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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[877] life to embrace the profession of law he read in the office of Wilson & Witherspoon, Yorkville, and was admitted to the bar in 1869. He began his professional career at Anderson, where he was married to Florence Earle, but a year later removed to Louisville, Ky., and formed a partnership with Col. Bennett H. Young. In 1871 he abandoned this profession and entered the Columbia theological seminary, where he was graduatd in 1874. Thereupon he entered actively upon the work of the ministry, and in 1882 was called to the charge of the Fort Mill Presbyterian church. In 1891 the degree of doctor of divinity was bestowed upon him by both Davidson and the Presbyterian colleges of South Carolina. He is one of the organizers of Catawba camp, and is also prominent in fraternity circles. Dr. Thornwell's wife is still living and nine children bless their union.

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Major Edward North Thurston

Major Edward North Thurston, of Charleston, entered the service of the Confederate States in the fall of 1861, being then about thirty years of age, as volunteer aide on the staff of Gen. D. R. Jones, then commanding a brigade in the army of Northern Virginia. Early in 1862 he was assigned to duty as ordnance officer of General Jones' division, with the rank of captain of light artillery. He continued on duty in this capacity with that division until the death of General Jones in December, 1862, and then served in the same capacity with R. H. Anderson's and William Mahone's divisions, except a period, June to October, 1864, when he had the honor of being temporarily assigned, by order of Gen. R. E. Lee, as acting chief ordnance officer of the army of Northern Virginia, vice Colonel Baldwin, temporarily disabled by illness, an eloquent testimonial to his efficiency and soldierly record. In the fall of 1864 he was promoted to the rank of major, and assigned to duty with R. H. Anderson's corps, where he served until the end of the war. He was an active participant in the great battles of the army of Northern Virginia, including the Seven Days battles, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, the Wilderness, Spottsylvania Court House, Second Cold Harbor, the fighting about Petersburg, and the retreat to Appomattox. At Second Manassas he was slightly wounded four times in the space of ten minutes, but did not leave the field, and at Chantilly he was captured by the enemy.