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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)
of the Twenty-third regiment, South Carolina volunteers. He was born on James island, November 14, 1825, the son of John Bohun Girardeau, a planter in the low country. His grandfather was Isaac Girardeau, of American birth, a descendant of Pierre Girardeau, of Poitou, France. He was graduated with first honor at the college of Charleston in 1844, finished a course at the Presbyterian theological seminary at Columbia in 1848, and then was a pastor of Presbyterian churches at Wappetaw and in Comy from the breastworks, fifty or more mortally wounded and dying United States soldiers were collected and placed in the excavation behind the magazine, and those who were permitted to observe it can never forget their emotions when they saw Dr. Girardeau in the midst of these late deadly enemies, upon his knees, offering up an earnest and eloquent prayer for their spiritual welfare. He was an ardent, if not bitter, advocate of Southern rights, but here his soul was aglow with Christ-like for