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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[759] Supreme court of the United States. General Moore was born at Coosawhatchie, Beaufort district, S. C., on February 25, 1837. He received his primary education at the academy at Gillisonville, S. C., and was graduated at the university of Georgia, at Athens, in August, 1856. Returning home, he was admitted to the bar in 1859, and began the practice of his profession at Gillisonville, then the county seat of Beaufort district. In June, 1861, he entered the Confederate service as first sergeant in Company C (known as the Beaufort district troop of cavalry), of the Hampton legion. This troop entered the legion carrying with it the same commissioned officers they had at home. The office of first sergeant was the highest office vacant, and this was tendered to him. At the reorganization of the legion in 1862 he was elected lieutenant of Company C, and on the same day was made adjutant of the cavalry of the legion, which was soon after recruited to a full regiment, known as the Second South Carolina cavalry, and he was appointed adjutant of that regiment. In 1861 he participated in the following engagements: Freestone Point, on the Potomac river, the cavalry supporting the artillery; and the cavalry fight at Pohick Church in Fairfax county, Va. In 1862 he took part in the following battles: Yorktown, Va., where the cavalry formed the rear guard when that place was evacuated; Williamsburg, Seven Pines, the Seven Days battles around Richmond, beginning with Mechanicsville and ending with Malvern Hill; and the skirmishes which led up to the battle of Second Manassas. He also took an active part in the skirmishes around Frederick City, Md., and in the battles of Harper's Ferry and Sharpsburg; and in the numerous cavalry engagements in the valley of the Shenandoah in the fall of 1862. In the campaign of 1863 he was engaged in the battles of Brandy Station (9th of June, 1863), Upperville, Rockville, Westminster, Hanover, Pa., and the second and third days at Gettysburg, and the numerous cavalry engagements succeeding that battle. At Brandy Station (August 1, 1863) he was badly wounded and disabled for two months. He then took part in the battles of Mine Run, Parker's Store, and the Dahlgren raid. In the spring of 1864 the regiment was ordered to South Carolina to recruit, was stationed for a while on James island, and while there took part in a fight at Secessionville. They were then scattered