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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)
lburn Minus made a fine Confederate record in the West. He was in Missouri when the war began, to which place he had gone to practice law after his admission to the bar, and entered the service promptly in the spring of 1861, in the Missouri state guards, commanded by Maj.-Gen. Sterling Price. He was elected second lieutenant of Capt. (later Colonel) Frazier's company of cavalry, but was afterward assigned to duty in the quartermaster's department of Colonel Schnable's cavalry command, of McBride's division. He, however, closed the six months service with Frazier's regiment, after having participated in most of the engagements of the Missouri campaign, including the battle of Pea Ridge in Arkansas. He then went into the Confederate service, and as a recruiting officer enlisted a large number of men, both in Missouri and Arkansas. He materially assisted in the organization of Freeman's brigade, and was elected captain of Company C, Fristoe's regiment, Eighth Missouri cavalry, Fre