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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) 1 1 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)
war. This he continued with great success until his retirement in 1895. From 1887 to 1889 he held the rank of captain of the German artillery. For eighteen years he was one of the alms house commissioners, serving successively as secretary and treasurer, vice chairman and chairman of the board. He is a director of the Germania savings bank, has held the same position with the People's National bank, and was secretary for thirty years of the Carolina Mutual Fire Insurance company. Major Ceth Smith land Major Ceth Smith Land was born in Edgecombe county, N. C., December 9, 1833, and came to South Carolina April 1, 1855. On January 3, 1861, as a private he was mustered into the service of the State in the company of Capt. John G. Pressley, Gregg's First regiment of volunteers, and was at the siege and capture of Fort Sumter, the 12th to 14th of April, 1861. On December 13, 1861, he became first lieutenant of Captain Byrd's company of Williamsburg volunteers, which formed a par