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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)
when eight years of age accompanied his parents to Effingham county, Ga. He was there educated and prepared for college, but the advent of war diverted him from further study, and about December 1, 1860, he entered the Confederate service. He was at that time first lieutenant of a company organized in Effingham by Capt. P. H. Stanton, and desiring immediate active service, he resigned his commission before that company was mustered in, and enlisted as a private in a company organized in Bryan county, which became Company D of the Twenty-fifth Georgia regiment. This regiment was on coast duty at Fort Pulaski and Tybee islands, at Port Royal, at Charleston, and Sullivan's and James' islands, at Wilmington, N. C., on Masonboro sound, and protected the coast as far down as Brunswick, Ga. This subject became a corporal in 1861, was soon promoted to first sergeant and in 1863 was made second lieutenant. His regiment was part of the division led by Gen. W. H. T. Walker to Mississippi duri