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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)
which was the duty to which so many Confederate soldiers first turned their attention, he engaged in teaching school; afterward studied at Homer's school, Oxford, N. C., at a similar institution at Louisburg, and at Trinity college, Hartford, Conn., but was prevented from remaining long at college, by the effect of his wound upon his eyesight. He entered upon study in preparation for the ministry in 1870, maintaining himself meanwhile by teaching school, and in 1873 was ordained deacon at Morganton, by Bishop Atkinson, and priest in 1877. Having been engaged in teaching school at Hickory he remained there in charge of the church of the Ascension, and of Trinity church at Statesville, until 1879, when he was assigned to St. Bartholomew's church, Pittsboro. In 1881 the church at Chapel Hill was added to his charge. In 1884 he removed to South Carolina and became rector of the churches at Rock Hill and Yorkville, and in 1889, making his home at Columbia, he was put in charge, by Bish