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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), Biographical (search)
f major-general. In this capacity, and waiving all questions of rank and precedence, at the request of Governor Pickens, he served upon the coast in hearty cooperation with General Beauregard, sent there by the provisional government of the Confederate States. At a later date he was commissioned brigadier-general in the provisional army, and he took to Richmond the first troops, not Virginian, that arrived for the defense of the capital. His regiments were commanded by Colonels Kershaw, Williams, Cash and Bacon, and were conspicuous in the operations before Washington and in the first battle of Manassas. Afterward, in consequence of a disagreement with the war department, he resigned and was elected to the Confederate Congress. In December, 1862, he was elected governor of the State, an office which he filled with credit. In January, 1865, he was appointed to command of a brigade of cavalry, in the organization of which he was engaged at the close of military operations. His su
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)
Laurens county, daughter of Col. J. Washington Watts and a descendant of Col. James Williams, one of the heroes of King's Mountain, who there gave his life for the cvery beginning of the war as a private in Capt. Homer McGowan's company, Col. James Williams' regiment, Bonham's brigade. After the battle of Williamsburg he becamergaret G. Williams, daughter of Washington Williams and granddaughter of Col. James Williams, of Revolutionary fame, who was killed in the battle of King's Mountain., was born in Newberry, S. C., October i o, 1837, the son of Drayton and Lucy (Williams) Nance. His great-grandfather, James Williams, was one of the heroes of King'James Williams, was one of the heroes of King's Mountain, and was killed in that Revolutionary battle. Colonel Nance received his preparatory education at Newberry, was graduated from the Citadel military academ of age, he entered the Confederate service and became a private in Company D, Williams' battalion, in which he served to the close of the war, when he surrendered at