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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) 2 0 Browse Search
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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)
ks. Later he was ordered to Charleston, thence to Mississippi, where he was in the second battle of Jackson, was ordered back to Charleston, and from there to Asheville, and during the closing period of the war was in numerous fights in east Tennessee. After the close of hostilities he engaged for a time in farming and then embarked in business as a merchant at Union. During his leisure hours he has written a full history of the Macbeth light artillery. In May, 1865, he was married to Mary Thomson, of Spartanburg, and they have four children. The other five brothers who were in the Confederate service were: James Washington Scaife, who enlisted in Arkansas and was elected lieutenant-colonel of his regiment, served in that rank until after Shiloh, and then resigned and returning to Arkansas was very active as commander of a company for home protection; subsequently resided in Arkansas until his death in 1893. Thomas Jefferson Scaife, who also enlisted in Arkansas, in his brother's