Ellison Capers
Ellison Capers (* 14. October 1837 in Charleston , South Carolina ; † 22. April 1908 in Columbia , South Carolina) was a brigadier general in the Confederate in the Civil War and later bishop of the Episcopal Church .
Life
Capers was born in 1837 as the fourth son of the Bishop of the Episcopal Church, William Capers, and his wife Susan, b. McGill was born in Charleston and grew up on his parents' plantation. As a teenager he went to the military academy The Citadel and graduated successfully in 1857. He then worked as an assistant professor of mathematics at the academy with the rank of second lieutenant . In 1859 he married Charlotte Rebecca, the fourth daughter of John Gendron and Catherine Cotourier Palmer, also plantation owners in South Carolina.
When the civil war broke out, the 1st Infantry Regiment was set up in Charleston, which Capers entered and was promoted to major at the beginning . After a few smaller missions, his regiment was placed under the command of General Beauregard , with whom he took part in the attack on Fort Sumter on April 12 and 13 , after which he was appointed deputy regimental commander and his regiment was taken over into the Confederate Army . At first it was mainly used to secure the environment. On May 6, 1863, the regiment left South Carolina for Jackson , Mississippi ; eight days later, Capers was wounded at the Battle of Jackson . After his recovery, he was deployed as brigade commander in support of General Bragg in August and fought in the Battle of Chickamauga on September 19 and 20, 1863, in which Capers was wounded again.
In January 1864 he returned to active command of his brigade and in July of the same year took over the brigade of General Stevens , who had been fatally wounded at Peachtree Creek . He then took part in the Atlanta campaign until September 1864 , then in the Battle of Franklin on November 30, in which Capers was wounded for the third time and General States Rights Gist was killed. On March 1, 1865, Capers was promoted to brigadier general and was also given command of Gist's brigade.
After the war he took over the office of Secretary of State of South Carolina, which he held until December 1866. In 1867 Capers, following his father, turned to the Episcopal Church, in whose service he was active as rector at various colleges for the next 27 years . In 1889 he was awarded his doctorate by the University of South Carolina , and on May 4, 1893, he was ordained bishop of the Episcopal Church in South Carolina. He held the office of bishop until his death and from 1904 also served as chancellor of the church's own University of Sewanee in the state of Tennessee . Ellison Capers was buried on the grounds of the Trinity Episcopal Church in Columbia .
See also
literature
- David J. Eicher, The Civil War in Books: An Analytical Bibliography , University of Illinois, 1997, ISBN 0-252-02273-4
- Richard N. Current, Encyclopedia of the Confederacy (1993) (4 vol.) ( ISBN 0132759918 )
- John H. Eicher & David J. Eicher, Civil War High Commands , Stanford University Press, 2001, ISBN 0-8047-3641-3
- Ezra J. Warner, Generals in Gray: Lives of the Confederate Commanders , Louisiana State University Press, 1959, ISBN 0-8071-0823-5
Web links
- Ellison Capers in the database of Find a Grave (English)
- Caper's report of the Battle of Franklin ( February 17, 2006 memento in the Internet Archive )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Capers, Ellison |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Confederate General in the American Civil War |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 14, 1837 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Charleston , South Carolina |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 22, 1908 |
| Place of death | Columbia , South Carolina |