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J.D. Ellington
(c. 1837 - 1862)
Home State: North Carolina
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was a 23 year old living with his parents and 10 siblings on their small farm at Exchange in Warren County, NC. He enlisted in Warrenton, NC on 12 February 1862 and mustered at Camp Mangum near Raleigh, NC on 16 April as a Private in Company C of the 46th North Carolina Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was mortally wounded by a gunshot in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was briefly in the CS hospital in Culpeper, VA on 25 September, then was admitted to the CSA General Hospital in Charlottesville, VA on 26 September. He died there of wounds on 16 October 1862.
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. His picture from a photograph owned by descendant William Ellington and published in Greg Mast's State Troops and Volunteers, A Photographic Record of North Carolina's Civil War Soldiers (Volume 1, 1995).
Birth
c. 1837; Warren County, NC
Death
10/16/1862; Charlottesville, VA; burial in University of Virginia Confederate Cemetery, Charlottesville, VA
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 34531]