Gilbert Molleson Elliott
Gilbert Molleson Elliott was born in Thompson, Connecticut, on October 7, 1840, to Jason and Ruth Elliott. His father was a clerk and shoemaker who owned $4,000 of personal property by 1860. The family moved to Brooklyn, New York, in the 1840s, and Elliott attended the New York City Free Academy. According to one early biographer, he “received the gold medal for excellence as the leader of his class at four successive commencements, and [he] delivered the valedictory oration at his graduation in 1861.”
 
After Confederate forces attacked Fort Sumter in April 1861, Elliott reportedly “unfurled the stars and stripes from the college building, and in his address declared he would defend his country’s honor with his life’s blood.” He had planned to study law after graduation, but he abandoned those plans to enlist in the Union army.
 
He received a commission as a 1st lieutenant in Company E of the 102nd New York Infantry on October 3, 1861. The regiment took part in the Battle of Antietam, the Battle of Chancellorsville, the Battle of Antietam, and the Chattanooga campaign. He was promoted to captain on October 5, 1862, and then to major on March 18, 1863. He was mortally wounded in the abdomen during the Battle of Lookout Mountain on November 24, 1863, and he died later that day.
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(2052)Elliot, Gilbert Molleson1840-10-071863-11-24
  • Conflict Side: Union
  • Role: Soldier
  • Rank in: 1st Lieutenant
  • Rank out: Major
  • Rank highest: Major
  • Gender: Male
  • Race: White

Documents - Records: 35

  • (6406) [recipient] ~ Henry M. Whittlesey Circular, 22 October 1862
  • (6407) [recipient] ~ Henry M. Whittlesey Circular, 18 October 1862
  • (6414) [recipient] ~ L. Keeffer to Gilbert M. Elliott, 6 October 1862
  • (6420) [recipient] ~ George B. McClellan Circular, 19 September 1862
  • (6421) [writer] ~ Gilbert M. Elliot Statement, undated
  • (6422) [associated with] ~ George W. Howland Statement, 23 September 1863
  • (6423) [writer] ~ Gilbert M. Elliot Statement, 22 September 1863
  • (6518) [associated with] ~ H. W. Marsh Receipt, 22 September 1863
  • (6519) [recipient] ~ John R. Edie Jr. Circular, 30 August 1863
  • (6520) [writer] ~ John W. Geary Special Order, 22 July 1863
  • (6521) [writer] ~ Gilbert M. Elliot Receipt, 20 July 1863
  • (6522) [recipient] ~ Woolsey R. Hopkins to Gilbert M. Elliot, 18 July 1863
  • (6524) [recipient] ~ Samuel Goodman to Gilbert M. Elliot, 1 July 1863
  • (6545) [recipient] ~ Henry W. Slocum Circular, 23 June 1863
  • (6546) [recipient] ~ Gilbert L. Parker to Gilbert M. Elliot, 16 June 1863
  • (6547) [recipient] ~ Thomas H. Elliott to Gilbert M. Elliot, 16 June 1863
  • (6548) [writer] ~ Gilbert M. Elliot Statement, 1863
  • (6549) [recipient] ~ Charles Thomas to Gilbert M. Elliot, 27 May 1863
  • (6558) [recipient] ~ George S. Greene General Order, 11 March 1863
  • (6570) [recipient] ~ Thomas H. Elliott to Gilbert M. Elliot, 27 December 1862
  • (6571) [writer] ~ John W. Geary Special Order, 23 December 1862
  • (6573) [recipient] ~ John W. Geary Circular, 18 December 1862
  • (6574) [recipient] ~ John W. Geary Circular, 16 December 1862
  • (6575) [recipient] ~ John W. Geary Circular, 12 December 1862
  • (6576) [recipient] ~ John W. Geary Circular, 9 December 1862
  • (6578) [recipient] ~ Woolsey R. Hopkins to Gilbert M. Elliot, 30 November 1862
  • (6579) [recipient] ~ David C. Steiner to Gilbert M. Elliot, 30 November 1862
  • (6582) [recipient] ~ Woolsey R. Hopkins to Gilbert M. Elliot, 17 November 1862
  • (6583) [recipient] ~ Thomas H. Elliott to Gilbert M. Elliot, 14 November 1862
  • (6584) [recipient] ~ Woolsey R. Hopkins to Gilbert M. Elliot, 13 November 1862
  • (6591) [recipient] ~ Thomas H. Elliott to Gilbert M. Elliot, 8 November 1862
  • (6592) [recipient] ~ Henry W. Slocum Special Order, 3 November 1862
  • (6593) [recipient] ~ John W. Geary Special Order, 31 October 1862
  • (6594) [recipient] ~ John W. Geary Special Order, 29 October 1862
  • (15002) [recipient] ~ John W. Geary Special Order, 31 October 1862

Places - Records: 2

  • (1596) [birth] ~ Thompson, Windham County, Connecticut
  • (1350) [death] ~ Lookout Mountain, Hamilton County, Tennessee

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Regiments - Records: 1

  • (278) [enlisted] [E, H] ~ 102nd New York Infantry
SOURCES

1850 and 1860 United States Federal Censuses, available from Ancestry.com; School Catalogs, 1765-1935, available from Ancestry.com; Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles, 1861-1865, available from Ancestry.com; Appletons’ Cyclopedia of American Biography, 1600-1889, available from Ancestry.com; Registers of Deaths of Volunteers, 1861-1865, available from Ancestry.com.