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Confederate (CSV)

Captain

Elijah B. Smith

(1812 - 1865)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He was a founder of the Camp Ground Bethlehem Church near Graham (then Brookville) in Randolph County, AL in 1852 and was a Methodist Episcopal minister. In 1860 he was a 48 year old farmer at Brookville/Rockdale. He enrolled there on 12 July 1861 and mustered in Randolph County, AL on 26 July 1861 as Captain of Company K of the 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 resigned his commission on 19 December 1862 (accepted 1 January 1863) "in consequence of a broken down condition of [his] constitution" and being 50 years old.

He may have had later service in a local defense unit, and was "killed by bushwhackers" on 6 April 1865.

References & notes

His service from his Confederate Compiled Service Records1 online from fold3, and the Alabama Archives.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave; his stone has him as a Colonel.

Birth

04/14/1812 in GA

Death

04/06/1865; burial in Bowdon First United Methodist Cemetery, Bowdon, 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 32923]

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 32924]

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