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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)
s, having served as a soldier in the Revolution. His father, Samuel S. Tompkins, born in Edgefield county, in 1819, was one of eight brothers in the Confederate army, and after his first service under General Bonham, raised a company of which he was elected captain and which was assigned to the regiment of Col. Ellison Capers, with which he was on duty until physical disability compelled his resignation in 1862. Daniel H. Tompkins was educated at Edgefield and in the famous schools of James L. Leslie at Clear Springs and of John L. Kennedy at Williamston until he abandoned his studies in December, 1863, to enlist in the Confederate service. Becoming a private in the Hampton legion he was identified with the record of that gallant command in Virginia during 1864, serving in all the engagements north of the James river, in defense of Richmond, and in 1865 participating in the numerous skirmishes which attended the retreat to Appomattox. Returning home after the close of hostilities