Elisha Bryant Name Search: Indexed Records from My Old Files

Elisha Bryant is one of my brick walls. I will post his information later, but here are some miscellaneous (probably unrelated) records associated with my search for Elisha.

These are indexed records found by searching for the name. I concentrated my search in Georgia, Tennessee, and Alabama, paying special attention to records related to Bryants in the center of that tri-state area (where those three states meet): Dade County, Georgia; Jackson County, Alabama; and Marion County, Tennessee. However, I found these Bryants who were in Southern states, but not necessarily in the three states or the specific counties I was concentrating on.

Elisha Bryant
3rd Cavalry Regt, Co. G
USA
Rank: Privt
Age: 22
Enlisted: 11    Mustered: Aug 31, 1863
Remarks:

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Confederate:

Elisha Bryant, Co. C, 43rd Infantry [Georgia, inferred]
Age not given
Year: 1862
Source: not known

Note: Men in the 43rd Infantry typically were from North Georgia. However, the counties listed for that regiment (Cherokee, Pickens, Forsyth, Hall, Jackson, and Banks) are not the ones I was really looking for for 'my' Elisha Bryant. I would expect him to be from in or near: Jackson Co., Alabama, Dade Co., Georgia, or Marion Co., Tennessee.

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Second citation for Confederate listing, above:
M266
Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served
in Organizations from the State of Georgia (NARA)

It does not give his company, though, just the regiment.
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CENSUS POSSIBILITY:

Publication Number: M653
Publication Title: 1860 U.S. Federal Census - Population
Content Source: NARA
State: North Carolina
County: Bertie
Minor Civil Division: [Blank]
Page: 135

Elisha Bryant, 36 (?) Overseer
Francis A Bryant 36
Nancy S. 11
Lucy E 5

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My own Elisha Bryant appears in census in Dade County, Georgia, in 1870 and 1880, with his (inferred) wife, Stacey, and their children. I have not yet posted those listings.

Selected Surnames (Cooper, Bryant, Howard, Littleton) on Confederate Memorial in West Hill Cemetery, Dalton, Whitfield County, Georgia

Selected Surnames (Cooper, Bryant, Howard, Littleton) on Confederate Memorial in West Hill Cemetery, Dalton, Whitfield County, Georgia:

Elisha J. Bryant, Co. E, 1st Ala. Cav.

Daniel C. Cooper, Co. A, 46th Ala.

John Cooper, Co. D, 41st Ala.

Robert Cooper, Co. D, 40th Tenn.

John Howard, Co. H, 22nd Ala.

John Littleton, Co. G, 41st Miss.

Subject: Death Records and Searches, Burials, Confederate Burials, Whitfield County Georgia

Elisha Bryant: one Confederate, One Union (probably two different individuals, unless a conscript who deserted)

Links to two records for (apparently) two different persons named Elisha Bryant (one Confederate, one Union). These records probably relate to two different individuals, unless it is the case of a conscript who deserted and joined the other side, which did happen with many East Tennessee and North Georgia Rebels.

"United States Civil War Soldiers Index, 1861-1865," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XKJC-8Z2 : 4 December 2014), Elisha Bryant, Private, Company C, 43rd Regiment, Georgia Infantry, Confederate; citing NARA microfilm publication M226 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 8; FHL microfilm 821,707.
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Elisha Bryant, Company G, 3rd Tennessee Cavalry, USA, Civil War: "United States General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KDPG-JBS : 3 April 2015), Elisha Bryant, 1890.