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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), Biographical (search)
men. During the exciting period of reconstruction he took a conspicuous part in the movement which finally brought about the election of General Hampton in 1876, and he was elected on the same ticket as comptroller-general, having previously rendered services of great value in investigating the financial condition of the State and the State bank. He and Gen. James Conner were the advisers and executive officers of General Hampton during the perilous period preceding the recognition by President Hayes of the Hampton government. In 1878 he was re-elected comptroller, and in 1880 he was honored with the highest office in the gift of the commonwealth. His admirable reorganization of the finances of the State was fitly complemented by his honest, business-like and common-sense administration as governor. By his marriage to Eloise, daughter of Senator A. P. Butler, he had one son, Butler Hagood. The death of General Hagood occurred at Barnwell, January 4, 1898. Major-General Benja
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)
y by the war, which from an humble beginning has grown to the present successful Porter military academy. In 1879, through the influence of his friend, Lieutenant McQueen, with Generals Sherman and Howard, the United States government, by act of Congress, leased to the board of trustees of the academy the old arsenal grounds, where he had begun his ministry in 1855. The act was drawn by Senator Hampton, and through his influence and that of Gen. M. C. Butler, was passed and signed by President Hayes. He took possession of the grounds in 1880, and has since then continued the school there, educating over 3,000 boys. In 1888 General Butler suggested that as Dr. Porter had spent so much money in the enterprise, it should be permanently endowed, and that for this purpose the title to the grounds should be made perpetual. The two interested President Cleveland in the matter, and a bill was passed, and signed by the President, conveying the title of the United States to the trustees o