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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)
rolina college in 1849, and subsequently, until he attained the years necessary for admission to the bar, read law in the office of Judge Robert Munro. He was engaged in the practice of his profession at Charleston from 1853 until December, 1860, when upon the secession of the State he entered the military service as adjutant of the First regiment, South Carolina rifles, commanded by Col. J. J. Pettigrew. In this capacity he served at Castle Pinckney, at Secessionville, on Morris and Sullivan islands, until the fall of Sumter. In May, upon the organization of the Hampton legion under Col. Wade Hampton, he became adjutant of the command, and accompanied it to Virginia. He was with the legion in the battle of First Manassas, and continued upon the staff of Major-General Hampton through all the latter's promotions until near the close of the war. When Hampton was promoted brigadier-general after the Seven Days campaign, Lieutenant Barker was promoted to captain and assistant adjutant