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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[572] A, Third South Carolina volunteers, with which he served until May, 1864, when he was captured at North Anna river and imprisoned at Point Lookout until January, 1865, when he escaped and returned home. He participated in the battles of Savage Station, Malvern Hill, where he was slightly wounded; Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Chickamauga, Knoxville, Reams' Station, Wilderness, Spottsylvania Court House and North Anna River. His company entered the battle of Fredericksburg with between forty and fifty men, and he was one of the three survivors who responded to roll call in the evening. After the war he began farming in Laurens county and continued in that occupation until 1894, when he was elected county auditor. He was reelected in 1896, and holds the office at the present time. He was married December 5, 1865, to Virginia E. Langston, and they have eight children living, six sons and two daughters. Three of his sons, John Lee, G. Hampton and Claude Pitts, were members of the Second South Carolina regiment enlisted for service in the recent war with Spain.

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Edward Bell Fishburne

Edward Bell Fishburne, of Summerville, S. C., was born in Colleton district, now Dorchester county, S. C. in 1840, and after his early education at that place was graduated from the South Carolina college in Columbia, in 1860. His Confederate service began in the fall of 1861, with Company K, Fourth South Carolina cavalry, as a private. After nearly three years with this command he was transferred to the Second South Carolina cavalry, Company B, in which after a few days he was made corporal. After the surrender of Lee and Johnston, the regiment, which was on its way to the Trans-Mississippi department, was ‘furloughed’ at Chester, S. C., for ten days, which practically ended its service. Mr. Fishburne was on the coast while in the service and was in the numerous skirmishes of that department, the heaviest of which was the fight of Battery Anderson near Wilmington, N. C. It is an incident in his war life that he was the last man of the rear guard who left Wilmington, N. C., when that city was evacuated. After the war he went to Sumter, S. C., and in the fall of 1865, on returning to his old home in Colleton county, commenced contracting and rice planting, to which he added the phosphate