William Noah Ellis

In 1860 he was an unmarried 20 year old farm hand on his step-father Wright F Causey's place at Roanoke, Randolph County, AL. He enlisted in Montgomery, AL on 19 July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company I, 13th Alabama Infantry.

He was with his company in action at Turner's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862 and at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862, and was appointed Junior 2nd Lieutenant to date from that battle.

He was promoted to (Senior) 2nd Lieutenant on 14 January 1863 and was wounded and captured at Gettysburg, PA on 3 July 1863; he was promoted to First Lieutenant on that date. He was in US Army hospitals in Philadelphia and Chester, PA then on 31 August 1863 sent to the prison at Johnson's Island near Sandusky, OH. He was transferred to City Point, VA for exchange on 24 February 1865 with no later military record.

By 1880 he farming his own place at Omaha near Roanoke, AL. He was in Texas by 1883 and was an early settler of what became Omaha in Morris County, TX. He was probably responsible for that new name the residents picked in 1886.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, and the Archives.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860 & 1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Sara Elizabeth "Lizzie" Robinson (1848-1887) in December 1866 and they had 3 boys, then 3 girls.

His military records are inter-mingled and easily confused with those of Private William M. Ellis of Company C who was mortally wounded in the Wilderness and died in a Richmond hospital on 30 May 1864. He's buried in Hollywood Cemetery.

09/23/1839 in GA

02/14/1892; in TX; burial in Omaha Cemetery, Omaha, TX