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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) 3 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)
lent business management. He was married in 1871 to Miss Leonora J. Henry, the daughter of Harrison Henry, a gallant Confederate soldier who died during the war, and they have one son, Thomas M. Captain George Washington shell Captain George Washington Shell was born in Laurens county, S. C., November 13, 1831, the son of Capt. Roland Shell, a captain in the old State militia, a member of the South Carolina legislature and a prominent farmer of Laurens county. He died in 1875, and his wife, the mother of G. W. Shell, died in 1851. Captain Shell was reared in Laurens county, and in April, 1861, entered the Confederate service as a member of the Laurens Guards, which afterward became Company A, Third South Carolina volunteers, Bonham's brigade (later Kershaw's), McLaws' division, Longstreet's corps, army of Northern Virginia. He served as a private with this command for one year, participating in the battles of First Manassas and Williamsburg. Upon the reorganization in 1862