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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)
t of 1864, was taken to the Old Capitol prison, thence to Fort Delaware and finally to Richmond. As he was a surgeon they had no right to hold him, and he was therefore given his freedom, and at the time of the surrender was at home on a furlough. Since the war he has resided in Prosperity, and has given his attention to the practice of medicine and farming. He was married, September 1, 1860, to Miss Elizabeth M. Cook, of Newberry county, and they have two daughters living. Colonel William Dunlap Simpson ranks among the many prominent representatives of South Carolina; but few, if any, have played a more conspicuous part in the history of the old Palmetto State than he—distinguished alike as soldier, lawyer, lawmaker, jurist, chief executive and judge. William D. Simpson was a representative descendant of one of the leading eminent families of upper South Carolina, his ancestors being the Scotch-Presbyterian Simpsons who left Scotland and settled in Ireland. The first of them t