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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)
member of the firm of Muir, Ravenel & Co., exporters of cotton. His health failing, he traveled two years in Europe with his wife, after which, upon returning to this country, he located in upper South Carolina, near Pendleton, in 1855. When the war broke out he went twice to Charleston and enlisted in the Confederate service, remaining four months during one enlistment; but, owing to poor health, he was not permitted to serve throughout the whole war. Returning to his home in Pickens (now Oconee) county, he succumbed to a shattered constitution on December 15, 1863. He and his wife, Selina Eliza Porcher, had a family of seven children, one of whom is Henry Edmund Ravenel, a lawyer, of Spartanburg. The latter was born at Seneca plantation, Oconee county (then Pickens district), where his mother still resides, September 3, 1856. He graduated at Charleston college in 1876, then studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1879, and at once began the practice of his profession in Char