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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)
, Lexington, Ky., and was graduated in March, 1847. In the next month he died, leaving a young bride and a son subsequently born, the subject of this sketch. On the maternal side Dr. Anderson is descended from revolutionary ancestors. One of these, his great-grandfather, William Twitty by name, is remembered for his heroism in defending single-handed the log fort in which his mother and other women and children took refuge from a party of British and Tories. Dr. Anderson studied under a Mr. Leary, who had been the instructor of Gen. R. E. Lee, and in October, 1864, being nearly seventeen years old, enlisted in the Confederate service. He joined Company C, Thirty-fourth regiment, North Carolina troops, at Petersburg, Va., and was detailed at once as courier for Gen. C. M. Wilcox. He served with that commander in the battles about Petersburg and the Appomattox campaign until the surrender. After the latter event he returned home with his horse, which he had taken with him into th