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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) 5 1 Browse Search
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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)
e was twice married, his first wife being Mary Ann Buchanan, also a native of Ireland, who died in 1858, leaving six children, four sons and two daughters. Dr. James Carlisle was the second son, and he was reared partly at Winnsboro and partly in Camden, S. C. He graduated from South Carolina college in 1844, and at once adopted of Wofford college ever since, a period of forty-four years. He has been its president since 1875, retaining during the entire time the chair of mathematics. Dr. Carlisle's connection with the Southern Confederacy lies in the fact that he was a member of the convention which met at Charleston on December 20, 1860, and passed the ordinance of secession. He is one of the very few of the 160 or more signers of that ordinance living to-day. Dr. Carlisle was married December 12, 1848, to Margaret Jane Bryce, daughter of Robert Bryce, a merchant of Columbia. She died in 1891. They had three children, twos of whom are living. He is one of the best known ed