Ellet, Alfred Washington

Life Span
to
Full name
Alfred Washington Ellet
Place of Birth
Bucks County, PA
Burial Place
El Dorado, KS
Birth Date Certainty
Exact
Death Date Certainty
Exact
Gender
Male
Race
White
Sectional choice
North
Origins
Free State
No. of Siblings
13
Family
Charles Ellet (father), Mary Israel Ellet (mother), Sarah J. Roberts (first wife - died 1875), Charles Ellet, Jr. (brother)
Occupation
Military
Farmer or Planter
Businessman
Other
Other Occupation
Civil Engineer
Relation to Slavery
White non-slaveholder
Military
Union Army
Date Event
The Union Army's Marine Brigade burns the town of Austin, Mississippi for sheltering rebel forces
Date Title
Report of Brigadier-General Ellet, commanding the Marine Brigade, on the burning of Austin, Missippippi, May 24, 1863
Date Title
Report of Brigadier-General Ellet, commanding the Marine Brigade, on the burning of Austin, Missippippi, May 24, 1863
How to Cite This Page: "Ellet, Alfred Washington," House Divided: The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College, https://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/index.php/node/39734.