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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), Biographical (search)
ome sword by the legislature of South Carolina. In 1860 he was married to a sister of Gen. M. W. Gary, of Abbeville county. He resigned from the old army in February, 1861, being then stationed in Texas, and taking farewell of his colonel, Robert E. Lee, proceeded to Montgomery, and was commissioned major of cavalry, C. S. A. Beiment. From 1852 to 1856 he was a representative in the legislature, and in 1860 participated in the convention which enacted the ordinance of secession. In February, 1861, he was commissioned colonel of the Second South Carolina regiment, with which he served at Sullivan's island, and in April went to Virginia. He commanded hh Carolina delegation to the Democratic convention that met at Charleston. After the election of President Lincoln, he was a commissioner to Virginia, and in February, 1861, made an eloquent plea in favor of the withdrawal of that State from the Union. He entered the Confederate army, and served on the staff of General Beauregar
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)
until the beginning of the war was occupied as a teacher and surveyor. In February, 1861, six weeks before the attack on Fort Sumter, he joined Gwinn's engineer corune 13, 1845. His preparatory education was received at Georgetown, and in February, 1861, he went into the State service with the Georgetown Rifle Guards. This comseceded from the Union. Arkansas being slow to act he returned home and in February, 1861, enlisted in Company K, Eighth South Carolina. This regiment was called ind was thus engaged when his patriotic sense of duty called him to arms. In February, 1861, he was appointed by Governor Pickens lieutenant in the First regiment of Ss elected first lieutenant, and shortly afterward promoted to captain. In February, 1861, he was appointed surgeon of McGowan's brigade, South Carolina State troopsAsbury Coward, now superintendent of the Citadel academy at Charleston. In February, 1861, he volunteered in the Flat Rock Guards, a company raised in his neighborho