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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[581] Fort Fisher, N. C., and Bentonville, N. C. After the surrender he returned to Lexington county and resumed the practice of his profession at Batesburg, where he has maintained a successful and lucrative practice since. He was married in 1879 to Miss Mary Youngblood, of Edgefield county, and they have five children: John, James Shelton, Louis Wigfall, Thomas Halsey and Mary Eliza. He is commander of James Conner camp, U. C. V., at Batesburg, and a member of the Masonic fraternity.

Colonel Anthony Cook Fuller, one of a family of Confederate brothers, was born in Laurens county, S. C., February 10, 1825. His father, Alsey Fuller, was a successful and wealthy planter, a prominent citizen of Laurens county, and a member of the South Carolina nullification convention of 1832. His mother was Anna Jane Cook, daughter of John Cook, whose father was an Englishman and a relative of the famous navigator. Dr. Fuller was reared on his father's farm, attending the neighborhood schools and the Cokesbury manual labor institute, where he was prepared for the South Carolina college, graduating there in 1844. After teaching a year he embarked in mercantile pursuits at Mountville, Laurens county, studying medicine at the same time. He took one course of lectures at Lexington, Ky., and his second course at the Charleston medical college, where he graduated in 1848. He never became a practicing physician, but after about four years experience as a merchant he turned his attention to farming and surveying and was thus engaged until the beginning of the war between the States. Dr. Fuller was married, August 1, 1850, to Miss Amelia C. Watson, daughter of Dr. Elijah Watson. In 1856 Dr. Fuller was elected to the South Carolina house of representatives, where he served one term. Volunteering at the beginning of the war, he became a lieutenant in Company C, James' battalion, and served on the coast of South Carolina for about eight months, when he was transferred to the commissary department, in which he remained until the close of the war, with the exception of three months when he was lieutenant-colonel of Williams' Ninth regiment of South Carolina reserves. He was in the Confederate service through the four years of war, but was never sent out of the State of South Carolina. Dr. Fuller had four brothers in the