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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[807] department of the university of New York in 1845. He practiced medicine in Orangeburg county until the fall of 1860, when he removed to Fairfield county. On the beginning of the war he volunteered and went to Charleston as a private, and after some service there he was sent home to look after the sick and wounded of his home county, and was thus engaged most of the time. Near the close he again entered the service, this time in the reserves, and served in Johnston's army until the end. After the war he practiced his profession until his death. He was married, May 15, 1851, to Miss Lucy Merritt, daughter of Rev. William Merritt, a Baptist clergyman, and they have six living children.

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Henry Edmund Ravenel

Henry Edmund Ravenel was born in Charleston, S. C., March 25, 1824, and was a member of an ancient and aristocratic family of Huguenot extraction. He spent his youth in Charleston, and graduating from Charleston college, became a business man, as a member of the firm of Muir, Ravenel & Co., exporters of cotton. His health failing, he traveled two years in Europe with his wife, after which, upon returning to this country, he located in upper South Carolina, near Pendleton, in 1855. When the war broke out he went twice to Charleston and enlisted in the Confederate service, remaining four months during one enlistment; but, owing to poor health, he was not permitted to serve throughout the whole war. Returning to his home in Pickens (now Oconee) county, he succumbed to a shattered constitution on December 15, 1863. He and his wife, Selina Eliza Porcher, had a family of seven children, one of whom is Henry Edmund Ravenel, a lawyer, of Spartanburg. The latter was born at Seneca plantation, Oconee county (then Pickens district), where his mother still resides, September 3, 1856. He graduated at Charleston college in 1876, then studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1879, and at once began the practice of his profession in Charleston. He located in Spartanburg in 1885 and is now a leading attorney of that city. He is one of the authors of the Ravenel & McHugh digest, South Carolina reports, published in 1880, which has been favorably noticed and highly commended by the ablest jurists of the State. He is secretary and treasurer of the board of trustees of the public schools of Spartanburg, a position which he has