Erastus J. Calliham

In 1860 he was an 18 year old living with his widowed mother and 6 siblings on their modest farm at Newbern/Covington, Newton County, GA. He enlisted there on 10 September 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company A, Cobb's Legion Infantry.

He was captured (possibly wounded) in action at Crampton's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

He was held at Fort Delaware to 2 October, then sent on to Aikens' Landing, VA. He was formally exchanged there on 10 November 1862. He was in a Richmond, VA hospital by 27 October, when he was furloughed home for 30 days. He was captured again, on 16 August 1864 near Front Royal, VA, briefly in the Old Capitol Prison in Washington, DC, then sent to the prison at Elmira, NY. He took an oath of allegiance to the United States there on 11 July 1865 and was released.

In 1870 he was a farm superintendent living on the John J Allen place at Macon in Bibb County, GA.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, as Erastus J Callahan. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860 & 1870. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

His brother George was also in Company A. Brother Lewis (b. 1844) enlisted in Company A in August 1862 and served to Appomattox; brother Henry (b. 1840) enlisted in the Company in August 1861 and died of disease at Yorktown, VA in December 1861.

c. 1842 in GA

1915; burial in Pine Grove Cemetery, Eatonton, GA