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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)
his devotion to the cause of independence, Colonel Hay and his father suffered the loss of large landed and sugar interests in Jamaica, confiscated by the British government. This loss, together with the donations he had made to the colonial government, rendered him poor at the close of the war. The grandfather of Dr. Hay came to South Carolina during the early part of the present century, and settled first in Beaufort county and afterward in Barnwell county, where his father, Dr. Lewis Scott Hay, was born. The latter received his education at Buford Bridge, at Augusta, Ga., and the Boiling Springs academy, in Barnwell county. While attending school at the latter place he ran away for the purpose of entering the Confederate service, but, as he was only fifteen years of age, was not accepted. In the fall of 1864 he enlisted as a private in the Second regiment of South Carolina State troops, serving with them until Sherman's raid, at which time he returned home on a furlough and w