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(c. 1841 - 1862)
Home State: Mississippi
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
Son of a wealthy planter, in 1860 he was an unmarried 20 year old overseer living with his parents, 6 younger siblings, and 16 slaves on the family plantation at Deasonville, MS. He gave his occupation as student when he enlisted in Corinth, MS on 30 May 1861 and he mustered the same day for one years' service as a Corporal in the McClung Rifles of Yazoo County, soon afterward Company F, 18th Mississippi Infantry. He was promoted to 2nd Sergeant by February 1862 and extended his enlistment for the duration of the war on 26 April. He was elected 3rd (or brevet/Junior 2nd) Lieutenant on 2 August 1862 to date from July.
On the Campaign
He was mortally wounded and captured in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He died soon afterward in a field hospital on the "Lavinia" (Lavenia) Grove farm near the West Woods at Sharpsburg. His father Thomas P Ellison (1809-1894) filed a claim for his final pay of $203.39 in March 1863 and received the payment in June 1863.
After the War
He was originally buried on the battlefield and was reinterred in the new National Cemetery in about 1867, mis-identified as 2nd. Lt. Ellison of the 18th Massachusetts Infantry (there was no such officer).
References & notes
His service basics from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3; Confederate records say he was killed outright at Sharpsburg but there is one Federal document that says he died of wounds on the Grove farm while a prisoner. His burial and identification in the 18th Massachusetts from the Cemetery History.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave. Deasonville, coincidentally, is only a mile or two from Sharpsburg, MS.
His brother Thomas (b. 1843) was also in Company F of the 18th Mississippi and may have been with him at Sharpsburg. Thomas died, probably of disease, in Richmond, VA on 10 September 1864.
More on the Web
It is probably his original gravesite just west of the West Woods which was marked as "Lt. Wilson, 18th Miss." on the 1864 Elliot Burial Map.
Birth
c. 1841 in MS
Death
09/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Antietam National Cemetery, Sharpsburg, MD
1 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 32127]
2 Antietam National Cemetery, Board of Trustees, History of Antietam National Cemetery, Baltimore: John W. Woods, Steam Printer, 1869, p. 120 [AotW citation 32128]