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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[789] Ferry, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Wilderness, Spottsylvania Court House, and below Richmond. He was twice wounded, first at Gettysburg and the second time in 1864. At Gettysburg he was shot in the right thigh, and near the old battlefield of Frayser's Farm he was struck in the right shoulder. When the war closed he was at home as the result of his second wound. He was captured at Gettysburg and held a prisoner for two months, when he was exchanged. He has been twice married, first, December 5, 1865, to Frances Ann Cox, who died December 13, 1895, leaving nine children. On December 23, 1897, he married Miss Mattie Emma Burns. He removed to Fountain Inn in December, 1897, where he has since resided.

Charles L. Paul, clerk of the court of common pleas and general sessions of Beaufort, S. C., was born in Walterboro, S. C., in 1848, where he was reared and educated. He entered the Confederate service in the fall of 1864, in the Palmetto Guards, as a private, and served throughout the war, taking part in the following engagements: James Island, Averasboro, and Bentonville. He was never sick, never received a furlough, and escaped without a wound. After the war he was engaged in various lines of business until elected to his present office in 1896. In 1895-96 he held the office of magistrate of Beaufort.

Edwin Wiley Peeples, a Baptist minister of Varnville, S. C., was born in Beaufort district, now Hampton county, June 26, 1845, where he was reared and educated. He entered the Confederate service in the summer of 1862, in Company B, Kirk's squadron of cavalry, which was assigned later to the Tenth South Carolina regiment. He was made orderly-sergeant of Company B, serving as such until the close, and taking part in the battle of Honey Hill, S. C., and in the engagements at Raleigh, N. C., and Florence, S. C. After the war closed he joined his father near Lincolnton, Ga., and in the fall of 1865 returned to Beaufort district, where he engaged in farming until 1867. At this time he entered Wofford college at Spartanburg, from which he graduated in 1869 with the degree of A. M. He then taught school for a year in Blackville, studying law in the meantime,