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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)
n Beaufort district, now Hampton county, June 26, 1845, where he was reared and educated. He entered the Confederate service in the summer of 1862, in Company B, Kirk's squadron of cavalry, which was assigned later to the Tenth South Carolina regiment. He was made orderly-sergeant of Company B, serving as such until the close, and taking part in the battle of Honey Hill, S. C., and in the engagements at Raleigh, N. C., and Florence, S. C. After the war closed he joined his father near Lincolnton, Ga., and in the fall of 1865 returned to Beaufort district, where he engaged in farming until 1867. At this time he entered Wofford college at Spartanburg, from which he graduated in 1869 with the degree of A. M. He then taught school for a year in Blackville, studying law in the meantime, and in the fall of 1870 he abandoned the practice of law for a position as bookkeeper in the great dry goods firm of C. & E. L. Kerrison, of Charleston. In 1871 he entered the Baptist theological semin