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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)
n the various islands in Charleston harbor until after the fall of Fort Sumter. On April 13, 1861, he was commissioned second lieutenant in the army of the Confederate States, and his early assignments to duty were, first as drillmaster at Smithville, N. C., then at Fort Macon, Beaufort harbor, and later at Richmond, Va., where he served for several months as mustering officer under General Winder. In April, 1862, he was promoted to first lieutenant of artillery and assigned to duty as ordnanf the board of trustees of the State university, filling that position until 1894. In 1890 he located at Florence, S. C., and engaged in his present general stock and agricultural business. He was married in 1864 to Miss Sarah E. Davis, of Southport, N. C., and they have had three children, two of whom are living, James C., a practicing physician at Whitesville, N. C., having been educated at the university of North Carolina and at the university of Maryland in Baltimore. The second son, Juli