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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Elijah Lacy

(? - 1862)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 2nd Georgia Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

From Whitfield County, he mustered as Private, Company H, 2nd Georgia Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was probably mortally wounded and captured in action on the Maryland Campaign.

The rest of the War

He died on 16 October 1862 and was originally buried "in Hospital graveyard at Russer Spring". Probably reinterred at Hagerstown in about 1874.

References & notes

Burial information from Pruett.1 Service from Henderson.2

Death

10/16/1862; burial in Washington Confederate Cemetery, Hagerstown, MD

Notes

1   Pruett, Samuel, and Poffenberger & Good, Greg Farino and Western Maryland Regional Library (WMRL), Washington Confederate Cemetery, possible burials, Hagerstown (MD): WHILBR, 2010  [AotW citation 4467]

2   Henderson, Lilian, compiler, Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1861-1865, 6 vols., Hapeville (GA): Longino & Porter, 1959-1964, Vol. 1, pg. 422  [AotW citation 19047]