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Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Additional Sketches Illustrating the services of officers and Privates and patriotic citizens of South Carolina. (search)
partanburg, was born at Lewes, Del., in 1827. He is the son of William Russel, a native of Delaware, and a soldier of the war of 1812. His paternal ancestors, originally English, first settled in Broad-Kiln Hundred, Sussex county, Del., prior to 1700; and his maternal ancestor, Thomas Coleman, born in the north of Ireland, of Scotch parents, married Elizabeth Roe, and settled at Cornwall, Orange county, N. Y., about 1700. Dr. Russel was educated at Newark academy and Delaware college, being gr1700. Dr. Russel was educated at Newark academy and Delaware college, being graduated at the latter in 1847, after which he began the study of medicine, and received his medical degree from the university of Pennsylvania in 1850. His first practice was at Canandaigua, N. Y., whence he removed to Spartanburg in 1854. At the beginning of hostilities in 1861 he was appointed assistant surgeon of Holcombe's legion, commanded by Col. P. F. Stevens, and in 1862 he was promoted to surgeon of the brigade of Gen. N. G. Evans. He served with this command in the army of Northern