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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)
reporting again for duty at Bentonville, N. C. Making his home in Colleton county after the war he practiced medicine eighteen months, and then engaged in civil engineering, his present profession. Colin Murchison Smith, a veteran of the South Carolina artillery service, was born in Marion district, in 1847. His youth prevented his enlistment in the first year of the war, but in April, 1862, being about fourteen years of age, he became a member of the McQueen battery commanded by Capt. M. B. Stanley, a veteran of the Mexican war. This organization was known as Company B of the South Carolina siege train until the latter part of 1863, when it was sent to Virginia under the command of Capt. Thomas E. Gregg and was generally known as Gregg's battery, Pegram's battalion. Mr. Smith served as a private from the time of his enlistment until the surrender at Appomattox, participating in numerous engagements on the coast and in Virginia. Much of his active service was between Charlesto