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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Stephen Benjamin Ellington

"Ben"

(c. 1838 - 1863)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: Cobb's (GA) Legion, Infantry Battalion

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 21 year old farmer living with his brother Sidney and family on their farm at Covington in Newton County, GA. He enlisted there on 1 August 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company A, Cobb's Legion Infantry on 5 August.

On the Campaign

He was in action at Crampton's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862 and was captured at Boonsboro, MD the next day.

The rest of the War

He was held at Fort Delaware to 2 October then sent to Aikens' Landing, VA for exchange. He was formally exchanged on 10 November and was home on furlough into November. He was probably killed in action at Chancellorsville, VA on 3 May 1863, though that information is not found among his service records.

References & notes

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

He married Millie Louise Vaughn (1842-1913) in February 1862.

Birth

c. 1838 in GA

Death

05/03/1863; Chancellorsville, VA; burial in Ellington Cemetery, Oxford, GA

Notes

1 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, Record Group No. 109 (War Department Collection of Confederate Records), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 33768]

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