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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)
and sister of the late Dr. Hardy, of Asheville. B. C. Jennings was reared in Union county on a farm and adopted the occupation of a farmer for himself. Shortly after the bombardment of Fort Sumter he volunteered and served in a South Carolina company and regiment until September 14, 1864, when he was killed in battle at Petersburg, Va. He was a private and a sharpshooter, and fought in many of the great battles of the army of Northern Virginia. He was twice married, first in 1848, to Jane E. Kelly, daughter of William Kelly. This lady died in 1861, leaving two sons: Lucius B., who died in 1873, and John K., who is now a lawyer at Spartanburg. It was soon after the death of his first wife that he enlisted in the Confederate army, and in September, 1863, while on leave of absence, Mr. Jennings was married to Mrs. Lucy Humphries, who died in 1868, leaving one son, Benson Coke Jennings, who died in 1891. John K. Jennings is the only surviving child. He was born in Union county, Mar