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Civil War Soldiers - Elliott
| Elliott, Washington L.,
brigadier-general, U.S. Army, was born in Carlisle, Pa., March 31,
1821. He was graduated at West Point in 1846 and served in the Mexican
war until the surrender of Vera Cruz, being promoted 1st lieutenant
July 20, 1847, and captain in July, 1854. In an engagement with the
Navajos in New Mexico, Sept., 1858, he commanded a company of United
States troops and distinguished himself. Being stationed in Missouri
at the outbreak of the Civil war, he took part in the engagements at
Springfield and Wilson's creek, and in Sept., 1861, he was
commissioned colonel of the 2nd Iowa cavalry. He was promoted major in
the regular army, Nov. 5, 1861, and for services at New Madrid, Mo.,
in March, 1862, at Island No. 10 in April and at Corinth in May, he
was severally brevetted. He was promoted brigadier-general of
volunteers in June, 1862, and in the following August became chief of
cavalry of the Army of Virginia and was wounded at the second battle
of Bull Run. Early in 1863 he was transferred to the command of the
Army of the Northwest, but in the summer of that year he was placed in
command of a division of the Army of the Potomac, then in the Army of
the Cumberland, and commanded the Federal troops at the battle of
Mossy creek, Tenn. He was subsequently chief of cavalry in the Army of
the Cumberland, and was conspicuous in the Atlanta campaign and in the
pursuit of Gen. Hood. He commanded a division in the 4th army corps in
the battles about Nashville, Tenn., in Nov. and Dec, 1864, and
received for gallant services in that campaign the brevets of
major-general of volunteers and brigadier- general in the regular
army, while for gallant and meritorious services in the field during
the war he was given the brevet rank of major-general U. S. A. He was
promoted lieutenant-colonel in the regular army, Aug. 31, 1866,
colonel in 1878, and was retired at his own request, March 20, 1879.
Gen. Elliott died in San Francisco, Cal., June 29, 1888. Source: The Union Army: A History of Military Affairs in the Loyal
States 1861-1865, Volume 8 Biographical, 1908
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