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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)
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 surrender, lost a leg. After an influential career as a citizen of Union county, which he served as probate judge, he died in 1887. Judge Greer, after his return from the army, was engaged as a mercantile clerk for nine years. In 1874 he was married to Nannie W., daughter of James Byers, and began farming, which, with teaching school, was his occupation until 1894, when he was elected probate judge. He is a leader in politics and public affairs, and is a member of Camp Giles, U. C. V