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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)
ls was born in Pickens county, S. C., at a town called Central, August 26, 1833. His father was William D. C. Daniels, a native of Charlotte, N. C., and a tailor by trade. His mother was Frances Grant. Captain Daniels' early life was spent at Pendleton, S. C. In 1852 he graduated from the Citadel military academy of Charleston and from that time until the beginning of the war was occupied as a teacher and surveyor. In February, 1861, six weeks before the attack on Fort Sumter, he joined Gwinn's engineer corps on Morris island. Later in the same year he enlisted as second lieutenant in Company K, Fourth South Carolina regiment, and went to Virginia. Receiving an order from Judah P. Benjamin, secretary of war, to raise a company, he was instrumental in organizing Company L, Palmetto sharpshooters, of which he was elected first lieutenant and later promoted captain. While in command of this company at the battle of Seven Pines he was severely wounded. He lay in hospital two year
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)
ls was born in Pickens county, S. C., at a town called Central, August 26, 1833. His father was William D. C. Daniels, a native of Charlotte, N. C., and a tailor by trade. His mother was Frances Grant. Captain Daniels' early life was spent at Pendleton, S. C. In 1852 he graduated from the Citadel military academy of Charleston and from that time until the beginning of the war was occupied as a teacher and surveyor. In February, 1861, six weeks before the attack on Fort Sumter, he joined Gwinn's engineer corps on Morris island. Later in the same year he enlisted as second lieutenant in Company K, Fourth South Carolina regiment, and went to Virginia. Receiving an order from Judah P. Benjamin, secretary of war, to raise a company, he was instrumental in organizing Company L, Palmetto sharpshooters, of which he was elected first lieutenant and later promoted captain. While in command of this company at the battle of Seven Pines he was severely wounded. He lay in hospital two year
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)
ls was born in Pickens county, S. C., at a town called Central, August 26, 1833. His father was William D. C. Daniels, a native of Charlotte, N. C., and a tailor by trade. His mother was Frances Grant. Captain Daniels' early life was spent at Pendleton, S. C. In 1852 he graduated from the Citadel military academy of Charleston and from that time until the beginning of the war was occupied as a teacher and surveyor. In February, 1861, six weeks before the attack on Fort Sumter, he joined Gwinn's engineer corps on Morris island. Later in the same year he enlisted as second lieutenant in Company K, Fourth South Carolina regiment, and went to Virginia. Receiving an order from Judah P. Benjamin, secretary of war, to raise a company, he was instrumental in organizing Company L, Palmetto sharpshooters, of which he was elected first lieutenant and later promoted captain. While in command of this company at the battle of Seven Pines he was severely wounded. He lay in hospital two year
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)
ls was born in Pickens county, S. C., at a town called Central, August 26, 1833. His father was William D. C. Daniels, a native of Charlotte, N. C., and a tailor by trade. His mother was Frances Grant. Captain Daniels' early life was spent at Pendleton, S. C. In 1852 he graduated from the Citadel military academy of Charleston and from that time until the beginning of the war was occupied as a teacher and surveyor. In February, 1861, six weeks before the attack on Fort Sumter, he joined Gwinn's engineer corps on Morris island. Later in the same year he enlisted as second lieutenant in Company K, Fourth South Carolina regiment, and went to Virginia. Receiving an order from Judah P. Benjamin, secretary of war, to raise a company, he was instrumental in organizing Company L, Palmetto sharpshooters, of which he was elected first lieutenant and later promoted captain. While in command of this company at the battle of Seven Pines he was severely wounded. He lay in hospital two year