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A.P. Ellison
(1816 - 1867)
Home State: Georgia
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 16th Georgia Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was a 44 year old farmer near Cut Off in Walton County, GA. He enlisted along with his son Augustus at Monroe, GA on 19 July 1861 and mustered as 2nd Sergeant of Company F, 16th Georgia Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was left behind to care for the wounded and captured at Sharpsburg on 19 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was admitted to a hospital in Richmond, VA on 13 October, sent to private quarters, and furloughed on 18 October. No later military record found.
References & notes
His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 filed under A.E. Ellison, online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave, source also of his picture, from a photograph of unknown provenance contributed by Karen Winters.
He married Susannah Thompson (1829-1886) in November 1841 and they had 7 children.
Another son, Zachariah Thompson Ellison (b. 1846) enlisted in Company F in February 1864, but was captured at Gaines Farm, VA in June, a prisoner at Point Lookout, MD to 18 September, and died in a hospital in Richmond, VA on 1 December 1864.
Birth
06/03/1816; Walton County, GA
Death
09/09/1867; Walton County, GA; burial in Thompson Cemetery, Monroe, GA
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 35091]