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Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Additional Sketches Illustrating the services of officers and Privates and patriotic citizens of South Carolina. (search)
estors, who came there from York county, Pa., in colonial times. Both his grandfathers were soldiers of the Revolution. With such patriotic blood in his veins he responded promptly when his State was in peril, and became a member of the Jasper light infantry, Company I, of the Fifth regiment. Ordered to Virginia with his regiment, he took part in the great victory at Manassas, July 21, 1861, and in the following spring was on duty at Yorktown. There the regiment was reorganized, and on April 28th he was elected second lieutenant of Company E. In the battle of Seven Pines he was seriously wounded, causing his disability for several months. Then rejoining his regiment at Winchester he was promoted to first lieutenant and from this time until the close of the war was in command of the company, the captain having been made prisoner by the enemy, and led his men with courage and ability in twenty-seven hard-fought battles. He was with Lee at Appomattox, and then returning to his home