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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[870] disbandment by its members joining the Confederate armies proper as soon as age permitted them to volunteer. When seventeen years of age he promptly obeyed the call of his country and joined Company B, Hampton legion, South Carolina volunteers, Gary's cavalry brigade, army of Northern Virginia, and served the Confederacy gallantly until he surrendered at Appomattox. During the last few months of the war his health broke down from improper food, but he refused to go to a hospital and did his duty to the end. He was an invalid for many months after reaching home. He prides himself that during his time of service he never missed an engagement with the enemy when with his command, but was never wounded or captured. He is the author of an historical sketch of the Hampton legion, a regiment from which arose seven general officers, most prominent of whom were Wade Hampton, S. D. Lee and M. C. Butler. As soon after reconstruction times as the whites were allowed to bear arms, he joined the militia of the State, and from a lieutenant in the Palmetto Rifles, of Aiken, arose to the lieutenant-colonelcy of the First regiment of State troops. He commenced his military career under Governor Hampton and ended it under Governor Tillman, when the latter disbanded the militia of the State. At the inception of the organization of the United Confederate Veterans' association, he organized Camp Barnard E. Bee, No. 84, at Aiken, the first camp of continuous existence in the State. He was yearly elected its commander until the regimental feature was adopted by the South Carolina division, when he was unanimously elected colonel-commander of the Aiken county regiment of U. C. V. He represents his State on the two standing committees of the U. C. V. association, the Jefferson Davis monumental committee, and the board of trustees of the Confederate memorial association, and has been instrumental in raising considerable funds for the objects of both of these committees, and for other Confederate veterans' purposes. He married Miss Julia A. Parker, of Edgefield, and has three children, a son, Horace Parker, and two daughters, Elizabeth Catherine and Julia Ella. He is a member of the dental profession and has resided and practiced in his native place for many years. He has been honored by election to the presidency of the State dental association. For eight years