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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) 1 1 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)
ere he remained eight years. In 1877 he resigned, returned to South Carolina and entered upon the practice of law at Greenville. In 1886 he was appointed assistant United States attorney for South Carolina by President Cleveland, a position which he held until January, 1890. In 1891 he was elected professor of English in Clemson college, which position he now holds. His first wife, Miss Frances E. Garden, of Sumter, S. C., died March 18, 1883, and on December 20, 1887, he married Miss Sallie Villepigue, of Camden, S. C. He has seven living children. Alester Garden Furman, of Greenville, S. C., was born in Sumter county, S. C., October 22, 1867, and is the son of Capt. Charles M. Furman, mentioned above. He was graduated in 1885, from the Furman university, and after studying law he was admitted to the bar December 21, 1888, and began practice in Greenville at once. Before he was twenty-one years of age he joined the Greenville Guards as a private. He was promoted to lieutenant