Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina
Clement Anselm Evans, Ed.

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[501] in Spartanburg. He was married in 1870, to Miss Charley A. Vandiver, daughter of Dr. John Vandiver, a physician, now of Talladega, Ala., and they have two children, a son and a daughter. He has served two terms as alderman, the office coming to him on each occasion without his solicitation.

David Cardwell, commander in 1898 of Hampton camp, United Confederate Veterans, at Columbia, is a native of Richmond, Va., born in 1846. He was reared and educated mainly at Washington, D. C. In July, 1862, at the age of sixteen years, he enlisted as a private in the First regiment, Virginia infantry reserves, and after six months service was for a month attached to Brown's reconnaissance corps. He then became a member of the famous Pelham horse artillery, attached to Stuart's cavalry, and continued on duty to the close of hostilities with that part of the battery commanded by Capt. William M. McGregor, and later by Capt. Wilmer Brown. He participated in the battles of Brandy Station, Culpeper Court House (two fights), Hanover Court House (where his horse was killed under him), the Wilderness, Spottsylvania, Chancellorsville, Second Cold Harbor, and the running fight from Stony Creek to Dinwiddie Court House. He served at Petersburg and vicinity from June, 1864, to the evacuation, including the battle of Five Forks, and then took part in the battle of Sailor's Creek, and reaching Appomattox, made his way to Lynchburg. Afterward he attempted but failed to reach Colonel Mosby, and after remaining a month at Culpeper Court House, was paroled at Ashland, Va., and returned to Richmond. In 1869 he made his home at Columbia, S. C., and began a career in the railway service in which he has been quite successful. Beginning as clerk to the superintendent of the Columbia & Augusta railroad, he subsequently became assistant general freight and passenger agent of the Richmond & Danville railroad, and after the formation of the Southern railroad system was appointed to his present position of division freight agent. He has served two years as alderman of Columbia, where he is an influential and respected citizen. He served on the staff of Gov. John P. Richardson, of South Carolina as lieutenant-colonel and aide-de-camp.