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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[681] 1862, and later on first lieutenant. In June, 1862, he went to Virginia and took part in the first battle on the Rappahannock river and in the Second Manassas, on the march to the Maryland campaign. At Boonsboro, September 14, 1862, he was captured and taken to Fort Delaware. After being exchanged about the 1st of December, he joined his command which had been transferred from Drayton's to Kershaw's brigade, at Culpeper Court House, and participated in the battles of Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, and Gettysburg. At the battle of Gettysburg he was struck by a shrapnel shot, but not seriously injured. The regiment then returned to Virginia and was sent with Longstreet on the Georgia and Tennessee campaign. In the battle of Chickamauga while in command of his company he was seriously wounded in the leg and sent home on furlough, where he remained for four months, joining his command at Russellville, Tenn., in January, 1864. In May the regiment was ordered back to Virginia and took an active part in the battle of the Wilderness, May 6th, after which they were in almost daily fighting, at Spottsylvania, Cold Harbor, Hanover Junction, and Petersburg, until July, 1864. On July 28th he lost his left arm on Newmarket Heights (called by some Fussell's Mill). It was amputated on the field and he remained in the Jackson hospital at Richmond until September 1st, when he returned to his home. He made two trips to the front after his recovery, to bring back the bodies of dead comrades, but his day of active service was done. After the close of the war he improved his education and began teaching, which occupation he followed for several years. In 1865 he was elected tax collector and served as such until 1868. In 1888 he was elected clerk of the court and successively re-elected in 1892 and 1896.

Lewis S. Jervey, a well-known cotton broker of Charleston, demonstrated patriotic devotion to his State and the Confederacy in his youth, as a cadet of the South Carolina military academy. Born January 6, 1848, he was but thirteen years of age at the beginning of the titanic conflict for the establishment of a new republic. In January, 1864, he entered the Arsenal academy at Columbia, and later, being transferred to the Citadel academy, he went into active service in November, under Maj.