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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)
was promoted to lieutenant-colonel of his regiment, and he commanded it from then until the close of the war. He was a gallant soldier and faithful to his duties. At the lose of the war he returned to planting and followed that occupation until 1875, when he was admitted to the bar at Greenville. He entered the profession late, and therefore never devoted his time exclusively to its practice. Colonel Croft was twice married; his first wife was Mary E., eldest daughter of the late Judge B. M. Pearson, of Florida, by whom he had five children, and his second wife was Mrs. S. A. Cox, of Greenville. Colonel Croft died in May, 1892. He and his family were devoted to the cause of the South. His brother, Lieut. Randell Croft, of the First regiment of Confederate artillery, died while in the service at Fort Sumter in 1862. He bore a conspicuous part in the firing upon the Star of the West, was there serving in the battalion of South Carolina cadets, and had the distinction of firing