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Submitted: 8/6/14 • Approved: 8/7/14 • Last Updated: 3/25/18 • R66144-G66142-S3
Ezekiel
CAPTAIN CSA
Companies F & H 16 Louisiana Infantry
Civil War Confederate
1840 - 1889
From Louisiana Archives ~ Ellis, Ezekiel J, 1st Lieutenant, Captain Companies F & H, 16th Louisiana Infantry. Enlisted September 29, 1861, Camp Moore, Louisiana. Present on all Rolls to February, 1863. Roll for May & June, 1863, Absent, sick, at Ringgold, Georgia, March 14, 1863, order of Dr Wilkinson. Rolls from July - September 1863. Present. On Rolls of Prisoners of War, Captured at Missionary Ridge, November 25, 1863. Received at Military Prison, Louisville, Kentucky, from Nashville, Tennessee, December 4. 1863. Forwarded. to Johnson's Island, Ohio, December 5, 1863. Released on Oath of Allegiance to the United States from Johnson's Island, Ohio, June 13, 1865. Residence Amite City, Louisiana, age 24, complexion light, hair light, eyes blue, height 5 ft. 9 in
Son of E P & Tabitha E Warner Ellis
Josephine
1842 - 1912
Daughter of Harvey and Juliette McKean Chamberlin
Photo courtesy of Bobby Cox
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