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(c. 1837 - 1885)
Home State: Tennessee
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 4th Texas Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was in Giles County, TN. A 25 year old farmer, he enlisted along with his brother Hugh in Athens, TX as a Private in Company K, 4th Texas Infantry on 12 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 seriously wounded in the chest in the Wilderness, VA on 6 May 1864 and slightly in the foot on 7 October 1862, probably on the Darbytown Road near Petersburg, VA. He was surrendered and paroled at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 1865.
After the War
He was a farmer in Mendocino County, CA by 1880.
References & notes
Service information from Davis1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 via fold3. Personal details from family genealogists. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Mary Ann Cox (b. 1834) in July 1850 in Limestone County, AL.
His brother Hugh D. Elledge (b. 1834) was killed at Gaines' Mill, VA on 27 June 1862.
Birth
c. 1837; Cannon County, TN
Death
03/23/1885; Bartlett Springs, CA; burial in Ukiah Cemetery, Ukiah, CA
1 Davis, Rev. Nicholas A., The Campaign from Texas to Maryland, Houston: Telegraph Book and Job Establishment, 1863, pp. 164 - 165 [AotW citation 1922]
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 26935]