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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)
without a father's aid. The boy grew up on the farm and at the age of twenty-one undertook the conduct of the business for his mother. He was her dependence until the war came on and South Carolina's need of defenders led him to the field. In January, 1862, before the passage of the conscript act, he enlisted in Company D, Twentieth South Carolina regiment, commanded by Col. L. M. Keitt. He served with this regiment as a non-commissioned officer for eighteen months, when he joined Capt. E. S. Keitt's company of mounted infantry, Nineteenth South Carolina battalion. With this he served as a lieutenant until the close of the war. His services were on the South Carolina coast until the evacuation of Charleston in February, 1865, when he retreated with the army of General Johnston into North Carolina. In that State his battalion was disbanded, whereupon he returned home without surrendering. He at once went to work at farming, and by industry and good management he has become one