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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)
he past fifteen years Mr. Wilson has been editor and proprietor of this paper, and is also a director of the Abbeville cotton mills. True to the memory of the lost cause, he is a member of Secession camp, U. C. V. Lieutenant John Caldwell Wilson, born in Newberry county, S. C., June 27, 1834, is the son of John and Jane (Caldwell) Wilson, both natives of Newberry county. Both parents of Mr. Wilson died when he was but fourteen years of age, and he — then went to live with his uncle, James Caldwell, on whose farm in Newberry county he remained two years and then entered an academy in Newberry county, where he spent two years, after which he entered the junior class of Erskine college at the age of eighteen and graduated at twenty. He was engaged in teaching when the war cloud first began to gather on the horizon, and upon the first call for volunteers he enlisted in Company C, Third South Carolina regiment, as a private, and served with this same command throughout the war, leavin