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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)
practice at Charleston, as a partner of Col. Charles H. Simonton, and continued in this profession until his retirement in 1890; and after a retirement of two years he resumed practice in 1893. In 1874 he became interested in rice planting on Cooper river, and his interests there and on the Edisto gradually became quite extensive and profitable. During the lawless period of 1869 to 1876 he was prominent in efforts for the maintenance of order, being the first president of the Carolina Rifle cl Paris during the years 1854, 1855 and 1856. On his return to Charleston he did not enter the active practice of the profession which he had mastered, but devoted himself to the management of an extensive rice plantation which he owned on the Cooper river. In January, 1861, with enthusiastic devotion to his State, he enlisted as a private in the Charleston light dragoons, and he continued to serve with this troop of cavalry on duty in the State, as a private, until in March, 1864, it was assig