Confederates
Name: Collins, Elbert
Rank: Pvt
Unit: 42nd GA Infantry, Company B
Born:
Died:
Militia age (if given):
1860 Census:
Militia District/Post Office: 405 Berkshire
Age: 38
Father:
Mother:
Wife: Jane
[information in brackets is presumed based on other sources because the individual hasn't been located in the 1860 census]
Family Information: (not from census)
Father:
Mother:
Wife: Jane Prewatt?
Buried:
Roster Information:
Collins, Elbert - private March 4, 1862. Captured at Baker's Creek, Miss. May 16, 1863. Exchanged at City Point, Va. July 6, 1863. Roll dated December 11, 1863, last on file, shows him transferred to Pioneer Corps. Pension records show he surrendered at Greensboro, N. C. April 26, 1865.(Born in Jasper County, Ga. in 1824)