85th New York Infantry

Elam was a POW at Andersonville, and was shot trying to escape from a troop train moving prisoners from Andersonville to Florence. I have numerous letters from Elam to his sister, Alice Wetmore Gilbert from the campaigns he was in..Even a letter from Andersonville...Elam's father, Dix, served in the NY 107th. A friend of Elam's, a Mr.Deyo, went back, after the war, and found the people who buried Elam. Deyo had Elam re-buried in Florence.

Francis Wixon [Wixson] was from Friendship N.Y. He was my great uncle.

I would like to know the circumstances of his capture at Plymounth, NC, and his death at Andersonville.

Enlisted as a Captain on 1 September 1861 at the age of 24. Commission in Company E, 85th Infantry Regiment New York on 29 November 1861. Wounded at Fair Oaks, VA. Discharged for promotion on 27 August 1862 at Washington, DC.

Jonathan was born in New York. He married Lucinda Creamer and apparently had no children. They were living in Olean, Cattarugus, New York when he enlisted at Elmira, New York 2 Dec 1861. He was mustered out 27 June 1865. He was a farmer and he and his wife spent some time in Walworth, Wisconsin with her sister Mahala Creamer Martin and her husband John Martin. He died in Portville, New York in 1904 at the age of 84 and is buried in the Allegany Protestant Cemetery, in Portsville along with his wife.

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Captured at Plymouth, NC Died while at ANDERSONVILLE, GA Aug.21 1864