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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 0 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)
three weeks old. This son is now a cadet at Clemson college. Lieutenant Aldrich is by nature a leader of men and a brilliant writer. Under the nom de plume of Bourbon he did much to fight down the pernicious attempt at fusion with the Republicans in South Carolina in 1876. Since that time he has taken only a passing interest in the politics of the State. He is very fond of manly sports, and some of the finest specimens of horseflesh and gamecocks are to be found upon his plantation. Robert Aldrich, the second son of Judge A. P. Aldrich, was born at The Oaks, the residence of his parents near Barnwell, September 25, 1844. At the beginning of the war he was a cadet at the South Carolina military academy. Leaving there in the summer of 1862 he entered the Sixth regiment of South Carolina cavalry as a private. Shortly afterward he was promoted adjutant of the regiment, and in 1864 was detailed by General Hampton to command the dismounted men of the cavalry corps, which he organized