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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)
South Carolina. He was engaged as a merchant in Anderson county when the war began, and he entered the State service in June, 1861, as second lieutenant of Company D, Gist's rifles, Hampton legion, being mustered into the Confederate service June 12, 1861. Upon the reorganization in 1862 he was made quartermaster of the infantry of the Hampton legion, with rank of captain. In the early part of 1864 he was again promoted, to brigade quartermaster, with the rank of major, and assigned to the nd traces both his ancestral lines back to Revolutionary soldiers. He was reared upon his father's farm, and received an education which enabled him to engage in teaching school in early manhood. He enlisted in the Confederate service about June 12, 1861, as a private in Company E, Hampton legion, and served as such throughout the war. After faithful service with the army in Virginia, including the battles of First Manassas, West Point, Seven Pines, Cold Harbor, Gaines' Mill, Malvern Hill, S