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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) 2 2 Browse Search
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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)
a stockholder in the large cooperative store of J. K. Durst & Co., and a trustee of the Connie Maxwell orphanage. He was married, March 12, 1882, to Miss Nannie M. Clark. They have four living children, two sons and two daughters. Major Joseph Manning Adams Major Joseph Manning Adams, born in Charleston, S. C., December 17, 1836, was the son of the Rev. Jasper Adams, an Episcopal clergyman and once president of Charleston college. Major Adams entered the cadet military academy at the agMajor Joseph Manning Adams, born in Charleston, S. C., December 17, 1836, was the son of the Rev. Jasper Adams, an Episcopal clergyman and once president of Charleston college. Major Adams entered the cadet military academy at the age of fourteen and graduated from it at twenty. He then became principal of the Anderson (S. C.) military academy and was thus engaged when the war began. He became quartermaster of the Fourth South Carolina regiment, commanded by Col. J. B. E. Sloan, the first regiment organized in the up-country. On reaching Virginia he was made quartermaster of Jenkins' brigade with the rank of major. Having a military education, and seeing no chance for promotion in the line while serving as quartermaster