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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)
prime features of his life, made him successful as a boy among strangers. Returning to Charleston several years later, he became engineer of a steamer running to Havana, and was occupied as a stationary engineer in Cuba two years. Subsequently he was for several years a locomotive engineer with the South Carolina & Georgia railro and remained at that station on the James river until early in 1864, when he was ordered abroad for duty on the vessels building in Europe. He sailed to Nassau, Havana, Southampton and London, and thence crossed to Paris, but found that the international complications were likely to prevent active service. He was assigned to t progress toward Wilmington having been obstructed by another severe storm. On reaching Nassau they were informed of the termination of the war, and putting into Havana, the vessel was sold and the crew dismissed. Master Wilkinson went to Mexico then, and for some time served under Colonel Talcott, of Virginia, as civil engineer