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Federal (USV)

Private

Elijah Welty

(1834 - 1881)

Home State: Indiana

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 19th Indiana Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was a 26 year old farm laborer on Oliver P Davis' place at Newport in Vermillion County, IN. He enlisted and mustered on 29 July 1861 as a Private in Company I, 19th Indiana Infantry.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was discharged for disability and began receiving a veterans' pension in May 1863.

After the War

In 1870 he was farming his own place at Patricksburg in Owen County, IN.

References & notes

Service basics from the Adjutant General.1 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860 & 1870. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Hannah Rebecca Losser/Lesser in November 1869.

Birth

1834 in OH

Death

1881; Owen County, IN; burial in Olive Hill Cemetery, Morgan Township, Owen County, IN

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. 405 [AotW citation 33315]

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