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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)
he Cherokee regiment, United Confederate Veterans, is a native of Laurens county, born in 1837. He is of South Carolinian descent, the paternal line extending, through Stephen and Benjamin Griffith, to his great-grandfather, Ezekiel, a native of Wales, who was a soldier of the Revolution, and his mother, Martha Woodruff, also being of an old South Carolina family. He was reared in Laurens and educated at Furman university. In August, 1861, he enlisted in Company E, Fourteenth South Carolina of Capt. Alexander Pack, and his wife, Elsie Nettles. His father, who was a farmer and merchant, and captain of cavalry in the State militia, died at thirty years of age. His grandfather, Joseph Pack, a native of Virginia, and son of a native of Wales, settled in Sumter county in early manhood. He was reared in Sumter county, and when the war broke out was a merchant at that place. In the fall of 1861 he closed his business and volunteered as a private in the company of Captain Frierson, whi