Matthew M. Elsberry

Matthew M. Elsberry

Second Corporal, Company A, 40th Regiment, Georgia Infantry, CSA

Promoted to Second Corporal March 10, 1862

Captured July 4, 1863 at Vicksburg, Mississippi

Paroled July 16, 1863 at Vicksburg, Mississippi

Delivered August 4, 1863 to Mobile Harbor by the S. S. Crescent

Died August 11, 1863

Buried at Old Shady Grove Baptist Church, Shady Grove Church Road, Dallas, Georgia

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