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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)
lion, which he did, and it became Company F of that battalion, being mustered into Confederate service in November, 1864. He commanded it to the end of the war, disbanding at Charlotte, N. C. Since the war he has resided in Newberry county, giving his attention to planting interests until the year 1898, when he was appointed by President McKinley postmaster of Newberry, which office he now holds. Captain Fair has been twice married, his first wife being Mary Williams Nance, daughter of Drayton Nance, and sister of Col. James D. Nance, who was killed at the battle of the Wilderness. She died September 25, 1885, and on December 24, 1891, he married Miss Octavia E. Garlington, daughter of Gen. Albert C. Garlington, of Newberry, S. C. He has four children living, three sons and one daughter. Major John S. Fairly, deceased, for many years a prominent figure in Charleston commercial life, came to South Carolina in his youth, and though not a native of the State, served her with devot