Location:
US Highway 301
Dade County, Georgia
N 34° 50.574 W085° 33.597
Date of Visit: April 13, 2013
Wm Henry Daniel
Co D
39 Ga Inf
CSA
Nathaniel Gass
Co A
3 Confederate
Cav
Elias Craig (Non-military tombstone)
Born 1829
Died
Aug 22 1863
Elias was born in 1829 and died August 22, 1863. He was son of James and Annie Craig, also buried here. It appears he joined Company C of the 2nd Battalion of Alabama Infantry in 1862. This company became Company H of the 7th Alabama Calvary. This was later known as the 9th Alabama Calvary (Malone’s). During the summer of 1863 Malones regiment was in Wheeler’s Calvary, Army of Tennessee and in numerous operations and engagements. Record of Elias’ death has not been found.
Brewer, Willis. 1962. Brief Historical Sketches of Military Organizations Raised In Alabama During the Civil War : reproduced from Willis Brewer's Alabama: her history, resources, war record, and public men, from 1540 to 1872 (1872) Montomery, Alabama: Alabama Civil War Centennial Commission. https://archives.alabama.gov/referenc/alamilor/mil_org.html.
Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Alabama. Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for Elias Craig, Malones 9th Alabama Calvary, Retrieved from at 3-Fold November 16, 2020 (http://www.fold3.com).
Stewart Sifakis, Compendium of the Confederate Armies: Alabama (Westminster, Maryland: Heritage Books, 1992), 37.
