the future . No matter what the cost , he would fight Lee ' s army until he destroyed it . Burial . Benjamin Brockman is buried at Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond , Virginia . After he was wounded , he wrote his sister , Mrs . Harris , wife of Dr . Harris of Rutherford , North Carolina , the following letter : Captain Jesse K . Brockman . Col . Brockman ' s brother , Jesse K . Brockman , was born April 23 , 1839 . He was married on January 10 , 1861 , to Kittie Bryson . They had two sons .