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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)
a, and in command of it, in Hagood's brigade, was on duty in Virginia until August, when he was again detached and put in command of Fort Caswell and Oak island, Cape Fear river. Here he sustained the attack of the Federal fleet, and, after destroying the works, evacuated the fort. His regiment being captured at Fort Fisher, he reported to General Hagood, and in the fight at Town Creek, near Wilmington, while in command of three regiments of his brigade, was captured by the division of Gen. J. D. Cox, of Ohio. Subsequently he was confined at the Old Capitol prison and Fort Delaware until August 6, 1865. Colonel Simonton demonstrated his soldierly qualities in several engagements with the enemy in addition to those already named, notably in the fight at Legare‘s Point, on James island, at Secessionville, in the attacks upon his lines on James island, and at the battle of Cold Harbor, Va., 1864. On his return to Charleston he resumed his profession, and was elected to the constitutio