Life Span
to
Full name
Eli Long
Place of Birth
Woodford County, KY
Burial Place
Plainfield, NJ
Birth Date Certainty
Exact
Death Date Certainty
Exact
Gender
Male
Race
White
Sectional choice
North
Origins
Slave State
Education
Other
Other Education
Kentucky Military Institute
Occupation
Military
Military
US military (Pre-Civil War)
Union Army
Date Event
In central Alabama, Union cavalry push back an outnumbered General Nathan Bedford Forest at the Battle of Ebenezer Church
In a bloody assault, Union troops take the fortified armaments manufacturing town of Selma, Alabama
How to Cite This Page: "Long, Eli," House Divided: The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College, https://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/index.php/node/6113.