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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)
d at the Citadel academy, afterward traveled in Texas and Mexico for two years. Returning home in 1860, he with three brothers organized a company of volunteers in the autumn of the same year, before South Carolina had seceded, with his brother John as captain, and Harvey and himself as lieutenants. This company was offered to the State in November, but was declined on account of the uncertainty of the times. Disbanding its officers and members they subsequently entered other commands. Harvey White raised a company for the Fifty-third regiment and became its captain, serving until killed at Spottsylvania while on the staff of General Daniels; John M. White became lieutenant-colonel of the Sixth South Carolina regiment, and was with Lee at Appomattox; Edward White was surgeon of the Seventh North Carolina regiment until his death from disease, in 1862; and James White served throughout the war as captain of Company B, First South Carolina cavalry. Samuel E. White in 1861 joined a com