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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Elias Cumbee

(1844 - 1921)

Home State: South Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 23rd South Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

From Charleston, he enlisted as Private, Company D, 23rd South Carolina Infantry on 11 November 1861 in Santee.

On the Campaign

He was "severely" wounded and listed as missing in action at Turner's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was declared a deserter in May 1863 but returned to duty sometime that year. He was absent, sick in the Summer of 1864 and furloughed, but absent without leave after September. He was captured in 1865.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records with his death from the casualty list for the 23rd South Carolina (Confederate States Army Casualty Lists and Narrative Reports, RG 109, NARA), both online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Emily "Emma" Hodge (1844-1927) and they had 9 children between 1869 and 1884.

Birth

1844; Berkley County, SC

Death

02/09/1921; Berkley County, SC; burial in Apple Old Field Cemetery, Huger, SC