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(c. 1814 - 1897)
Home State: Virginia
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 19th Virginia Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was a 46 year old carpenter in Charlottesville, Albemarle County, VA. On 25 May 1861, giving his age as 42, he mustered as a Private in Company F, 19th Virginia Infantry at Charlottesville, VA. He reenlisted for the war in April 1862.
On the Campaign
He was wounded by gunshot to his face in action at Turner's Gap on South Mountain, MD on 14 September 1862, his frontal (skull) bone fractured and his left eye destroyed. He was captured there.
The rest of the War
He was sent to Fort McHenry in Baltimore and on to Fortress Monroe, VA for exchange on 17 October. He was admitted to Chimborozo Hospital in Richmond on 24 October and listed as a deserter from the hospital on 31 October 1862. He was afterward "permanently disabled" and did not return to his regiment.
After the War
Still living ion Albemarle County, he applied for admission to the Soldiers' Home (of the RE Lee Camp, Confederate Veterans) in Richmond in May 1895, giving his age as 85, and was probably a resident there at his death in Richmond in 1897.
References & notes
His service from Jordan1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. Wound details from the MSHWR.3 Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1860, and his Soldiers' Home application, online from the Library of Virginia (as William L. Ellis). His gravesite is on Findagrave; as William Gilbert Ellis.
He married Elizabeth Ann “Eliza” Durham (1826-1876) and they had at least 6 children. He may have married again, Martha Woody, in 1880.
Birth
c. 1814 in VA
Death
07/21/1897; Richmond, VA; burial in Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, VA
1 Jordan, Jr., Ervin I., and H. A. Thomas, Jr., 19th Virginia Infantry, Lynchburg: H.E. Howard, Inc., 1987 [AotW citation 31382]
2 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 31383]
3 Barnes, Joseph K., and US Army, Office of the Surgeon General, The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, 6 books, Washington DC: US Government Printing Office, 1870-1883, Volume 2, Part 1, p. 335 [AotW citation 31384]