Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina
Clement Anselm Evans, Ed.

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[560] Orr treasurer of the Greenville & Columbia railroad, holding this position for four years. He then returned to Abbeville and formed a partnership with Major Wardlow, which continued until the death of that gentleman seventeen years later. Since then Captain Edwards has conducted a business of his own. He is director of a national bank, member of the board of trustees of graded schools, and chairman of the board of trustees of the Methodist church.

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Robert Emmet Ellison

Robert Emmet Ellison was born in Fairfield county, S. C., August 8, 1846, the only son of Robert E. and Cynthia (Robertson) Ellison. His great-grandfather, Robert Ellison, was a native of Ireland, coming to this country and settling in South Carolina and becoming one of the pioneers of Fairfield county. He was one of the founders of Mount Zion college, of Winnsboro, the oldest educational institution in the State, and one from which many of her sons have passed to useful and creditable careers. He was also captain in the Revolutionary war. His great-grandson, Robert, the subject of this sketch, was attending school at Hillsboro, N. C., at the outbreak of the war between the States, but returned at once to his native State, and at Charleston enlisted in Company D, of the Sixth South Carolina volunteers, serving for a short time on the coast. About the middle of July his regiment was sent to Virginia, arriving at Manassas on the evening of the day of that famous battle. The first battle in which this regiment was engaged was Dranesville. At the reorganization of the regiment he became a member of Company G, and took part in the battles of Williamsburg and Seven Pines, in which their captain was killed. On his recovery from a spell of fever, Mr. Ellison was transferred to Company B, Seventh South Carolina cavalry, serving in Virginia, in General Gary's brigade. He took part in innumerable minor engage. ments and skirmishes, and during the last year of the war was almost constantly in campaigns which brought him under fire. Among the larger battles in which he took part were: Cold Harbor, Riddle's Shop, Smyrna Church, Nine-mile Road, New Market Heights, Darby Town, and Fussell's Mill. The Seventh South Carolina was the last regiment to leave Richmond at the time of its evacuation, and as they crossed Mayo's bridge they