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Confederate (CSV)

Lieutenant

William Elliott

(1838 - 1907)

Home State: South Carolina

Education: Beaufort College, Harvard University, University of Virginia Law

Command Billet: Battery Commander

Branch of Service: Artillery

Unit: Brooks (SC) Artillery

Before Sharpsburg

He was admitted to the bar in Charleston in 1861 but enrolled as First Lieutenant of Company K, 2nd South Carolina Infantry that year and transferred to the Brooks Light Artillery about 1 June 1862.

On the Campaign

He commanded the battery as senior officer present in Maryland.

The rest of the War

He was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel and was wounded at Bentonville, NC in March 1865.

After the War

He returned to Beaufort and established a law practice there. He was elected to the South Carolina State House of Representatives in 1866 and to the US House in 1887. He served several terms in the House to 1903.

References & notes

His service from the index to his Compiled Service Records. Personal details from his Congressional Biography1 and a bio sketch from the University of Virginia. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

09/03/1838; Beaufort, SC

Death

12/03/1907; Beaufort, SC; burial in Saint Helena's Episcopal Churchyard, Beaufort, SC

Notes

1   US Congress, Congressional Biographical Directory, Published c. 2000, first accessed 01 January 2002, <http://bioguide.congress.gov/biosearch/biosearch.asp>, Source page: /MemberDetails?memIndex=e000129  [AotW citation 25398]