SGT Elijah McKnight Veteran

Birth: 23 Feb 1839
Washington County, Indiana, USA
Death: 3 Jul 1863 (aged 24)
Gettysburg, Adams County, Pennsylvania, USA
Burial: Gettysburg National Cemetery

Gettysburg, Adams County, Pennsylvania, USA Show Map GPS-Latitude: 39.8193519, Longitude: -77.2318871
Plot: Indiana Plot, Section E, Site #10
Memorial ID: 10653390 View Source

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.

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

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Added: Mar 22, 2005
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SGT Elijah McKnight VVeteran

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William Robertson McKnight Jr

Jane A Garriott McKnight

Samuel McKnight

Nancy McKnight Foster

Jacob M "Joe" McKnight

William G McKnight

Jane Matilda McKnight Bloss

James R. McKnight

Robert M McKnight

Daniel O. McKnight

Margaret McKnight

Sarah Elizabeth McKnight

Isaac Marion McKnight

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