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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)
th which he was identified throughout the war. Wesley W. was also a member of the Johnson rifles, but was honorably discharged on account of failing health. He died in 1867. Charner S. Greer, of Company A, Eighteenth regiment, was promoted to lieutenant and later to captain, and was in all the campaigns of his regiment. At the explosion of the Crater on the Petersburg lines he was buried under six feet of earth, but dug himself out with his sword. He is now a farmer of Union county. Ben Frank Greer, as one of the minute men, was among the very first to leave Union county for the war, and subsequently served with the Fifteenth regiment in the Maryland campaign and until his death at Staunton, Va., October, 1862. Thomas J. Greer also went out with the minute men, and re-enlisting in the Eighteenth, was elected lieutenant, and later was promoted to captain. He was in all the engagements of his regiment, was blown up at the Crater, and at Burgess' Mill, a few days before the surrend