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Confederate (CSV)

Quartermaster Sergeant

John B. Elliott

(c. 1840 - ?)

Home State: Texas

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 4th Texas Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

A 22 year old student, he enlisted at Camp Clark in Guadalupe County as a Private in Company F, 4th Texas Infantry on 11 July 1861. He was appointed Quartermaster Sergeant of the regiment by April 1862.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was on sick or wounded furlough to Texas beginning 10 October and was reduced again to Private, Company F, on 1 November 1862. He was still in Texas on 29 March 1863, when Colonel William Bradfute (later commanding 8th Texas) requested he be assigned to his command as Adjutant. It was denied on the grounds that the Colonel didn't have a regiment or battalion, so wasn't authorized an Adjutant, and Elliott was ordered back to his regiment. There is no later military record in his file.

References & notes

Service information from his Compiled Service Records,1 via fold3. His wound at Sharpsburg from the Austin casualty list in the Dedication.2

Birth

c. 1840; San Antonio, TX

Notes

1 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 26949]

2 Chilton, Frank B., Unveiling and Dedication of Monument to Hood's Texas Brigade, Houston: F.B. Chilton, 1911, pg. 74 [AotW citation 26950]

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