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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) 2 2 Browse Search
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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)
pent two years in study and travel in Europe, returning to South Carolina just after the secession of that State. His first war service was as a private with the Third regiment of South Carolina State troops. He was soon made an aide on Gen. A. C. Garlington's staff of State troops; but on their transfer to the Confederate service he returned to the ranks and served until after the first battle of Manassas, when he was discharged on account of sickness. In April, 1862, he joined Company B, Fry Williams Nance, daughter of Drayton Nance, and sister of Col. James D. Nance, who was killed at the battle of the Wilderness. She died September 25, 1885, and on December 24, 1891, he married Miss Octavia E. Garlington, daughter of Gen. Albert C. Garlington, of Newberry, S. C. He has four children living, three sons and one daughter. Major John S. Fairly, deceased, for many years a prominent figure in Charleston commercial life, came to South Carolina in his youth, and though not a nati