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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)
here he remained until 1876, when he removed to Spartanburg, where he has since been engaged in the dry goods business. He now has one of the leading dry goods establishments of the place. He was married, in 1863, to Miss Mary Fleck, and they have six children. He is vice-president and director of the Spartanburg savings bank. Colonel Robert Esli Bowen Colonel Robert Esli Bowen, of Pickens county, S. C., was born on the farm where he now resides, September 8, 1830. His father was John Bowen, a native of Pickens county, a fanner and surveyor and a prominent man in his county. His mother's maiden name was Elvira Hunt. His parents were married in 1828 and Robert was the eldest of their eleven children, ten of whom are yet living. Of the six sons, five served in the war: Robert E., William Reese, John Hallam, Samuel Hunt and Thomas Jefferson. Of these, two were commissioned officers, Robert Esli being a colonel, and John Hallam a captain. William Reese served as bugler in B