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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)
ation of Captain Powe, the report appearing in the official records of the war. He was carried to Charleston, and after remaining there a few days, at the house of a friend, he was taken to his home in Cheraw. He was promoted captain and retired on full pay. As soon as he was able to do so he commenced farming and followed that business for twenty years. After 1885 he rented his lands and for a while was engaged in the weather bureau service. He was married on March 18, 1862, to Miss Josephine E. Robbins, the daughter of an eminent lawyer and distinguished citizen of Cheraw. They had seven children. Captain Powe had a literary turn of mind and devoted considerable time to preparing articles for the instruction of the young. He was also prominent in Sunday school work. He was for some time vice-commander of J. B. Kershaw camp, No. 413, U. C. V., at Cheraw, also a member of the Masonic fraternity. Captain Powe died suddenly at his home in Cheraw, on the morning of August 1, 1898