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Federal (USV)

Private

James Elliott

(c. 1839 - ?)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 90th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

A 22 year old miller, he enlisted and mustered into service as a Private in Company G, 90th Pennsylvania Infantry on 2 December 1861 in Philadelphia.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in the shoulder in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He transferred to Company E, 11th Pennsylvania Infantry on 26 November 1864.

References & notes

His service from the Card File 1 and Bates.2 Wound information from Nelson.3

Birth

c. 1839; Philadelphia, PA

Notes

1 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Adjutant-General, Pennsylvania Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866, Published <2005, first accessed 01 July 2005, <http://www.digitalarchives.state.pa.us/archive.asp?view=ArchiveIndexes&ArchiveID=17> [AotW citation 23467]

2 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 23468]

3 Nelson, John H., As Grain Falls Before the Reaper: The Federal Hospital Sites and Identified Federal Casualties at Antietam, Hagerstown: John H. Nelson, 2004, pg. 200 [AotW citation 23469]

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