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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)
academy when the war began. Leaving school, he joined a Florida cavalry company, in which he served throughout the war as a lieutenant. He became a physician in Florida, and at Greenville, S. C., where he died in 1872. Of Judge Whitner's three sons-in-law, one, Thomas J. Glover, of Orangeburg, entered the war as lieutenant-colonel of the First South Carolina regiment, was soon promoted to colonel, and was killed in the battle of Second Manassas at the head of his regiment. Another, Elbert M. Rucker, of Elbert county, Ga., who married Sarah Frances Whitner, eldest daughter of Judge Whitner, served in the Georgia reserves during the war as a private, and now resides at Ruckersville, that State. The third son-in-law was Col. John L. Eubank, who married Mary Talula Whitner after the war. He was secretary of the convention that passed the ordinance of secession in Virginia, and served throughout the war in the quartermaster's department. Maj. B. F. Whitner has four living children, t