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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[462] who was wounded and captured at Vicksburg, and died in Texas in 1895; and David, of Captain Hawthorne's company of the Fourth regiment, who died in hospital at Richmond from a wound received in the Seven Days battles. Another soldier of the family was Colonel Blythe, commander of Blythe's regiment, Mississippi troops. After the close of the war Lieutenant Blythe read law, and was admitted to practice in 1869. In 1872 he was elected solicitor of the Eighth judicial circuit. He served in that office four years, and has held the position of United States marshal for South Carolina one term. In 1896 he was elected to the legislature. In October, 1865, he was married to Emily Edgeworth, daughter of Maj. Henry M. Earle, and sister of the late Capt. William E. Earle, of Washington, D. C. They have five children: Sophia R., David McClure, Edgeworth Montague, Lilian Mayfield and Evelyn Rebecca.

Henry Laurens Pinckney Bolger, a survivor of the Lafayette artillery who has the honor of holding the office of probate judge at Charleston, was born at that city December 29, 1846. As a boy he was thrilled with patriotic devotion to his gallant State, when she asserted her sovereign powers in the closing days of 1860, but during the war which followed he was not permitted to do a soldier's part until when nearly seventeen years old, in November, 1863, he enlisted as a private in the Lafayette artillery. He was identified with the subsequent record of his command, in defense of the State and the Confederacy, fighting gallantly at Bee's Creek, Coosawhatchie, Columbia, at Binnaker's bridge on the Edisto, and in the last important battle at Bentonville, N. C. After the surrender at Greensboro he walked and rode to Charleston, reaching the city with $1.25 in his pocket, and then found employment as a clerk for two or three years. Subsequently studying law in the office of Duryea, Durgen & Cohen, he was admitted to practice in 1878. In 1881-82 and 1889-90 he represented Charleston county in the South Carolina legislature. In 1890 he was appointed trial justice by Governor Richardson, an office which he held until the Tillman administration. In 1894 he was elected without opposition to the office of probate judge, and re-elected in 1898. He is active in politics and influential in municipal affairs. An older brother of