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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) 4 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)
arker, formerly of the staff of Lieut.--Gen. Wade Hampton, was born at Charleston, August 24, 1832. His father was Samuel Gaillard Barker, a prominent attorney, merchant and planter, who was the son of a native of Rhode Island. His grandmother Gaillard, was a descendant of Pierre Gaillard, a Huguenot who fled from France in 1685, after the revocation of the edict of Nantes, and settled in South Carolina. He was graduated at the South Carolina college in 1849, and subsequently, until he attainPierre Gaillard, a Huguenot who fled from France in 1685, after the revocation of the edict of Nantes, and settled in South Carolina. He was graduated at the South Carolina college in 1849, and subsequently, until he attained the years necessary for admission to the bar, read law in the office of Judge Robert Munro. He was engaged in the practice of his profession at Charleston from 1853 until December, 1860, when upon the secession of the State he entered the military service as adjutant of the First regiment, South Carolina rifles, commanded by Col. J. J. Pettigrew. In this capacity he served at Castle Pinckney, at Secessionville, on Morris and Sullivan islands, until the fall of Sumter. In May, upon the or