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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) 1 1 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)
it he was employed between the ages of twelve and twenty-one, and then he became a farmer. On April 14, 1861, he became second sergeant in Company H, Fourth South Carolina regiment, went with this command to Virginia in June, 1861, and participated in the battles of First Manassas, Williamsburg, Seven Pines, Gaines' Mill, Frayser's Farm, and Malvern Hill. Upon the reorganization in 1862 he was elected second lieutenant of Company B, Thirty-seventh Virginia cavalry, commanded by Lieut.-Col. Ambrose C. Dunn. He served with this command until the close of the war, and was in command of his company from the fall of 1863 to the end, taking part in the cavalry fights at Knoxville, Bean's Station, Winchester, Old Town, Strasburg, Liberty Mills and Gordonsville, besides scores of skirmishes. He was once slightly wounded and had two horses killed under him and one wounded. He had one very narrow escape from capture, at Liberty Mills, Va., in January, 1864. It was after nightfall and the