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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)
ities of the officer, those of his gallant command who survive will testify. That he was possessed of the truest courage the circumstances of his death abundantly prove. Had he been permitted to consummate the life that was opening up before him, he must, with abilities that fitted him for the field and the forum, have taken a position in his State among the most honored of her sons. His two brothers, Creswell and Stobo, of Laurens, and two sisters, Mrs. John L. Young, of Union, and Mrs. R. W. Simpson, of Pendleton, S. C., are left to mourn his loss. Of the four brothers, who at once and together answered their country's call, only the two above named remain. John, the youngest, after passing safely through the first battle of Manassas, those around Richmond and those of the Maryland campaign, fell at Fredericksburg, December 13, 1862—fell, no less beloved, no less regretted than his older and more distinguished brother, under whom he enlisted. The two brothers lie buried side b