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Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Additional Sketches Illustrating the services of officers and Privates and patriotic citizens of South Carolina. (search)
ce more became a farmer. He was married in 1859 to Miss Elizabeth Miller Caldwell, daughter of James M. Caldwell, of Charleston. William W. F. Bright William W. F. Bright, of Pickens county, S. C., was born in Blount county, Tenn., December 19, 1840, and is the son of David and Jane (Key) Bright. His mother is a cousin of Judge D. M. Key, of Tennessee, and distantly related to Francis S. Key, author of the Star Spangled Banner. He was reared in Blount county and volunteered on August 13, 1861, as a private in Company E, Fifth Tennessee battalion of cavalry. Upon reorganization in 1862 his company became Company K, Second Tennessee cavalry, and in this he served to the end of the war. In the early part of the war he served in the department of East Tennessee, but from the battle of Chickamauga to the end his command belonged to Gen. Joe Wheeler's cavalry. He therefore served under that gallant leader from the fall of 1863 to the close of the war, taking part in the battles