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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)
and elegant home, where the Cunninghams lived in true baronial style. Abner H. Cureton, a prominent citizen of Greenville, for sixteen years past manager of the Greenville mill of the South Carolina cotton oil company, was one of the youngest members of the Butler Guards during the war of the Confederacy, and endured unusual suffering from sickness and imprisonment during his military career. He was born in Greenville county, August 6, 1845, the son of Abner H. Cureton and his wife, Matilda Nelson, and was educated at the academy of Dr. Pierce up to the time of his enlistment. He went out with the Butler Guards in April, 1861, and joining the Second regiment in Virginia, fought at First Manassas and Williamsburg, after which he was taken with typhoid fever, which kept him out of the succeeding battles. Subsequently he fell a victim to the small-pox and in consequence was disabled for a considerable time. Upon his recovery, however, he went with Longstreet's corps to Georgia, an