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Confederate (CSV)

Private

James M. Ellis

(c. 1835 - 1862)

Home State: Florida

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 5th Florida Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 25 year old "gentleman" living with (his widowed mother?) Mary A Ellis, 2 younger siblings, and 12 slaves on their (probably cotton) plantation at Waukeenah in Jefferson County, FL. He enlisted at Monticello, FL on 11 December 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company A, 5th Florida Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was sent to a hospital in Frederick, MD on 6 September, left behind, and captured there on the 12th.

The rest of the War

He was in US Army General Hospital #1 in Frederick, MD and died there of disease on 30 September 1862.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. He's also on the Confederates In Frederick List.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860.

He married Sarah Jane Pudgen/Pridgen/Peidgen in August 1855.

Birth

c. 1835 in SC

Death

09/30/1862; Frederick, MD

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 34777]

2 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, Confederates In Frederick List , Published 2026, first accessed 28 March 2026, <https://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/confederates-in-frederick-list/>, Source page: #133 [AotW citation 34778]

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