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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)
Izard was taken by his widowed mother to Columbia, and was there reared and educated. He entered the naval academy at Annapolis in 1850, and after two years study on shore spent two years on the sloop-of-war Portsmouth, and was detached at the San. Lawrence, a 60-gun frigate, the flagship of the Pacific squadron, in which he cruised until 1855, when he returned to Annapolis for examination and promotion. He graduated in June, 1856, standing sixth in a class of twenty-five, among whom were tr Philip Porcher was born in Charleston, S. C., September 16, 1835, of Huguenot stock. He entered the naval academy at Annapolis in 185, and after the ususal course graduated at the head of his class. He served in the United States navy until the ate States navy, was born at Charleston in 1844, and in 1859 was appointed to the United States naval academy. He left Annapolis in December, 1860, upon the secession of his State, and returning to Charleston at once entered the State service. He