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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)
t Chester and at Charleston. He became a member of the Calhoun Guards, at Chester in 1859, and was orderly-sergeant of the company when it entered the active service in 1861. With the Sixth regiment he reached Manassas Junction, Va., just as the Federal army was routed, and later took part in the bloody affair at Dranesville, where the regiment lost 50 killed and wounded out of 360 engaged. At the reorganization he became second lieutenant of Company F, Sixth regiment. At Seven Pines Captain Gaston was killed, and Captain Moore fell early in the Seven Days campaign, so that Lieutenant Crawford was called to the command of his company at Gaines' Mill, and was promoted captain. He was badly wounded in the leg at Second Manassas, and was disabled in consequence for four months, and this was followed by other injuries which compelled his resignation in 1863. Since then he has been engaged in farming, with his home at Smith's Turnout. He was married, in 1849, to Amanda Wherry, who di