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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)
y under Stonewall Jackson, and was with General Ripley when he was wounded at Sharpsburg. Under Ripley's successor, General Doles, of Georgia, he continued on duty as brigade commissary, until the Pennsylvania campaign, when he served with promotion to major on the staff of General Rodes, commanding a division of the Second corps. At the battle of Gettysburg he was taken prisoner, and thence was sent to Fort Delaware and later to Johnson's island. In 1864 he was specially exchanged for Major Pruyn, of Albany, N. Y., returning south by way of Governor's island, N. Y., by the steamer Arago to Port Royal, and thence to Charleston, where the exchange was made. He was then called to Richmond by the secretary of war and assigned to duty at Chester, S. C., with orders to expedite the forwarding of supplies from the southwestern States to the army in Virginia. He remained on duty in South Carolina until the close of hostilities. A year or two later he was admitted to the bar and located