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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)
rt was to perform faithfully his duties as a Confederate officer. Among the engagements in which he participated were: Second Manassas, Boonsboro Gap, Sharpsburg, Brandy Station, Kelly's Ford, Gettysburg, the Wilderness, Spottsylvania, Hawe's Shop, Trevilian Station, Catlett's Station, Reams' Station, Yellow Tavern, Jack's Shop, and Nance's Shop, Cedar Run, New Creek, and on the Petersburg lines. He was with Rosser on his famous raid upon the Baltimore & Ohio railroad shops and stores at New Creek and Piedmont; also on Hampton's great raid around Grant's army to City Point, where several thousand head of cattle were captured and driven into the Confederate lines. At Hawe's Shop his sword was shot from his side by a piece of shell, his horse and himself being slightly wounded. Since the close of the war he has resided at Charleston, mainly engaged as a bank clerk until 1878, since when he has been in the engineer service of the United States government. Lieutenant Porter is a son o