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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[651] on parole across the Confederate lines, to await exchange. When he had recovered somewhat from his wound, he was sent to Greenville, S. C., to work in the enrolling service; and later to Newberry, to work in the quartermaster's department. In the fall of 1864 he was elected by the legislature as State treasurer. His term of office would have expired in 1869; but the State government having been reorganized by the adoption of a new constitution, framed in a convention of Republicans and negroes, held in the spring of 1868, under what was known as the reconstruction act of Congress, he, with all the other State officers, was displaced from office in September, 1868. He then assumed the duties of a professorship in Erskine college, his alma mater, to which he had been elected the previous fall; and for a period of twenty-four years he filled the chairs of chemistry, belles lettres, and geology, in that institution. In 1892 he was elected principal of the chemical department of the high schools of Washington, D. C., but resigned this position in 1893 and accepted the principalship of Summerlin institute, in Bartow, Fla. After teaching in Florida some years he retired from active work, and is now, as a citizen of Bartow, Fla., leisurely enjoying the evening of a long life honorably spent in the service of his country. In 1876 Professor Hood took an active part in reclaiming the State of South Carolina from the control of the Republicans and negroes, who had now held high political carnival in it for eight years. He was elected to the legislature that fall from Abbeville county, and consequently shared the hardships and dangers of the historic ‘Wallace House.’ He was a valued member of the ways and means committee, and as such rendered efficient service in readjusting the State finances. He was also a member of the bond commission elected by that legislature to examine the bond issues and funding operations of the Republican legislatures; and he, on the report of the commission to the legislature, led the debate in opposition to the payment of certain classes of bonds that the courts have since held were issued without authority of law. He was married in 1857 to Miss Martha McCaughrin, of Newberry, S. C., and they have eight children, four sons and four daughters, all of whom are living Their third son, John K. Hood, who was born in Due West, Abbeville county, S. C., March 29,