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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) 3 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)
. Subsequently he was confined in the Old Capitol prison and at Fort Delaware until July, 1865. Since the war he has been engaged in business as a hardware merchant at Charleston, and is president of the Enterprise bank of that city. Captain John Westfield, born in Greenville county in 1827, died in 873, rendered gallant and efficient service as an officer of the Second South Carolina cavalry. He began his military career early in 861 as first lieutenant of Company F, Second cavalry, and in February, 1862, was promoted to captain, the rank in which he served during the remainder of the war. Previous to the war Captain Westfield, then comfortably settled as a planter, was married to Emma Stokes, who survived until 1882. They had a family of seven children, of whom but two are now living, Mary, wife of M. A. Morgan, of Greenville, and John O. Westfield. The latter was born July 29, 1869, at Greenville, was educated at the Furman university and the university of the South at Sewa