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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[569] this incident have been published, but this alone is correct. After the close of the war he returned to Bamberg and took up the occupation of farming, which he has followed since. In 1893 he was appointed dispenser at Bamberg, which position he still holds. He was married August 23, 1866, to Miss Mary E. Cox, of Bamberg, and they have nine children: Bertha; Elizabeth, now Mrs. J. K. Quabnett, of Orangeburg county; Isaac, Jacob, Ellen, Sallie, Mabel, Charles, and Tillman. He is adjutant of Camp Jenkins, U. C. V., at Bamberg.

John F. Ficken, a prominent lawyer and an ex-mayor of the city of Charleston, S. C., is a native of that city, born in 1843. He was associated with the military record of the State in the Confederate war, first during the winter of 1861, as a private in the Sixteenth regiment of South Carolina militia, and subsequently in the Confederate army as a private in Company B of the German artillery. He served in the last named company for a while at Battery White, near Georgetown, S. C. He also did duty in Charleston harbor at Fort Johnson and on Sullivan's island. He was relieved of active service in the field in 1864 on account of ill health, and was detailed for clerical duty at the headquarters of Maj.-Gen. Samuel Jones commanding the department of South Carolina, Georgia and Florida, in which position he served continuously until the department was broken up near the close of the war. He was a student at the college of Charleston at the outbreak of the war and after a short suspension of study, caused by his enrollment in the Confederate service, he was permitted under a special detachment to return to college and graduate. After the war he studied law at Charleston and at the university of Berlin, Germany. He commenced the practice of law in 1870, and has continued to practice since then. He served several terms as a member of the legislature of South Carolina up to 1891, when he resigned to accept the office of mayor of Charleston, which position he held for a term of four years.

Lieutenant William Thomas Field, son of Joseph A. and Elizabeth E. (Blassingame) Field, was born in Pickens county, S. C., on the farm where he now resides, six miles northwest of Easley, December 11, 1836. Here he was reared in a pleasant home on Wolf creek, among