Civil War Records of Elbridge Conant

Service

Co. Regiment/Ship From To Residence Occupation Notes
E 6th MVI (9 months) Private; enl. Aug. 25, 1862; must. Aug. 31, 1862 died Feb. 10, 1863 Acton farmer

age 21; 

died of disease Feb 10, 1863 at Suffolk, Va.


Service Record (select pages from the National Archives): x
Service Ledger (Town of Acton): page 34-35 (PDF)

Pension

Co. Regiment Date Filed Type App. No. Cert. No. State Beneficiary/Remarks
E 6th MVI May 17, 1867 Mother 147 214 108 848   Eliza Conant
Sept. 27, 1866 Father 133 835 146 116   William Conant

Pension File (select pages from the National Archives):  15 pages (PDF*)

Grand Army of the Republic

x


Death

Date February 10, 1863
Place Suffolk, Va.
Age 21
Cause brain fever
Obituary  
Funeral  
Burial  
Survived by Eliza Conant; William Conant

Additional Information

Elbridge Conant, age 19, a farmer, is recorded as an inhabitant of Acton in the 1860 federal census, in household (dwelling no. 72) with Silas Conant, age 57, a farmer, and Elia Conant, age 56 (source:  1860 United States Federal Census. In: Ancestry.com [online database]).

The death of Elbridge Conant, Soldier in United States Service, and son of Silas and Eliza Conant, is recorded in the 1862/63 annual report for the Town of Acton (p. 20), and the 1863/64 annual report for the Town of Acton (p. 18)

Name included on the Acton Memorial Library Soldiers' Tablet, "Our Honored Dead."

 

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