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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)
then became principal of the Anderson (S. C.) military academy and was thus engaged when the war began. He became quartermaster of the Fourth South Carolina regiment, commanded by Col. J. B. E. Sloan, the first regiment organized in the up-country. On reaching Virginia he was made quartermaster of Jenkins' brigade with the rank of major. Having a military education, and seeing no chance for promotion in the line while serving as quartermaster, he resigned, returned home and joined Capt. Whit Kilpatrick's company as a lieutenant. While with it, in the battle of Chickamauga, he was wounded and captured and taken to Nashville, and finally to Johnson's island, where he was imprisoned for eighteen months, or until the close of the war. He read law while in prison, was admitted to the bar shortly after his release, and entered upon the practice of law at old Pickens Court House. He was married, December 18, 1866, to Eugenia Postelle Earle, daughter of John Baylis Earle, a prominent cit