Elisha C. Andrews

In 1860 he was an 19 year old farm boy living with his parents and siblings on the family place at Holmesville in Pike County, MS. He enlisted at Holmesville on 23 April 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company E, 16th Mississippi Infantry on 27 May 1861 in Corinth. He was appointed 2nd Sergeant on 26 April 1862 at the Army reorganization.

He was wounded in action at Sharpsburg, MD on 17 September 1862.

He was promoted to First Sergeant on 11 April 1863 and was captured on the Weldon Railroad near Petersburg, VA on 21 August 1864. He was a prisoner at Point Lookout, MD until 1 February 1865, when he was paroled and transferred south for exchange. He was in a Richmond, VA hospital by 5 February, with no later military record.

By 1870 and to at least 1880 he was a farmer in Pike County, MS. In 1900 and to at least 1910 he was farming in Amite County, MS.

His service from his Compiled Military Service Records,1 online from fold3. His Sharpsburg wound also from a casualty list in the New Orleans Times-Picayune of 29 October 1862, as Sgt Andrew. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Josephine Ellzey (1841-1866) in November 1865. He married again, Nancy Simmons (1846-1885) in October 1866 and they had 8 children. He married for the third time, Mary Aruazena Quin(n) (1844-) in October 1885, and they had 2 children.

His bother Thomas Jefferson Andrews (1844-1913) was also in Company E.

10/27/1841; Pike County, MS

06/25/1916; Gloster, MS; burial in Roseland Cemetery, Gloster, MS