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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[821] Carolina light infantry, commanded by Captain Pinckney, and served until December, 1861, when he was honorably discharged, and entered the Citadel academy at Charleston, January 1, 1862, where he remained until the fall of 1864. He then enlisted in the Stono Scouts as a private and served until the war ended with this command. He fought at Averasboro and Bentonville, N. C., being promoted sergeant in March, 1865. After the war, returning to Charleston, he was employed in the internal revenue department as clerk for a year and then became a bookkeeper. In 1868 he studied law at Charleston and was admitted to the bar the same year. After practicing at Charleston a year he removed to Beaufort county, and spending one year there in the practice of his profession he was elected principal of the Barnwell academy. In 1873 he was elected trial justice of Beaufort county, and under the administration of Governor Hampton was reappointed. When the county was divided into Hampton and Beaufort, Mr. Sanders was appointed trial justice of Hampton county, and served as such until 1889. In 1890 he removed to Beaufort and after practicing law there about two years was elected principal of the Beaufort graded school, which position he now holds. He was the first coroner of Hampton county, elected in 1878, and served two years. He has been adjutant of Beaufort camp, U. C. V., since April, 1895. In October, 1870, he was married, in Beaufort (now Hampton) county, to Mary S., daughter of Henry Goethe, and they have eight children. Mr. Sanders was at one time aide-de-camp on Gov. Johnson Hagood's staff, with rank of lieutenant-colonel. He also served four successive terms as intendant of Varnville.

Lieutenant Hazel Furman Scaife, now a business man of Union, S. C., was one of six brothers who, with their father, were in the Confederate service. The Scaifes are of English ancestry, the name being one of the oldest in England and has been traced back to British mythology. During the civil war in England the Scaifes espoused the cause of Cromwell, and the sword of Maj. Robert Scaife is still preserved in a castle in England, which he held for the protector. Mr. Scaife's paternal grandmother belonged to the Terry family, of Virginia, of which