Elisha Samuel Dyer

In 1860 he was a 19 year old farmer near Franklin in Heard County, GA. He enlisted in Bowdon, GA on 30 July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company B, Cobb's Legion Infantry.

He was wounded in the hip and shoulder in action at Crampton's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862 and captured.

He was treated at the US 6th Army Corps field hospital in Burkittsville, MD and was admitted to a hospital in Richmond, VA on 23 October and transferred to a Columbus, GA on 4 April 1863. He was in a Richmond hospital again due to his old wounds by 5 March 1864, furloughed for 30 days, then retired to the Invalid Corps on 2 May 1864.

In 1870 he was back at Franklin, GA farming near his brother Jehito (Nicholas Jehiel Matlock) and father Washington Dyer but by 1880 was a farmer in Marshall County, AL. In 1900 he was farming in Winston County, AL.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1900.

He married Mary Ann Taylor (1834-1913) in 1857 and they had 9 children.

05/1840 in GA

1905; in AL