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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) 1 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)
business career as a clerk. In that capacity and as a traveling salesman he has been quite successful. In the military service of the State since the war he has been quite prominent, joining the Butler Guards as a private in 1876, and ten years receiving the honor of election as major of the Third regiment. He resigned this rank in 1887 to become captain of the Butler Guards. In 1891 he held for a short time, until his resignation, the rank of major of the Fifth regiment. Lieutenant Philip H. Hutchinson, a veteran of General Hampton's cavalry command, now one of the active and enterprising citizens of Summerville, was born in Colleton county in 1839. He was among the first of the chivalrous young men of the State who volunteered for her defense in December, 1860, enlisting as a private in the Rutledge mounted riflemen. He served with that command until March, 1861, when he became a member of the Washington light artillery volunteers, first commanded by Capt. Stephen D. Lee, a