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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)
lery. He was identified with the subsequent record of his command, in defense of the State and the Confederacy, fighting gallantly at Bee's Creek, Coosawhatchie, Columbia, at Binnaker's bridge on the Edisto, and in the last important battle at Bentonville, N. C. After the surrender at Greensboro he walked and rode to Charleston, reaching the city with $1.25 in his pocket, and then found employment as a clerk for two or three years. Subsequently studying law in the office of Duryea, Durgen & Cohen, he was admitted to practice in 1878. In 1881-82 and 1889-90 he represented Charleston county in the South Carolina legislature. In 1890 he was appointed trial justice by Governor Richardson, an office which he held until the Tillman administration. In 1894 he was elected without opposition to the office of probate judge, and re-elected in 1898. He is active in politics and influential in municipal affairs. An older brother of Judge Bolger, Thomas W., served as second lieutenant of the