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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Eli Kay

Home State: Texas

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 4th Texas Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted as a Private in Company G, 4th Texas Infantry on 26 March 1862 at Anderson in Grimes County.

On the Campaign

He was in action with his Company at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September and at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was sick in hospitals much of the time from the winter of 1862-63 until returned to duty in July or August 1863. He was afterward with his Company to about October 1864 when he was back in a hospital, in Richmond, VA. He was surrendered at Citronellle, AL on 4 May 1865 and paroled at Meridian, MS on 16 May.

After the War

Possibly died in 1867, per notice of his estate posted in Austin County, TX in that year.

References & notes

Service information from Davis 1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 via fold3, also as Ely Kay.

Notes

1 Davis, Rev. Nicholas A., The Campaign from Texas to Maryland, Houston: Telegraph Book and Job Establishment, 1863, pp. 159 - 161 [AotW citation 1843]

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 26694]

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