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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) 4 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)
orn at Charleston about 1801, died in 1859, who was a cadet rifleman in the Seminole war; his grandfather was James McCall Ward, also a native of Charleston, a lawyer of prominence, and a major in the war of 1812; and his great-grandfather was Joshua Ward, who was born at Charleston and was a soldier of the Revolution. On the maternal side his great-grandfather was John Clement, who was badly wounded as a soldier under Francis Marion; and his great-great-grandfather was Robert Johnson, the last of the proprietary governors of the province of South Carolina. Mr. Ward entered the State service December 27, 1860, being then eighteen years of age, as a private in the First regiment, South Carolina Rifles, and with this company occupied Castle Pinckney, and took part in the siege of Fort Sumter. In February, 1862, he enlisted as a private in Company D, Fifth South Carolina cavalry, and was identified with the gallant record of that command until the close of hostilities. After service o