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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)
lle, N. C. He was in thirty or forty cavalry skirmishes in Virginia, a considerable number on the South Carolina coast, and almost daily skirmishing in the two Carolinas from February 14 to April 13, 1865. At Lynch's creek, in March, 1865, he was slightly wounded, and his horse was shot under him. After the close of hostilities Colonel Davis returned to Charleston and again engaged in business. Since 1880 he has held the position of secretary and treasurer of the city water works. Francis W. Dawson, ordnance officer on the staffs of Generals Longstreet and Fitzhugh Lee, and after the war for many years prominent in journalism at Charleston, was a native of England. He was twenty-one years of age when the war of the Confederacy began in 1861, and feeling a sincere sympathy with the Southern people in their struggle for independence, determined to join in the war. An opportunity being offered, by the arrival of the Confederate cruiser Nashville at Southampton, he sailed with that