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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Elijah Frank P. Couch

"Frank"

(1844 - 1894)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

An unmarried 16 year old farmer from Cleburne County, AL near the Georgia state line, he enlisted in Montgomery, AL on 26 July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company E, 13th Alabama Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was with his company in action at Turner's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September and at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was in the prison at Castle Thunder in Richmond, VA by June 1863. He was sick in a Richmond, VA hospital in July then sent back to Castle Thunder on 5 August. He was tried by a court martial in September 1863, charges and outcome not found. He was listed as a deserter from 26 February 1864 with no later military record.

After the War

In 1870 he was a grocer in Atlanta, GA and by 1880 he was a policeman there.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, and the Archives,2 who have him in Company K. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1850, 1870, and 1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Mary E. Anderson (1846-1911) in July 1865 and they had 5 children.

Birth

11/01/1844; Coweta County, GA

Death

08/11/1894; in GA; burial in Oakland Cemetery, Atlanta, GA

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 32435]

2 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 32436]

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