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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) 3 1 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)
llery volunteers, more generally known as Hart's battery, has been of recent years a citizen of Yorkville, S. C., and prominent as an attorney. He was born in Union county, February 13, 1837, the youngest of eight children of John and Elizabeth (Greer) Hart. His grandparents were Josiah Hart, a native of Virginia who removed to South Carolina between 1740 and 1750, and engaged in planting, and Rev. Thomas Greer, a Baptist minister who was a native of Ireland. Major Hart was graduated at the Rev. Thomas Greer, a Baptist minister who was a native of Ireland. Major Hart was graduated at the South Carolina military college in 1857, and after teaching school one year he took up the study of law and was admitted to practice in 1860. When the hostile occupation of Fort Sumter occurred in December, 1860, Mr. Hart, being at the time in Charleston, was selected by Governor Pickens to make a secret examination of the harbor, and upon the recommendations of his report the governor ordered the occupation of Sullivan's island by the State troops. He was then commissioned a lieutenant of e