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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[620] Wilson and Elizabeth (Kay) Hall, and was reared in Anderson county. In October, 1861, he joined Company F, Second South Carolina rifles, with which he served as a private and non-commissioned officer until the close of the war. He participated in the battles of Gaines' Mill, Frayser's Farm, Malvern Hill, Fredericksburg, Chickamauga, Will's Valley, Knoxville, Wilderness, Spottsylvania Court House, and siege of Petersburg, being twice slightly wounded. For fifteen months he served as flag bearer for his regiment, which was Moore's, of Jenkins' brigade, Longstreet's corps, Field's division, army of Northern Virginia. Since the war he has been a farmer in Anderson county. He was married in October, 1865, to Martha J. Snipes, who died December, 1881, leaving three children. On June 22, 1882, he married Mary Lou Snipes, niece of his first wife, and they have two children.

Captain Edwin Lindsley Halsey, captain of artillery in the Confederate States service, was born at Charleston, May 29, 1840. He is a descendant in the seventh generation of Thomas Halsey, a younger son of Robert Halsey, of Great Gaddesden, Hertfordshire, England, who came to America in 1637, and in 1640 was one of the founders of the town of Southhampton, L. I. Captain Halsey was educated in various excellent schools and academies and continued his classical and general studies under private tutors after he entered business life. In December, 1860, being at that time engaged with the famous publishing house of Russell & Jones, he enlisted in the Washington artillery of Charleston, and was a member of that command for six months. He then became a leader in the organization of the Washington artillery volunteers for service in Virginia. This command was trained and drilled by its first captain, Stephen D. Lee, to such a high state of proficiency that it afterward made a record surpassed by no other battery in the Confederate service. Halsey served first as sergeant, eight months later was promoted to senior first lieutenant, and on March 20, 1865, was commissioned captain. His command, known at various times as Lee's battery, Hampton's horse artillery, Hart's battery, and as a part of the Stuart horse artillery, was finally surrendered at High Point, N. C., with its numbers reduced to 105 men, under the name