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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), Chapter 5: (search)
h and Twenty-fifth volunteers, ten companies each. Brigadier-General Hagood, in charge of the Second military district, with headquarters at Adams' run, had in his command one regiment (the Sixteenth), Smith's and Nelson's battalions of infantry, two companies of cavalry, the Stono scouts, and two batteries (the Washington and Morrison artillery)—twenty-nine companies of all arms, all South Carolinians. Col. W. S. Walker, commanding the Third military district, with headquarters at McPhersonville, had under his orders an aggregate of forty companies of all arms, as follows: Eleventh volunteers, First and Second battalions of sharpshooters, Third regiment of cavalry, First, Second and Sixth battalions of cavalry, Rutledge mounted riflemen, Charleston dragoons, Kirk's partisan rangers, Elliott's Beaufort artillery, Kavanaugh's Lafayette battery, all South Carolina commands, and Nelson's Virginia battery. The whole Confederate force in South Carolina upon General Beauregard's assu
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)
carriagemaker's trade, was engaged in that business in New York city until 1859. In November of that year he removed to South Carolina and located in Clarendon county, where he followed his trade until the beginning of the war. In the spring of 1861 he enlisted as a private in Company H, Fifth South Carolina cavalry, and served as such about one year, when he was promoted to corporal. When his command went to Virginia in 1863 he was detailed to the ordnance department and stationed at McPhersonville and old Pocotaligo, S. C., and there he served until the spring of 1865, when he was taken prisoner at Columbia by Sherman's forces and carried to North Carolina, where he was paroled. After the close of hostilities he returned to Manning and resumed the carriage business, in which he continued until 1875, and then opened a general mercantile house at Manning, which he has since conducted. He was married in 1867 to Miss Susan A. Horton, of Clarendon county, and they have five sons: Joh