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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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James Parton, The life of Horace Greeley, Chapter 1: the Scotch-Irish of New Hampshire. (search)
for three years. All the records and traditions of the revolutionary period breathe unity and determination. Stark, the hero of Bennington, was a Londonderrian. Such were the Scotch-Irish of New Hampshire; of such material were the maternal ancestors of Horace Greeley composed; and from his maternal ancestors he derived much that distinguishes him from men in general. In the New Yorker for August 28, 1841, he alluded to his Scotch-Irish origin in a characteristic way. Noticing Charlotte Elizabeth's Siege of Derry, he wrote: We do not like this work, and we choose to say so frankly. What is the use of reviving and aggravating these old stories (alas how true!) of scenes in which Christians of diverse creeds have tortured and butchered each other for the glory of God? We had ancestors in that same Siege of Derry,—on the Protestant side, of course,—and our sympathies are all on that side; but we cannot forget that intolerance and persecution—especially in Ireland—are by no
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 works. In 1895 he re-entered the insurance business and two years later he again made his home in Charleston, where he now resides. In 1876 he was a member of the State convention which started what was then called the straight-out movement, that resulted in the nomination and election of his old general, Wade Hampton, as governor. By his marriage in 1867 to his wife, Annie S., daughter of Robert James Griffith, he has six children: Moseley F., Louis, Robert Augustus, William F., Charlotte Elizabeth, and Annie Louise. William T. Shumate William T. Shumate, of Greenville, a veteran of the Butler Guards in the war of the Confederacy, was born in Greenville county, November 28, 1827. His father, Lewis Hampton Shumate, son of Strother D. Shumate, held the rank of colonel of militia before the great war and was an ardent supporter of John C. Calhoun, in 1832 raising a company to defend the action of the State. His mother was Mary, daughter of Robert Bolling, of Virginian desc