Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina
Clement Anselm Evans, Ed.

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[430] year. In August, 1864, he returned to his regiment and served with it as adjutant in all of the engagements of that summer and autumn. In the winter of 1864-65 he was promoted to the position of assistant inspector-general on the staff of Maj.-Gen. P. M. B. Young, in which position he served until the close of the war. After his return home he took up the study of law and was admitted to the bar in 1866. He rose rapidly in the profession, commanding a large and lucrative practice in the courts of equity and common law, and achieving distinction as a criminal lawyer, inheriting in a large measure that fervid eloquence for which his father was noted. He has served in the legislature as a representative from Barnwell county, was presidential elector in 1876, casting the vote of the State for Samuel J. Tilden, and again in 1884 for Grover Cleveland. He has been prominent in the politics of the State for twenty years and is now State senator from Barnwell county. He was married October 15, 1872, to Miss Sophie S., the eldest daughter of ex-Gov. M. L. Bonham, of Edgefield, S. C. They have four children living: Annie Bonham, Martha Ayer, Sophie Bonham, and Roberta. Their gifted son, James Hagood, died November 15, 1896, at the age of twenty-three years.

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Charles M. Amos

Charles M. Amos, of Spartanburg, a veteran of the Palmetto Sharpshooters, was born in Spartanburg county in 1844, a son by his second wife, Mary McElreath, of Charles Amos, a native of Virginia, who for forty years was the manager of the Cowpens furnace. By his previous marriage Charles Amos had a large family, of which five sons were Confederate soldiers: Franklin, also a veteran of the Mexican war, who served as commissary agent with the Confederate army; Ross, of the Thirteenth Georgia regiment, who was killed at Seven Pines; Benjamin F., of the Fifth South Carolina, died in the service; Rufus, of a Georgia regiment, promoted to captain and killed at Seven Pines; and James, of Captain Cleary's company, Thirteenth South Carolina, killed in the mine explosion at Petersburg. Charles M. Amos, when about eighteen years of age, enlisted in February, 1862, as a private in Company E, Sixth South Carolina volunteers, later reorganized as the Palmetto Sharpshooters, Col. Micah Jenkins commanding. He was in the first battle