Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina
Clement Anselm Evans, Ed.

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[519] middle of September following, when, being convinced that he was permanently disabled, he resigned and returned home. He took 68 men into the battle of Gaines' Mill, 30 of whom were either killed or wounded. Fifteen were left upon the field and some six or eight died subsequently from the wounds they received. Of the officers the captain was severely wounded, the first lieutenant received a wound from which he died a few days later and the acting orderly-sergeant was killed. Since the war Captain Cox has given his attention to merchandising and farming. In 1885 he organized Camp Anderson, of Belton, of which he has been commander ever since. On October 12, 1854, he was married to Miss Martha M. Mattison, a native of Anderson county, S. C., who was born May 4, 1836, the daughter of William Mattison, of Anderson county. They have nine children living: William F., John T., Mallie E., Lula J., Edwin R., Ira W., Nannie L.,, Floyd M. and Charles F. Edwin R. was first lieutenant of Company A, Second South Carolina regiment, in the recent war with Spain. Judge William F. Cox, the eldest son of Captain Cox, was born at Anderson, S. C., October 2, 1855. He attended the public schools of Belton, and Patrick's high school, of Greenville, after which he entered Furman university. There he continued his studies until he reached the junior year. He then clerked for three years in a store in Belton, after which he was principal of the Belton academy for eight consecutive years, resigning the position in 1885. In 1886 he was elected to the office of probate judge of Anderson county. He entered upon the duties of his office in 1887, since which time he has been a resident of Anderson. He was subsequently twice re-elected, serving in all eight years, retiring in January, 1895. Since then he has been the manager of the Excelsior Oil Fertilizer company of Anderson. He is a member of the W. W. Humphreys camp, Sons of Veterans of Anderson, secretary of the board of trustees of the Anderson graded schools, of the board of trustees of the Baptist Theological seminary of Louisville, Ky., a director of the Farmers & Merchants' bank, and of the Excelsior Oil & Fertilizer company of Anderson. He was one of the principal movers in the establishment of this latter enterprise in 1895 and has been its manager ever since. He is also a director of the Anderson building and loan