Elias Cumbee

From Charleston, he enlisted as Private, Company D, 23rd South Carolina Infantry on 11 November 1861 in Santee.

He was "severely" wounded and listed as missing in action at Turner's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

He was declared a deserter in May 1863 but returned to duty sometime that year. He was absent, sick in the Summer of 1864 and furloughed, but absent without leave after September. He was captured in 1865.

His service from his Compiled Service Records with his death from the casualty list for the 23rd South Carolina (Confederate States Army Casualty Lists and Narrative Reports, RG 109, NARA), both online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Emily "Emma" Hodge (1844-1927) and they had 9 children between 1869 and 1884.

1844; Berkley County, SC

02/09/1921; Berkley County, SC; burial in Apple Old Field Cemetery, Huger, SC