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Confederate (CSV)

Private

E. M. Ewing

Home State: Texas

Branch of Service: Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted in New Orleans (or Marshall, TX) on 28 May 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company E, First Texas Infantry on 6 June. He was ill in Lynchburg, VA with rubeola (measles) in June 1862 and listed absent without leave in August, "left near Beaver Dam, sick 20th of Aug."

On the Campaign

He was with his company in Maryland but again left behind sick, in Frederick, MD, and captured there on 13 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was sent from Fort Delaware to Aikens' Landing, VA on 2 October for exchange, and formally exchanged there on 10 November. He was in a hospital in Richmond, VA by 8 October and was "sent home" on sick furlough in December 1862. He was again listed absent without leave in June 1863 and declared a deserter in August with no later record with the First Texas.

References & notes

His service from Simpson1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3.

He was possibly Ephraim McLain Ewing (28 January 1830 KY – 11 June 1891 TX). A 29 year old [Texas?] Ranger at Sherman in Grayson County, TX in 1860.

Notes

1 Simpson, Harold Brown, Hood's Texas Brigade: a Compendium, Hillsboro: Hill Junior College Press, 1977, pg. 40 [AotW citation 20910]

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 34050]

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