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SGT Elijah McKnight

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SGT Elijah McKnight Veteran

Birth
Washington County, Indiana, USA
Death
3 Jul 1863 (aged 24)
Gettysburg, Adams County, Pennsylvania, USA
Burial
Gettysburg, Adams County, Pennsylvania, USA GPS-Latitude: 39.8193519, Longitude: -77.2318871
Plot
Indiana Plot, Section E, Site #10
Memorial ID
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McKnight, Elijah, Sgt.

ENLISTED; New Philadelphia (Washington), 22, s, 6-2, Farmer
27TH. INDIANA VOL INFANTRY REGIMENT

Promoted from Corporal.
Wounded at Antietam.
POW--captured by General Morgan at Bardstown Virginia between 12-20-1862 to 1-10-1863, Parolled during same period.
Returned to regiment.
Killed at Gettysburg in the charge--musket ball thru head. Buried Gettysburg National Cemetery.
Cousin of John McKnight Bloss, Joshua C Tatlock, Robert McKnight Tatlock of Company F.
McKnight, Elijah, Sgt.

ENLISTED; New Philadelphia (Washington), 22, s, 6-2, Farmer
27TH. INDIANA VOL INFANTRY REGIMENT

Promoted from Corporal.
Wounded at Antietam.
POW--captured by General Morgan at Bardstown Virginia between 12-20-1862 to 1-10-1863, Parolled during same period.
Returned to regiment.
Killed at Gettysburg in the charge--musket ball thru head. Buried Gettysburg National Cemetery.
Cousin of John McKnight Bloss, Joshua C Tatlock, Robert McKnight Tatlock of Company F.

Inscription

E. McKNIGHT.
CO. F. REGT. 27.



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