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Federal (USV)

Private

Warren Ivory Ellis

(1840 - 1880)

Home State: Massachusetts

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 15th Massachusetts Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was a 19 year old farm worker on the John T Woodbury place in Winchendon, Worcester County, MA. He was a mechanic in Lancaster, MA when he enlisted as a Private in Company F, 15th Massachusetts Infantry in July 1861.

On the Campaign

He was wounded by a gunshot to his shoulder in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was admitted to a US Army hospital in Frederick, MD on 26 September 1862 and transferred out on the 29th. He transferred to the US Signal Corps on 1 January 1864 and was discharged on 12 July 1864.

References & notes

Service basics from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts1 with details from Harnwell.1 Wound and hospital details from the Patient List.3 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Emeline Viola Metcalf (1849-1915) in 1866 and they had 4 children.

Birth

12/20/1840; Fitzwilliam, NH

Death

07/21/1880; Fitzwilliam, NH; burial in Riverside Cemetery, Winchendon, MA

Notes

1 Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Adjutant General, Massachusetts Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines in the Civil War, 8 Vols, Norwood (MA): Norwood Press, 1931-35, Vol. 2, pp. 171 - 176 [AotW citation 5778]

2 Harnwell, Susan, The 15th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry in the Civil War 1861 - 1864, Published 1997, first accessed 01 January 1999, <http://www.nextech.de/ma15mvi/>, Source page: /Roster/p38.htm#i940 [AotW citation 28757]

3 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #4.594 [AotW citation 28758]

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