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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)
der. In April, 1862, he was promoted to first lieutenant of artillery and assigned to duty as ordnance officer under Colonel Rosser. He continued upon the staff of this officer, afterward promoted to general, throughout the campaigns in Virginia and across the Potomac, until a short time before the close of the war. He was finally on duty as volunteer aide upon the staff of General Deering. On the day following the surrender at Appomattox, Lieutenant Porter rode from Highbridge to Franklin county, Va., and a few days later back to South Carolina. His military service brought him into many of the most famous campaigns and battles of the war, and his every effort was to perform faithfully his duties as a Confederate officer. Among the engagements in which he participated were: Second Manassas, Boonsboro Gap, Sharpsburg, Brandy Station, Kelly's Ford, Gettysburg, the Wilderness, Spottsylvania, Hawe's Shop, Trevilian Station, Catlett's Station, Reams' Station, Yellow Tavern, Jack's Sh