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(c. 1829 - 1863)
Home State: Alabama
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 44th Alabama Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was a married 30 (26?) year old mechanic at Centereville in Bibb County, AL. He enlisted at Six Mile, AL on 4 March 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company F, 44th Alabama Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was severely wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was admitted to a hospital in Richmond, VA on 26 September, furloughed home on 9 (or 13) October, and returned to duty on 9 January 1863. He was killed at Raccoon Mountain near Chattanooga, TN on 28 October 1863. His widow Margaret C Corley filed for his final pay in August 1864.
References & notes
His service from the State of Alabama,1 also as Elisha H Corley, age 26, and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. He's also on a Sharpsburg casualty list in the Richmond (VA) Enquirer of 17 October 1862. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860.
He married Margaret Catherine Carroll (1836-1889) in August 1852 and they had at least 4 children.
Birth
c. 1829 in AL
Death
10/28/1863; Raccoon Mountain, TN
1 State of Alabama, Dept. of Archives & History, Alabama Civil War Service Database, Published 2004, first accessed 01 January 2010, <https://archives.alabama.gov/research/CivilWarService.aspx> [AotW citation 31656]
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 31657]