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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Elbert S. Jones

(? - 1863)

Home State: Virginia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 37th Virginia Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted and mustered as Private, Company A, 37th Virginia Infantry in Goodson (now Bristol), VA on 20 April 1861. He was wounded at Cedar Mountain, VA on 9 August 1862.

On the Campaign

He was slightly wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was wounded captured at Gettysburg, PA on 3 July 1863 and died there of wounds on 9 July.

References & notes

His service from Rankin1 via the Historical Data Systems database. His Sharpsburg wound detail from a casualty list, as E. Conly, in the Abingdon Virginian of 3 October 1862 online from the Library of Congress.

Death

07/09/1863; Gettysburg, PA

Notes

1 Rankin, Thomas M., 37th Virginia Infantry, Lynchburg: H.E. Howard, Inc., 1987 [AotW citation 21792]

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