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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)
in battle. In this capacity he participated in the battles of Williamsburg and Seven Pines, and in the latter battle received a wound which disabled him for some time. Two months later, when returning from furlough, he was commissioned by Governor Pickens lieutenant-colonel of the Fourth regiment, State troops, for coast defense. After three months of this service he joined General Gary's independent command and served with him twelve months as a staff officer. The end of the war found him dmirer of John C. Calhoun. Major Cunningham comes from distinguished stock on both sides. His paternal great-grandfather, Col. Patrick Cunningham, served on the British side in the war of the Revolution, while his maternal great-grandfather, Andrew Pickens, was a general in the colonial army. His mother was Floride Calhoun Noble, daughter of Ex-Governor Noble of South Carolina. Though born in Abbeville, Major Cunningham was reared chiefly in Charleston and was educated at Yorkville military a