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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Elihu Clayton Griffin

(1844 - 1862)

Home State: South Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 3rd South Carolina Infantry Battalion

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 16 year old living with his parents, 2 brothers, and 27 slaves on their plantation at Cross Hill in the Laurens District, SC. He enlisted on 2 April 1862 at Adams Run, SC and mustered as a Private in Company B, 3rd South Carolina Infantry Battalion.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action on 14 September 1862 at Fox's Gap.

References & notes

His service from Davis1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860.

Birth

02/22/1844 in SC

Death

09/14/1862; Fox's Gap, MD

Notes

1 Davis, Sam B., A History of the 3rd South Carolina Volunteer Infantry Battalion (James Battalion): 1861-1865 , Wilmington (NC): Broadfoot Publishing Company, 2009, pp. 68-71, Roster [AotW citation 15976]

2 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, Record Group No. 109 (War Department Collection of Confederate Records), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 34489]

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