Elihu Watts Griffin

Age 23, he enlisted on 5 December 1861 at Camp Hampton near Columbia, SC and mustered as a Private in Company A, 3rd South Carolina Infantry Battalion.

He was sent to a hospital in Frederick, MD by 12 September, left behind, and captured there.

He was treated at the US General Hospital #1, Frederick, MD to 19 Setpember, sent to Fort Delaware, then on to Aikens Landing, VA for exchange on 2 October. He was then furloughed home for 30 days from a Richmond, VA hospital on 7 November and formally exchanged on 10 November 1862. When he didn't return by 7 December 1862 he was charged as being absent without leave (AWOL). In April 1863 he was tried by court martial for desertion and found not guilty - but found to have 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. He was sent for exchange on 15 February 1865, place not given.

In 1880 he was a laborer in Laurens County, SC.

His service from Davis,1 who says he was captured on 14 September 1862 at Fox's Gap, and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. He's also on the Confederates In Frederick List.3 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave; his modern government headstone has him as Elihagh W Griffin, with birth in 1827, both probably. in error.

He married Sarah A. (?, c. 1834-) and they had at least one child, daughter Martha (c. 1867-).

c. 1838 in SC

03/17/1905; burial in Warrior Creek Baptist Cemetery, Gray Court, SC