The Soldier-Bishop Ellison Capers, 1912, 1st ed, Civil War, Citadel, Episcopal

  

Title: The Soldier-Bishop Ellison Capers. Capers, Bishop Capers' Son and President of Columbia Institute. Publisher: The Neale Publishing Company, New York. In publisher's purple-blue cloth with titles and decorations in gilt bordered by red. Illustrated with b/w plates, including frontispiece.

Charles Bratton Dubell to unknown recipient on ffep; Dubell was Rector of St. Matthew's Church, Wilmington, and appears in the Papers of Alfred I. Du Pont as a friend and correspondent. Additional information: A Charleston native and Citadel graduate, Capers was an officer at Sumter and, later, the Battle of Secessionville, South Carolina's largest land battle. Rising to the rank of brigadier general, he took part in the Vicksburg and Chickamauga campaigns, and the disastrous Battle of Franklin, Tenn. Capers was captured at Bentonville, N. After the war, he was an Episcopalian bishop, chancellor of USC, and chaplain general of the United Confederate Veterans, known for commemorating the'Lost Cause.

He was also elected secretary of state for South Carolina and, from 1904-08, was chancellor of the University of the South at Sewanee, Tenn. He died in Columbia and is buried there at Trinity Episcopal. Capers Hall at The Citadel is named in his honor. [adapted from The State, January 20, 2011].