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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[850] ordered to report to Gen. D. H. Hill, at Augusta, Ga., as assistant adjutant-general; but on reaching Columbia, and finding that General Hill had gone to North Carolina, he was assigned by Gen. B. F. Cheatham as adjutant-general upon the staff of General Ripley, commanding Cheatham's division. In March, 1865, he was assigned as colonel to the command of the Sixteenth South Carolina regiment. The Sixteenth and Twenty-fourth South Carolina regiments were afterward consolidated into one regiment, and Colonel Smith commanded it until the surrender. The five companies made up of the Sixteenth were given their paroles at Spartanburg, and the five companies made up from the Twenty-fourth were given their paroles, separately, at points nearest their respective muster grounds. Colonel Smith brought home the flags of the two regiments, of which he was the last commander, and afterward presented the standard of the Twenty-fourth to its old commander, General Capers, and the other to the association of survivors of the Sixteenth regiment. The military service of this gallant soldier included coast duty as engineer officer and with the Eleventh South Carolina regiment and at Fort Johnson, during the Federal bombardment of Sumter; at Jackson, Miss., during the two Federal investments; Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, the rear guard fighting of the retreat to Dalton, Resaca, Kenesaw Mountain, Peachtree Creek, Decatur, siege of Atlanta, Jonesboro, Dalton, Ship's Gap, Decatur, Ala.; Columbia, Spring Hill and Franklin, Tenn., where he was wounded, reporting again for duty at Bentonville, N. C. Making his home in Colleton county after the war he practiced medicine eighteen months, and then engaged in civil engineering, his present profession.

Colin Murchison Smith, a veteran of the South Carolina artillery service, was born in Marion district, in 1847. His youth prevented his enlistment in the first year of the war, but in April, 1862, being about fourteen years of age, he became a member of the McQueen battery commanded by Capt. M. B. Stanley, a veteran of the Mexican war. This organization was known as Company B of the South Carolina siege train until the latter part of 1863, when it was sent to Virginia under the command of Capt. Thomas E. Gregg and was generally known as