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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[799] mechanical college, and reforms in expenditures, with telling effect; and in 1890, as candidate for attorneygen-eral on the ticket headed by Benjamin R. Tillman, made a memorable campaign, which resulted in the election of the ticket, and his success by a majority of 45,000 votes. After serving one year as attorney-general he was elected to the Supreme court, to succeed Judge Henry McIver, who was elected chief justice upon the death of Judge Simpson; and in 1896 he was unanimously re-elected for a term of eight years. Other honors enjoyed by Judge Pope have been the mayorship of Newberry for three terms beginning in 1880; the rank of brigadier-general of State troops, by appointment of Gov. Wade Hampton; the vice-presidency of the board of trustees of Newberry college, and trusteeship of the South Carolina college. He was married in 1874 to Sallie H. F., daughter of Colonel Fair, of Newberry, and widow of Col. William D. Rutherford, who fell in the Confederate service. They have had two daughters: Mary Butler (deceased), and Harriet Neville. The death of his daughter, Mary Butler, in October, 1893, was a crushing blow.

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Commander Philip Porcher

Commander Philip Porcher was born in Charleston, S. C., September 16, 1835, of Huguenot stock. He entered the naval academy at Annapolis in 185, and after the ususal course graduated at the head of his class. He served in the United States navy until the secession of South Carolina, when he resigned his commission of lieutenant, and entered the Confederate States navy as first lieutenant. Toward the latter part of the war he became lieutenant-commander. He served under Commodore Tattnall at Savannah, was an officer on the ironclad Palmetto State, at Charleston, and participated in the attack on the Federal fleet off Charleston bar, made by Commodore Ingraham in February, 1863. He was recognized as an officer of high talent and intrepidity, and was warmly commended by Commodore Tucker for his gallantry in capturing the launch of the U. S. frigate Wabash, while reconnoitering Charleston harbor. The launch carried twenty-three men and a 12-pound howitzer, while Lieutenant Porcher's boat was unarmed and carried only eleven riflemen. In January, 1864, he was chosen by Commander Taylor Wood as one of the officers who took part in the capture and destruction of the U. S.