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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[477] devotion and distinction as Confederate soldiers. He was born in Fairfield county, in 1841, son of Walter and Emily (Moore) Brice, natives of South Carolina. At the beginning of the war he was attending school at Erskine college, but soon returned to his home, and on July 15th enlisted at Columbia, in Captain Austin's company of the Hampton legion. With this command he went into Virginia, and participated in the first battle of Manassas, after which he was on duty with the legion and engaged in all its battles until the beginning of the Maryland campaign, when he was transferred to the Sixth South Carolina regiment, Company D. He fought with the Sixth at Boonsboro and Sharpsburg, and at Fredericksburg was elected lieutenant. After this he took part in all the campaigns and battles of the Sixth and Jenkins' brigade until in the engagement at Campbell's Station, Tenn., November 16, 1863, while in command of a portion of the skirmish line he was shot in the right eye. Not only was the sight of that member totally destroyed, but the wound inflicted endangered his life. He made a very painful and difficult journey to his home, which he reached Christmas day, and was compelled to remain there until August 13, 1864, when he rejoined his regiment at Petersburg. He was on duty in the trenches several months, until in consideration of his wound he was detailed for light duty in South Carolina in February, 1865. The invasion by Sherman's army made it impossible to perform the duty assigned, and he soon afterward surrendered at Winnsboro, and returned at once to the care of his plantation. He is a member of Camp Rains, U. C. V., at Winnsboro, and is influential in his county, which he represented in the constitutional convention of 1895. By his marriage in 1866 to Nannie Boyce he has eight sons and one daughter living. The brothers of Lieutenant Brice in the service were: Robert Wade, who enlisted April 10, 1861, in a company of the Sixth regiment commanded by his brother, and was wounded in the battle of Seven Pines, compelling his resignation of the rank of lieutenant, to which he was elected; re-enlisted in the fall of 1864, in the Second cavalry, with which he served till the end, and is now very successful as a farmer in Fairfield county; Capt. James Michael Brice, who organized the Little River Guards at the outbreak of war, later enlisted as a private in the Sixth regiment, was promoted to captain,