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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[631] city. In 1867 he returned to the Virginia military institute as full professor of chemistry, which position he held until 1890, and in October of that year he was appointed professor of chemistry in Clemson college, S. C., which position he still holds. He is also chief chemist of the South Carolina agricultural experiment station, located at the college. In 1866 he was elected a member of the lyceum of natural history of New York, which is now the New York academy of sciences, and became a corresponding member of the same society in July, 1867, after returning to Virginia. He was elected a member of the American chemical society upon its organization in 1876, and has continued a member ever since. He was married, August 26, 1869, to Miss Mary M. Payne, of Warrenton, Va., and they have eight living children, four boys and four girls.

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William D. Hardy

William D. Hardy was born in Newberry county, S. C., April 20, 1841. His parents were William E. and Catherine W. Hardy, and he was reared in Newberry county on a farm, receiving his education in the common schools and at an academy taught by Col. Stephen Lee, uncle of Gen. Stephen D. Lee, near Asheville, N. C. On April 13, 1861, he entered the Confederate service as a private in Company K, Fifth South Carolina infantry, his company being known by the name of the Spartan Rifles. He served with this company for twelve months, taking an active part in the first battle of Manassas, and in the spring of 1862, upon the reorganization of the regiment, he was appointed sergeant-major. In the summer of the same year he was made adjutant of the regiment, and served as such until the close of the war, at the surrender at Appomattox being a member of Bratton's brigade, Field's division, Longstreet's corps. Since the war his attention has been given to farming. He has represented his county in the State legislature for ten years, and is now master in equity for Newberry county. He was married, December 16, 1869, to Miss Frances B. Sims, who died February 3, 1896, leaving eight children, six sons and two daughters.

W. H. S. Harris, commander of C. W. Boyd camp, U. C. V., at Jonesville, was born in Union county, in 1839, youngest child of S. P. and Sophia Harris, also