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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)
ly 2, 1865. He taught school in the fall of 1865 and then commenced the practice of law at Orangeburg, S. C., which profession he has followed since. In 1868 he officiated as county chairman for Orangeburg county. In 1877 he was elected a member of the South Carolina house of representatives, but declined a re-election. He was a delegate to the Cincinnati convention of 1880 which nominated Hancock. In June, 1881, he was elected to Congress to fill a vacancy caused by the death of Hon. M. T. O'Connor, whose seat was contested by E. W. M. Mackey. In 1882 he was re-elected to Congress and held the position continuously until the close of the Fifty-first Congress in March, 1891, when he retired, having declined a renomination. He has held no official position since his retirement from Congress except in 1892, when he served as State chairman of the conservative wing of the Democratic party. He was married while on parole, on November 10, 1864, to Miss Mary C. Louis, daughter of a