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Federal (USV)

Private

Eleazer Pursley

(c. 1842 - 1863)

Home State: Indiana

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 19th Indiana Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was an 18 year old living with his parents and 8 younger siblings on their farm at Farmland in Randolph County, IN. He enlisted and mustered on 29 July 1861 as a Private in Company C, 19th Indiana Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in action at Turner's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

References & notes

Service basics from the Adjutant General.1 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860.

His brothers David Franklin (1839-1914) and Lafayette Pursley (1839-1933) were also in Company C.

Birth

c. 1842 in IN

Death

03/26/1863

Notes

1 State of Indiana, Adjutant General's Office, and William H.H. Terrell, Adjutant General, Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, 8 volumes, Indianapolis: (various) State Printers, 1865-1869, Vol. 4, p. 395 [AotW citation 33309]

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