Elihu Watts Griffin

He enlisted in Company A, 3rd South Carolina Infantry Battalion on 5 December 1861 at Columbia, SC at age 23.

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

He was treated at the US General Hospital #1, Frederick, MD, sent to Fort Delaware, then on to Aikens Landing, VA and exchanged on 2 October 1862. He was then furloughed home for 30 days. When he didn't return, he was charged as being absent without leave in December 1862. In April 1863 he was tried by court martial for desertion, and found not guilty - but as having been AWOL. He forfeited a month's pay and was at hard labor in camp for two weeks. He was wounded and captured in action at Knoxville, TN on 18 November 1863 and held at Louisville Military Prison. He was transferred to Rock Island, IL on 23 January 1864.

Basic information from Davis1.

c. 1838

03/17/1905; burial in Warrior Creek Baptist Cemetery, Laurens County, SC