James Elson

He came to America in about 1849. Giving his age as 18, he enlisted on 19 November 1861 in New York City and mustered in as a Private in Company C, 42nd New York Infantry on 4 December.

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

He was wounded again, at Gettysburg, PA on 3 July 1863. He was transferred to Company A, 82nd New York Infantry on 28 June 1864 and to Company H, 59th New York on 10 July. He transferred to the 2nd Battalion, Veteran Reserve Corps later that year.

He began receiving an invlaid veteran's pension in 1872 and by 1880 was a cabinet maker in Brooklyn, NY. In 1905, still in Brooklyn, he was a clerk for a book publishing company, and was their foreman by 1910.

His service from the State of New York,1 which does not mention his wounding at Antietam, also as James Elsom. His wound from a casualty list in the New York Daily Herald of 25 September 1862, as James Ellson. Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1880 & 1910, the NY State Census of 1905, the US Census of Union Veterans and Widows of the Civil War (1890), and his pension cards, online from fold3. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Mary E Dillon (1850-1930) and they had 6 children between 1867 and 1891.

05/24/1845; London, ENGLAND

11/08/1927; Brooklyn, NY; burial in Oak Lawn Cemetery, Fairfield, CT