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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)
valry, with which he served, mainly in the Carolinas, until surrendered under the capitulation of General Johnston. After the close of hostilities he farmed for a year, and then resumed his studies and was graduated at the South Carolina college in 1868. Deciding at this period of his life to embrace the profession of law he read in the office of Wilson & Witherspoon, Yorkville, and was admitted to the bar in 1869. He began his professional career at Anderson, where he was married to Florence Earle, but a year later removed to Louisville, Ky., and formed a partnership with Col. Bennett H. Young. In 1871 he abandoned this profession and entered the Columbia theological seminary, where he was graduatd in 1874. Thereupon he entered actively upon the work of the ministry, and in 1882 was called to the charge of the Fort Mill Presbyterian church. In 1891 the degree of doctor of divinity was bestowed upon him by both Davidson and the Presbyterian colleges of South Carolina. He is one