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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)
fter Sherman had turned that position on his march through the Carolinas, and he took part in the battles of Averasboro and Bentonville, N. C., among the fiercest of that long struggle, and in which the losses were severe for the numbers engaged. He was sick in hospital at Raleigh when the end of the war came—at that time nineteen years of age. Since the war he has pursued the vocation of a farmer in Laurens county, and is also vice-president of the bank of Laurens. He was married, in November, 1869, to Miss Mary E. Wright, daughter of James M. Wright, who was a captain in the Confederate army, and they have six children, three of whom are sons. One of the latter is James Wright Nash, lawyer, of Spartanburg, who was born in Laurens county, August 13, 1870, and graduated from Wofford college in 1890 as an A. B. During the winters of 1890, 1891 and 1892 he taught school, and in the fall of 1892 entered the law department of South Carolina college, of Columbia, from which he graduated