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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)
ce. In 1898 he was serving his third term as commander of Sumter camp. Ulysses Robert Brooks, clerk of the supreme court of South Carolina, and a veteran of the Sixth South Carolina cavalry, is a descendant of a noted and patriotic Southern family. His great grandfather was Zachariah Smith Brooks, a lieutenant in the Revolutionary army under Gen. William Butler, who married a sister of this general after the close of the war, and had one son, Whitfield Brooks. The latter married Mary Parsons Carroll, and one of their sons was Preston S. Brooks, congressman previous to the Confederate era. James Carroll Brooks, father of Ulysses Robert, married a daughter of Col. U. M. Robert, of Mount Pleasant, Barnwell district, and during the great war commanded a company of South Carolina State troops. The subject of this sketch was born at Mount Pleasant, October 27, 1846, and was reared at the home of his parents in Edgefield district. On December 3, 1862, he was mustered into the Confeder