Elijah M. WICKHAM ¹

  General Notes:

1860 MO CENSUS, Gentry Co, Township 61: N. R. Wickham, 47, farmer, $800 real estate, $425 personal property, b. NY; "Margarette", 51, b. OH; Mary, 25, b. OH; Matilda, 24, b. OH; Elijah, 22, farmer, b. OH; John, farmer, 17, b. OH; Nathan, 15, farmer, b. OH, Francis, 13, b. OH; John Wilson, 53, farmer, $600 real estate, $80 personal property, b. OH; Catherine Martin, 26, $1000 personal property, $300 personal property, b. OH; Nile(?) Martin, male, 8, b. IA; Pullacks(?) Monroe, male, 3, b. MO.

AMERICAN CIVIL WAR SOLDIERS:
Name: Elijah Wickham
Side Served: Union
State Served: Missouri
Service Record: Enlisted as a Private.
Enlisted in Company G, Gentry H-Gd Regiment Missouri.

AMERICAN CIVIL WAR REGIMENTS:
REGIMENT: Gentry Co Home Gd Infantry Regiment Missouri
Regiment State: Missouri
Regiment Type: Infantry
Regiment Number: Gentry Co Home Gd
Regimental Soldiers and History: List of Soldiers

Regimental History

Battles Fought:
(none listed)

AMERICAN CIVIL WAR SOLDIERS:
Name: Elijah Wickham
Side Served: Union
State Served: Missouri
Service Record: Enlisted as a Corporal.
Enlisted in Company F, 33rd Infantry Regiment Missouri.

AMERICAN CIVIL WAR REGIMENTS:
REGIMENT: 33rd Infantry Regiment Missouri
Date of Organization: 1 Sep 1862
Muster Date: 10 Aug 1865
Regiment State: Missouri
Regiment Type: Infantry
Regiment Number: 33rd
Officers Killed or Mortally Wounded: 4
Officers Died of Disease or Accident: 2
Enlisted Killed or Mortally Wounded: 52
Enlisted Died of Disease or Accident: 229
Regimental Soldiers and History: List of Soldiers

Regimental History Thirty-third Infantry
MISSOURI (3-YEARS)

Thirty-third Infantry. -- Cols., Clinton B. Fisk, William A. Pyle William H. Heath; Lieut.-Cols., W. A. Pyle, W. H. Heath, W. J. McKee, Majs., W. H. Heath, George W. Van Beck, W. J. McKee, A. J. Campbell.

This regiment was recruited under the patronage of the Union Merchants' Exchange of St. Louis, and was known as the "Merchants' regiment." It was the first regiment mustered in under the call of 1862, and started for the front on Sept. 22.

During the remainder of that year it was on duty at various places within the state, but on Jan. 5, 1863, it reported at Helena, Ark., and took part in Gen. Gorman's White River expedition. In February it formed part of Gen. Ross' expedition against Fort Pemberton, Miss., where it was fod the first time under fire.

On April 8 it returned to Helena, where on May 5 it was placed in charge of the works. It remained at Helena until Jan. 28, 1864, when it was ordered to report to Gen. Sherman for the Meridian expedition. Here it was assigned to Veatch's division and remained in Mississippi until March 10, when Gen. Mower assumed command of the division, which was then ordered to join Gen. Banks in the Red River campaign.

In this campaign it was in the engagements at Fort DeRussy, Henderson's Hill, Pleasant Hill, Marksville, Bayou de Glaize, and a number of minor skirmishes. On May 24 the 16th corps returned to Vicksburg, and in June the regiment formed part of an expedition against Lee and Forrest in Mississippi, having previously been in the fight with Marmaduke at Old River Lake, Ark.

Subsequently it was in the battles at Tupelo, after which it was ordered to Memphis and then to St. Louis. On Nov. 24, it left St. Louis by water for Nashville, Tenn., where it arrived in time to assist in the decisive defeat and the subsequent pursuit of the Confederate forces under Gen. Hood.

It then was moved to Mobile, Ala, where it played an important part in the reduction of Spanish Fort and Fort Blakely, after which it was on provost guard duty at Selma, Alan until July 20, 1865, when it was ordered to St. Louis for muster out, and was discharged from the service on Aug. 10, 1865.

Source: The Union Army, vol. 4, p. 267

Battles Fought:
Fought on 4 Jul 1863 at Helena, AR.
Fought on 9 Apr 1864 at Pleasant Hill, LA.
Fought on 18 May 1864.
Fought on 6 Jun 1864.
Fought on 14 Jul 1864.
Fought on 15 Nov 1864.
Fought on 15 Dec 1864 at Nashville, TN.
Fought on 16 Dec 1864 at Nashville, TN.
Fought on 22 Dec 1864.
Fought on 30 Mar 1865.

U.S. VETERANS GRAVESITES, ca. 1775-2006:
Name: Elijah Wickham
Service Info.: CPL US Army
Death Date: 14 Apr 1863
Interment Date: 14 Apr 1863
Cemetery: Memphis National Cemetery
Cemetery Address: 3568 Townes Avenue Memphis, TN 38122
Buried At: Section H Site 4617