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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)
M., Ll.D., the president of Wofford college, Spartanburg, S. C., and one of the few survivors of the South Carolina secession convention, was born in Winnsboro, Fairfield county, S. C., May 4, 1825. He is a son of Dr. William Carlisle, a native of the north of Ireland, who was born in 1795, came to America in 1818 and located at Winnsboro, S. C. He was a physician by profession and practiced in South Carolina for thirty years, dying in 1866. He was twice married, his first wife being Mary Ann Buchanan, also a native of Ireland, who died in 1858, leaving six children, four sons and two daughters. Dr. James Carlisle was the second son, and he was reared partly at Winnsboro and partly in Camden, S. C. He graduated from South Carolina college in 1844, and at once adopted the vocation of a teacher, which he has followed all his life. For nine years he was teacher in a classical school in Columbia, and upon the establishment of Wofford college in 1854 he was elected professor of mathema