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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)
g struggle beginning in the Wilderness, and including the battles of Spottsylvania Court House, Cold Harbor, Petersburg, Deep Bottom, Fort Harrison and the Darbytown road, the siege of Petersburg and the Appomattox campaign, at the close of which he surrendered the Rifles, 304 officers and men, as strong a regiment as the army included. Colonel Bowen is a member of Hawthorn camp, U. C. V., of Easley, S. C., and served as its first commander. He was married October 15, 1857, to Martha Adlaiza Antoinette Oliver, daughter of Dr. James Oliver, of Anderson county, and they have two children, a son and a daughter. He has been prominent in civil as well as military life. In 1864 while at the front he was elected a member of the South Carolina legislature and while on leave of absence from the army served in that body. In 1865 he was again elected to the legislature and was a member of that body when it refused to ratify the Fourteenth and Fifteenth amendments to the United States consti