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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) 5 1 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)
than Colonel Means, and as a statesman in the councils of his State no man maintained the courage of his convictions with more boldness and constancy. Captain T. Sumter Means, M. D., of Spartanburg, one of the leading physicians of northern South Carolina, was born in 1833, son of James K. and Margaret (Clowney) Means. His fate latter it is related that on one occasion he brought in five British prisoners, and on being asked how he secured their surrender, replied: I surrounded them. Dr. Means was reared in Spartanburg county, was graduated in medicine at the university of Pennsylvania, and after a year's practice in the hospitals of that city embarkeden suffered terribly, and all the officers of the company were either killed or wounded, leaving a sergeant in command at the close of the first day's battle. Captain Means was severely wounded, and soon afterward started for home to recover, but was captured at Huntsville, Ala., and held there for several months. After his excha