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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) 2 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 16. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 1 1 Browse Search
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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)
member of the German artillery, Camp Sumter, U. C. V., and a director of the Merchant's exchange. In Masonry he has held many honorable positions including that of eminent commander of the South Carolina commandery, No. 1, Knights Templar. Captain William F. Metts, of Greenville Captain William F. Metts, of Greenville, of the State service during the Confederate era, was born in Newberry county, February 11, 1821, the son of George Metts and his wife, Lucy Strother, a daughter of William Strother, a native of Virginia. Mr. Metts is a grandson of Henry Metts, or, as the name was originally spelled, Meetze, a native of Germany, who became one of the first settlers of Dutch Fork, Newberry county. The family removed to Laurens county when William F. was thirteen years old, and the latter resided there forty-six years, mainly engaged in agriculture, a pursuit in which he has met with notable success and happiness. At the time of the crisis of 1860-61 he had a comfortable home, wit
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 16. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Heroes of the old Camden District, South Carolina, 1776-1861. an Address to the Survivors of Fairfield county, delivered at Winnsboro, S. C., September 1,1888. (search)
Fort Moultrie. Its object was to provide the means of education for the orphan left forlorn and the children of indigent parents in the remote parts of the State. In the list of its members will be found, for the first time in the history of the State, commingled the names of the upper and lower country—Scotch-Irish Presbyterians, Huguenots, and Churchmen combining in the midst of war in the cause of education. Its first president was Colonel John Winn, and its directors were General William Strother and Captain Robert Ellison. Colonel Thomas Taylor and Captain Thomas Woodward were among the first signers of the Constitution. Among the names of its members were Andrew Pickens, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, and four sons of Anthony Hampton—Henry, Edward, Richard, and Wade—and the brother of Anthony, John Hampton. The teacher at this time was, it is believed, Mr. William Humphreys. Dr. Howe, in his History of the Presbyterian Church, says: At what time this school was discontinue<