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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Ellis Pleasant Midkiff

(c. 1846 - 1863)

Home State: Texas

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 4th Texas Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

About 16 years old, he enlisted at Anderson, Grimes County as a Private in Company G, 4th Texas Infantry on 19 March 1862.

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 killed at Gettysburg, PA on 3 July 1863.

References & notes

Service information from Davis 1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 via fold3, both as E.P. Midkiffe. Polley 3 says he was killed at Gaines' Mill. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census for 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1846; Bedias, TX

Death

07/03/1863; Gettysburg, PA; burial in Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, VA

Notes

1 Davis, Rev. Nicholas A., The Campaign from Texas to Maryland, Houston: Telegraph Book and Job Establishment, 1863, pg. 161 [AotW citation 1850]

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 26697]

3 Polley, Joseph Benjamin, Hood's Texas Brigade, New York: The Neale Publishing Company, 1910, pg. 326 [AotW citation 26698]

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