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Federal (USV)

Private

Elisha Clark Ranks

(1842 - 1894)

Home State: Massachusetts

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 29th Massachusetts Infantry

Before Antietam

A 19 year old in Boston, he enlisted there on 18 May 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company K, 29th Massachusetts Infantry on 22 May.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was in a hospital in Washington, DC by October and furloughed home for 30 days on 10 October 1862. He was discharged for disability from chronic diarrhea on 7 February 1863 at the Mason General Hospital in Boston.

After the War

In 1865 he was a laborer in Roxbury, MA and by 1880 he was a furniture packer in Cambridge, MA.

References & notes

His service from Soldiers, Sailors and Marines 1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1880, and the Massachusetts Census of 1865. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Ellen T. Donovan (1841-1894) in October 1864 and they had 4 children.

Birth

01/27/1842; Bath, ME

Death

12/28/1894; Everett, MA; burial in Glenwood Cemetery, Everett, MA

Notes

1 Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Adjutant General, Massachusetts Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines in the Civil War, 8 Vols, Norwood (MA): Norwood Press, 1931-35, Vol. 3, p. 331 [AotW citation 29980]

2 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Soldiers who served in US Volunteer organizations enlisted for service during the Civil War, Record Group No. 94 (Adjutant General's Office, 1780's-1917), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 29981]

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