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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) 5 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)
by the notorious outlaw, Bill Cunningham. Captain Cothran was graduated at the Georgia university in 1852, and then returning to Abbeville, he read law with Thomas C. Perrin, a distinguished lawyer, State senator and president of the Greenville & Columbia railroad. He was admitted to the bar in 1853, and in 1855 he was married to Emma C., the daughter of Mr. Perrin. In July, 1861, he entered the Confederate service as orderly-sergeant of Company B, Capt. James M. Perrin, of Orr's regiment of Rifles. Captain Perrin was subsequently promoted colonel of the regiment, and commanded it till he was killed at Chancellorsville, and Sergant Cothran became captaa wound in the face. Finally he was surrendered at Appomattox, after which he resumed his law practice at Abbeville, as the partner of his former preceptor, Hon. T. C. Perrin. He effectively supported the candidacy of General Hampton in 1876, as county Democratic chairman, and was elected solicitor of the Eighth judicial circuit,