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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), Biographical (search)
whose wife was a daughter of Gen. Thomas Pinckney. His father, who was aide-de-camp to General Wilkinson in 1800, and adjutant-general in the war of 1812, suffered imprisonment in Austria for assisting in the liberation of Lafayette from the fortress of Olmutz; his grandfather, Benjamin Huger, was a famous revolutionary patriot, killed before Charleston during the British occupation; and his great-great-grandfather was Daniel Huger, who fled from France before the revocation of the edict of Nantes and died in South Carolina in 1711. General Huger was graduated at West Point in 1825, with a lieutenancy in the Third artillery. He served on topographical duty until 1828, then visited Europe on leave of absence; after being on ordnance duty a year was promoted captain of ordnance in 1832, a department of the service in which he had a distinguished career. He was in command of Fortress Monroe arsenal twelve years, was member of the ordnance board seven years, and one year was on official
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)
Jenkins, United Confederate Veterans, at Bamberg, and is also a member of the Masonic fraternity. Major Theodore Gaillard Barker, formerly of the staff of Lieut.--Gen. Wade Hampton, was born at Charleston, August 24, 1832. His father was Samuel Gaillard Barker, a prominent attorney, merchant and planter, who was the son of a native of Rhode Island. His grandmother Gaillard, was a descendant of Pierre Gaillard, a Huguenot who fled from France in 1685, after the revocation of the edict of Nantes, and settled in South Carolina. He was graduated at the South Carolina college in 1849, and subsequently, until he attained the years necessary for admission to the bar, read law in the office of Judge Robert Munro. He was engaged in the practice of his profession at Charleston from 1853 until December, 1860, when upon the secession of the State he entered the military service as adjutant of the First regiment, South Carolina rifles, commanded by Col. J. J. Pettigrew. In this capacity he