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Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Additional Sketches Illustrating the services of officers and Privates and patriotic citizens of South Carolina. (search)
When a child Mr. Izard was taken by his widowed mother to Columbia, and was there reared and educated. He entered the naval academy at Annapolis in 1850, and after two years study on shore spent two years on the sloop-of-war Portsmouth, and was detached at the Sandwich islands early in 1853 and assigned to the St. Lawrence, a 60-gun frigate, the flagship of the Pacific squadron, in which he cruised until 1855, when he returned to Annapolis for examination and promotion. He graduated in June, 1856, standing sixth in a class of twenty-five, among whom were the following: Rear Admirals W. G. Walker (retired), F. M. Ramsay (retired), W. A. Kirkland (deceased), R. W. Meade (deceased), W. A. Beardsley (retired), and C. C. Carpenter (retired). Upon his graduation as passed midshipman, he was assigned to the St. Lawrence and ordered to the Brazil station. In February, 1857, he was ordered to report to the United States steamer Hetzel for coast survey work on the North Carolina coast, Ches