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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), Biographical (search)
piscopal church South, in 1845, and died at his home in Anderson, S. C., January 29, 1855. Ellison Capers, the fourth son of his marriage with Susan McGill, was graduated at the South Carolina military academy in November, 1857. The next year he was a resident graduate and assistant professor of mathematics and belles lettres in his alma mater. In 1859 he married Charlotte Rebecca, fourth daughter of John Gendron and Catherine Cotourier Palmer, of Cherry Grove plantation, St. John's, Berkeley, S. C. In the fall of this year he was appointed assistant professor of mathematics in the South Carolina military academy at Charleston with the rank of second lieutenant. The active state of affairs in Charleston during the summer and fall of 1860 roused the military spirit of the people, and the First regiment of Rifles was organized in Charleston, of which Lieutenant Capers was unanimously elected major. He served with this regiment at Castle Pinckney, and on Morris, Sullivan's, James a
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)
ponsor for the South Carolina division of the U. C. V. at their State reunion at Charleston in April, 1898, and also at the grand convention of the United Confederate Veterans at Atlanta in July, 1898. General James is a member of Camp Darlington, No. 785, U. C. V., at Darlington, and is in every way most highly esteemed by his comrades and the people of his State. Lieutenant Theodore Alexander Jeffords Lieutenant Theodore Alexander Jeffords was born in Charleston district, now Berkeley county, S. C., April 9, 1836. He was educated at Charleston and engaged in commercial life as clerk for Lanneau & Burckmyer, of Charleston, remaining with that firm about five years. In 1857 he commenced business in Charleston with his brother, under the firm name of Jeffords & Company, and was thus engaged when the war began. In April, 1861, he assisted in the organization of the South Carolina Rangers, an independent company organized in Charleston, and he entered the service with that compan