Eli Thomas Stackhouse

A teacher and later farmer in Marion County, he enlisted as Private, Company I, 8th South Carolina Infantry on 9 January 1861, transferred to Company L, and was appointed Captain soon after.

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

He was wounded again, at Gettysburg, PA in July 1863 and was served in the SC House of Representatives that year. He was promoted to Major and Lieutenant Colonel and wounded for the third time, at Deep Bottom, VA in July 1864. He was promoted to Colonel of the Regiment in April 1865.

He returned to the State House 1865-66 and was again a farmer, near Little Rock in Marion County. He was a founding trustee of Clemson College in 1887 and elected to the US House of Representatives in November 1890 and was serving in that office at his death at age 68 in 1892.

His basic service from Brasington's Roster.1 Personal details from his Congressional Biography,2 the Congress' Memorial Addresses on the Life and Character of Eli Thomas Stackhouse (1893) - a source of his picture as a Congressman, and from family genealogists. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Elizabeth Anna Fore (1830-1892) in 1849 and they had at least 7 children.

Although he always went by Eli as an adult, he was probably named Elijah at birth.

03/27/1824; Little Rock, Marion County, SC

06/14/1892; Washington, DC; burial in Saint Pauls Methodist Church Cemetery, Little Rock, SC