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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)
r of the Confederacy began in 1861, and feeling a sincere sympathy with the Southern people in their struggle for independence, determined to join in the war. An opportunity being offered, by the arrival of the Confederate cruiser Nashville at Southampton, he sailed with that vessel as a seaman, in February, 1862, reaching Beaufort late in the same month. He was at once commissioned a master's mate in the Confederate navy, and was ordered to report to Commodore Forrest at Richmond. Being assin the famous repulse of Ericsson's monitor by the Drewry's Bluff battery, 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 the old sloop-of-war Rappahannock, and remained in the harbor of Calais several months, the Fre