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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)
detachment of Kilpatrick's Federal cavalry, who had broken through the skirmish lines; but they repulsed the cavalry and saved the Confederate wagon trains, for which they received the thanks of General Lee. Anton William Jager, for many years a prosperous merchant of Charleston, is remembered by his comrades as a faithful soldier of the Confederacy, who carried the colors of Bachman's battery through the storm of battle, from the beginning to the end of the war. He was born in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, in 1840, to parents of German birth who were naturalized American citizens and were traveling in Germany at that time. From 1849 he was reared at Charleston, and educated, finding employment in youth as a clerk in a dry goods establishment. In the winter of 1860 he entered the military service of the State as a private in the Palmetto Rifles, with which he was on duty during the siege of Fort Sumter. Subsequently he enlisted in the German volunteers, later known as Bachman's b