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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)
ate of the South Carolina university, and is married to Jessie Richardson, a daughter of Rev. S. M. Richardson, of Sumter, S. C. William Chambers Coker is a graduate of distinction of the South Carolina university, and the other children at this writing (1898) are at school. Captain William Caleb Coker Captain William Caleb Coker was born near Society Hill, S. C., June 8, 1839. He was educated at the schools of his native town and at the South Carolina college, graduating there in December, 1859. He commenced teaching in the St. Evans academy of Society Hill and was thus engaged when the war broke out. He enlisted April 13, 1861, in Company F, Eighth South Carolina infantry, commanded by Capt. W. H. Evans. He served as sergeant until March, 1862, when he with his captain and fifteen members of the company reenlisted for the war and were sent home to recruit the company. The company thus formed was mustered in as company M, Eighth South Carolina infantry, T. E. Howle captain,