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

Major John S. Fairly, deceased, for many years a prominent figure in Charleston commercial life, came to South Carolina in his youth, and though not a native of the State, served her with devotion in the great struggle of 1861-65. During the war he held the rank of major on the staff of Gen. W. H. C. Whiting, and was a most efficient officer. After the war he returned to Charleston and engaged in business. When Gen. Wade Hampton was governor he served upon his staff with the rank of lieutenant-colonel. He was a man averse to notoriety of any kind, but was a warm and loyal friend, and his heart was a true and generous one. As an instance of his many acts of kindness and charity it is recalled that for many years he paid the expenses of a young lady at the Confederate Home, while the beneficiary of his generosity was never aware of the name of the friend to whom she was indebted. His death occurred at Fletcher's, N. C., in August, 1898.

Adolphus E. Fant, M. D., a well-known physician of Union county, of which he is a native, was born in 1841, the second of nine children of D. J. Fant and Nancy A. McJunkin. His father was a man of much prominence in the county, which he served nine years as commissioner, and his grandfather was also a native of the county, of Welsh descent. Dr. Fant was first in the State service in the Fifth regiment, on duty along the coast, at the beginning of the war of the Confederacy, and on April II, 1861, he enlisted in Company C, Seventh South Carolina cavalry, Colonel Gary commanding. After a considerable period of service in the State, he went with his command to Virginia, and there served in the cavalry division of Gen. W. H. F. Lee in a large number of engagements, prominent among which were Cold Harbor, Riddle's Shop, Darbytown Road, Fort Harrison, capture of Williamsburg, and the Stoneman raid. In the latter months of the war he was in almost continuous fighting. After the surrender he returned to South Carolina, and in 1866 entered the medical college at Atlanta, Ga. In 1867 he was graduated with distinction at the