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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[472] in the following engagements: Fall of Fort Sumter, Morris Island, Secessionville, Malvern Hill, Catlett's Station, and Second Manassas, in which battle he was wounded. He was then assigned to the quartermaster's department and stationed at Manning, S. C., where he remained during the rest of the war. In the winter of 1864-65 he entered the field again at the head of a company of sixteen-year-old boys and with them fought in the battle of Honey Hill, S. C. After the war he was elected sheriff of Clarendon county and served until 1869, when the reconstruction forced him out. In 1886 he was elected auditor of Clarendon county, which position he held for five years, and in May, 1891, he was appointed sheriff, elected for a full term in 1893 and re-elected in 1897. He has been twice married, first, in 1860, to Miss Sarah Frances Hodge, of Clarendon county. She died in May, 1896, leaving four children, and in 1897 he was married to Miss Sallie Holliday, of Sumter county. They have one daughter. Captain Bradham is a member of Harry Benbow camp, U. C. V., at Manning. He was a delegate from the State at large to the Democratic national convention at Chicago in July, 1896, was also elected without opposition to represent his county in the State constitutional convention of 1895, and was a member of the suffrage committee that formed the present election laws of the State.

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Lieutenant David Franklin Bradley

Lieutenant David Franklin Bradley, of Easley, S. C., was born in Pickens county, September 5, 1842. His father was Maj. Joel Bradley, of the old State militia before the war, and his mother was Ellen Scolds, a native of North Carolina. He was the youngest of seven brothers, all of whom served in the Confederate army: Warren D., a private in the Twenty-second South Carolina regiment, was wounded, returned home and died; William A., a private in a Georgia regiment, was captured and imprisoned at Rock Island, Ill., until the close of the war, when he settled in Cartersville, Ga., where he now resides; John B. served as a private in Gen. Joe Wheeler's cavalry throughout the war and now resides in Jefferson county, Ala; Ambrose J. was a sergeant in Company D, Hampton's legion, and lives now in Pickens county, S. C.; Robert N. was a private in the same company with Ambrose, and, losing his right arm at the battle of