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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)
e in 1877, was a son of Samuel Cothran, also a native of South Carolina. His mother, Elizabeth, was the daughter of James Sproull and his wife Rebecca Caldwell, the latter of whom was a cousin of John C. Calhoun, whose grandfather, and her's, was William Caldwell, one of three brothers who emigrated from the north of Ireland, first settled in Pennsylvania, and later in the Piedmont region of South Carolina. Elizabeth Cothran's father was a soldier of the Revolution; also her uncle, Capt. John Caldwell, who with his wife was murdered by the notorious outlaw, Bill Cunningham. Captain Cothran was graduated at the Georgia university in 1852, and then returning to Abbeville, he read law with Thomas C. Perrin, a distinguished lawyer, State senator and president of the Greenville & Columbia railroad. He was admitted to the bar in 1853, and in 1855 he was married to Emma C., the daughter of Mr. Perrin. In July, 1861, he entered the Confederate service as orderly-sergeant of Company B, C