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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)
to an end. Six older brothers were also in the service. John W. Greer, a resident of Arkansas in 1861, enlisted in that State, was promoted to lieutenant, and at Fort Pillow lost an arm and was taken prisoner. He is still living. Robert H. enlisted in the Johnson rifles, of the Palmetto sharpshooter regiment, with 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 h