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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 2 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)
a pleasant home on Wolf creek, among the green clad hills bordering on the Blue Ridge mountains. He received his education chiefly at the high school of Prof. John L. Kennedy, a well known teacher of his day, who taught at Slabtown, Anderson county. Leaving this school in 1856 he entered the medical department of the universityHamilton) Mauldin. He spent his boyhood in Anderson county, in the village of Williamston, and received his early education at an academy there, taught by Rev. John L. Kennedy. He left school to enter the army at the age of fifteen, in May, 1863, and became a member of Company D, Hampton legion, South Carolina volunteers, being isability compelled his resignation in 1862. Daniel H. Tompkins was educated at Edgefield and in the famous schools of James L. Leslie at Clear Springs and of John L. Kennedy at Williamston until he abandoned his studies in December, 1863, to enlist in the Confederate service. Becoming a private in the Hampton legion he was identi