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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[629] States, from 182 until 1860, and when Texas was fighting for her liberty, being then on furlough, he joined her forces. For thus taking part in a conflict with a friendly nation—as Mexico was then—he was cashiered by the United States, but was afterward reinstated into service, though at the end of the list, thus losing his promotion. He was captain in the revenue service of the United States in 1860, stationed at Galveston; but when his native State seceded he resigned his commission and entered the Confederate States service as captain of heavy artillery, remaining as such until after the battle of Sabine Pass, when he was made commodore in command of the fleet at that place. In the battle of Galveston, January 1, 1863, he, being then seventy years of age, commanded the guns on the Neptune. In that engagement he lost eight men out of fifteen, and had his lieutenant, Harvey Clark, killed at his side. During the fight his vessel, a converted river boat, was sunk, and he was the last to leave the ship. The end of the war found Captain Harby in command of the harbor of Galveston, in which city he continued to reside up to the time of his death, which occurred on December 3, 1870, having neither asked nor received a pardon from the government which he had served for forty-eight years. Captain Harby married, in 1842, Miss Leonora R., daughter of Judge L. S. DeLyon, of Savannah, Ga. He left three children: Mrs. J. W. Frank, of Galveston, Tex., since deceased; Henry J. Harby, of Houston, Tex., a member of Company C, Twenty-sixth Texas cavalry (DeBray's regiment); and J. D. Harby, now of Charleston, a member of the Eighth company, Texas light artillery, Fountaine's battalion, C. S. A.

Major Frank Bernard Hardin, professor of chemistry in Clemson college, S. C., was born at Alexandria, Va., August 14, 1838. He is the son of Lauriston B. Hardin, clerk and registrar of the navy department from the administration of Andrew Jackson to the time of his death in 1858. Major Hardin was reared to the age of sixteen in Washington city, and in 1854 entered the Virginia military institute, from which he graduated in 1858. Immediately after his graduation he was appointed assistant professor in the Virginia military institute, in 1860 was appointed adjunct professor, and continued in that