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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) 2 0 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)
o Sarah Howze, he has five children living. Captain George W. Cox, born in Anderson, three miles from Belton, S. C., March 6, 1832, is the son of Capt. William Cox, who was a captain in the State militia before the war and who was born in Anderson county in 1804, was a farmer and died in 1857. This grandfather of Captain Cox was likewise named William and came to South Carolina from Virginia. His mother was Margaret Grubbs, a native of Abbeville county, born in 1806, the daughter of Richard Grubbs. She died in 1878. Captain Cox was reared in Anderson county on a farm. For some ten years prior to the war he served in the State militia, two years as a first lieutenant and eight years as major. Prior to the war his occupation was that of a farmer. In June, 1861, he entered the Confederate service as a member of Company K, Orr's First regiment of Rifles, and was elected captain of the company in the beginning. He commanded this company in the battle of Gaines' Mill, June 27, 1862