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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), Biographical (search)
St. Denis, in Charleston county, in the territory originally called Berkeley county. His mother was of Irish extraction, her father, William McGill, having settled in Kershaw county, upon coming from Ireland. William Capers, the grandfather of Ellison, was a soldier of the revolution, a lieutenant in the Second South Carolina regiment, and after the fall of Charleston in 1780, one of Marion's captains in his famous partisan brigade, in which his only brother, G. Sinclair Capers, held the same rank. Several thrilling incidents in the career of these two gallant partisan captains are related by Judge James, of South Carolina, in his life of Marion. They were both planters. William Capers, father of Ellison, was born on his father's plantation, Bull Head, in St. Thomas parish, about 20 miles north of Charleston, January 25, 1790. He was graduated at the South Carolina college in Columbia, entered the Methodist ministry in 1808, and devoted his life and brilliant talents to his sa
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)
wn. He is director of a national bank, member of the board of trustees of graded schools, and chairman of the board of trustees of the Methodist church. Robert Emmet Ellison Robert Emmet Ellison was born in Fairfield county, S. C., August 8, 1846, the only son of Robert E. and Cynthia (Robertson) Ellison. His great-grandfatRobert Emmet Ellison was born in Fairfield county, S. C., August 8, 1846, the only son of Robert E. and Cynthia (Robertson) Ellison. His great-grandfather, Robert Ellison, was a native of Ireland, coming to this country and settling in South Carolina and becoming one of the pioneers of Fairfield county. He was one of the founders of Mount Zion college, of Winnsboro, the oldest educational institution in the State, and one from which many of her sons have passed to useful and crEllison. His great-grandfather, Robert Ellison, was a native of Ireland, coming to this country and settling in South Carolina and becoming one of the pioneers of Fairfield county. He was one of the founders of Mount Zion college, of Winnsboro, the oldest educational institution in the State, and one from which many of her sons have passed to useful and creditable careers. He was also captain in the Revolutionary war. His great-grandson, Robert, the subject of this sketch, was attending school at Hillsboro, N. C., at the outbreak of the war between the States, but returned at once to his native State, and at Charleston enlisted in Company D, of the Sixth South Carolina volunteers,