Elijah M. Yarbrough

In 1860 he was a 30 year old farmer living with his wife, 3 daughters, and infant son at Rockdale in Randolph County, AL. He enlisted in Eastville, AL on 6 September 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company E, 13th Alabama Infantry.

He was in action with his company at Turner's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September, but not at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862, reason not given.

He was captured in the Wilderness, VA on 6 May (or at Spotsylvania Court House on 12 May) 1864 and was held at Point Lookout, MD to 2 August when he was transferred to the military prison at Elmira, NY. He made a statement on 15 April 1865 that he wished to take an oath to the United States - that he was a Union man and had "appeased the Rebel Authorities as long as possible" - and wanted to "go to Maryland where he had relatives residing." However, he was not released and instead died in the post hospital there on 17 July 1865.

His service from his Compiled Service Records 1 online from fold3, and the Alabama Archives.2 Personal details from the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave; his stone has him as E.S. Yarbeny.

c. 1830 in GA

06/17/1865; Elmira, NY; burial in Woodlawn National Cemetery, Elmira, NY